Igor Buharov, Ivan Buharov
Slow Mirror
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Original format 35mm, Super8
Year 2002-2009
Language(s) English, Hungarian
Artist(s) Ivan Buharov, Igor Buharov
Subtitles French, English
Booklet 20 pages (French, English)
Running time 108 min
Films
SLOW MIRROR (2007) 84'
MOTHMILK (2009) 9'
ONEHEADWORD PROTECTION (2006) 7'
HOTEL TUBU (2002) 5'
Description
"The anarchic, fractured and extremely surreal imagery of Ivan and Igor Buharov (Kornél Szilágyi and Nándor Hevesi) seems to perfectly embody the paradigm of 'marginality'. Hallucinations with a melancholic playfulness, haloed by the charm of those forgotten objects found in a grandmother's attic (like a children's drawing book, now unsettling), they reveal in precise terms a world perhaps unconsciously suspected but until now indescribable. They share something improvised and handcrafted. This comes not only from the rough-hewn quality of their superb visual textures, but often also from the people, objects and spaces that appear before the camera. Rather than star profiles, their casting consists of extraordinary ordinary people, inhabited faces who bring their own stories to the films. The props, which sometimes reappear conspicuously in different films, also seem to belong to the real world, endowed with their own existence that is poured back into the films. This contributes to giving this cinema the curious intimacy of children's games, in which ordinary people and places become strange and the strange becomes inherent to the everyday. The feverish and disturbing experience of watching a Buharov film has perhaps never been better described than in the catalogue of the 2008 edition of the Offscreen film festival: Getting lost in someone else's dream."
— Maximilian Le Cain