Format VOD
Original format 35mm, Super 8, 16mm, HD
Year 2002-2009
Language(s) Hungarian, English
Artist(s) Igor Buharov, Ivan Buharov
Subtitles English, French
Running time 105 min
Films
SLOW MIRROR (2007) 84'
MOTHMILK (2009) 9'
ONEHEADWORD PROTECTION (2006) 7'
HOTEL TUBU (2002) 5'
Description
The anarchic, fractured and extremely surrealistic images of Ivan and Igor Buharov (Kornél Szilágyi and Nándor Hevesi) seem to perfectly answer 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 book of children's drawings, now disturbing), they reveal in precise terms a world perhaps unconsciously suspected but hitherto indescribable. They share something improvised and handcrafted.
This comes not only from the rough-hewn character 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 that bring their own history to the films. The props, which sometimes reappear conspicuously in different films, also seem to belong to the real world, and are 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 troubling experience of watching a Buharov film has perhaps never been better described than in the catalog of the 2008 edition of the Offscreen film festival: "Getting lost in someone else's dream."
— Maximilian Le Cain