What if we could escape our daily routine for a moment ? A step, just one, that could move us miles away from here, in a second; a flash step. A Shunpo.
A young, much loved, beautiful girl suffers from a hit and run on the streets of New York City. Her lifeless body is brought to the morgue.
She wakes up among the dead dregs of society. Surrounded by the corpses of junkies, prostitutes, homeless, and gangsters, she is terrified and attempts to escape...
For several years now, the polish contemporary dance scene has been essentially formed by young artists who create solo performances with modest financial resources. A circle of dance theorists coined the term "generation solo". "Soloists" is a perso...
It carries no memory or time, it drifts... One can see more than one view and more than one function. It is defined as a limited process In an endless change, where monotony does not exist... Assuming level zero at some points It also has critical stages where it reaches maximum levels, and then beg...
1986, Hungarian village. Cleaning rags arrive to the local factory: used clothes from the forbidden but desired West. Women of the village gather in the secret of the night to open up the container and indulge their craving for glamorous Parisian fashion. Ecstatic joy replaces the dull grayness of t...
In a village in East Hungary, Dani, an adolescent boy, grown up in an orphanage, falls in love with his classmate. He is trying to get close to her with an obscene and grotesque way of behavior. He doesn't understand the rules of this game of love, such knowledge has never been taught to him.
A young woman named Adél crashes her bicycle into Lörinc’s car, and he is forced to stay with her for the thirteen minute interval before the ambulance arrives in order to keep her awake and conscious.
A guest arrives at a man’s flat. They are up to something. They have both waited for a long time. They have the same goal, but for different reasons.
They are afraid of each other. They are happy to see each other. A mind-game of two men in a small apartment.
A sudden change stirs up the decent post-officer's everyday routine: their new uniform in the office is a cat suit. "Dresscode" is a satyric story about the revolt of the 51 years old employee, Marika.
Master Truong, the old Fearless of the emperor, is nearing the end of his life and he has not yet found his successor.
The country has to be prepared for war and the Emperor is furiously impatient. He gives him two weeks to find it.
Master Truong goes to visit a famous General (Master Wing) who ...
Groningen, the Netherlands. Jos wakes up in a homeless shelter, his regular place to spend the night. It's almost ten o'clock in the morning. Street life commences, regardless of the weather. Whether he's sick or not, whether he wants to or not: Jos has to leave. Like all other days. The shelter wil...
It’s been more than ten years now that fine artist Imre Bukta, one of the leading figures in Hungarian contemporary art, moved back to his home village Mezőszemere in Heves county. “Another Hungary” attempts to show the very special and very sensitive way Bukta looks at the world around him...
In 2008, a 25-year-old Estonian junior sergeant Andrei lost his right leg during the mission in Afghanistan. Two years later, the young man walks with the help of his artificial leg among other soldiers in the woods, planning to rejoin the mission. The film follows Andrei’s objectives and the ...
A crazy horse runs away, cats play, a man departs this life, all on the same bridge over a dried river. "The Bridge" is a film about contemporary life in an almost deserted Romanian village, suddenly brought to life by Death. In a poetic observational form, it captures the energy of nature’s i...
The breath of a jogger, a demolished anthill, a puddle, a sandwich left on a bench, a squirrel ... fragments of lives that take us for a walk around the lake, with the words and music of "Carl & les hommes-boîtes".
In Louisiana lives Billie Broussard, she is black, young and ingenuous. She discovers that love gives birth to drama. Dramas that may have torn her down had she not believed in ancient Voodoo power. Billie becomes a woman and gets her revenge. Yet keeps on singing…
The film was produced in a oneshot-movement.
In a hotel hallway, the camera plunges into the microcosm of the hotel corridor carpet.
(Quote from the movie "THE SHINNING") between crystal structures and inhabitants of this world, we see an American house dust mite at work ...
What is memory loss? In the labyrinth of fear, a stranger becomes a close person and home turns into a trap. Groping her way down the track of familiar objects and shapes, the character is trying to go back to the life that used to be her own. This latest clay animation from Izabela Plucińska is a c...
On the battle fields of the First World War, the nurse Simon patches up the shattered faces of the infantrymen with love letters. These words from beloved women have the power to heal the wounds of these paper soldiers. Simon himself seems immune to injury. Untouched by the attacks and unblemished i...
See short version below.
Abstract ink drawings seem to come out of nowhere. Following a secret choreography, they take on characteristics and moods of the music and narrate a story that appears to be laid out in the music. The interplay of timid encounters and dynamic pursuits, the agile lightne...
The Devil arrives at a deserted no man's land, where he finds a video game machine. The game's purpose is too kill all as many teddy bears as possible. Will the bears be able to escape? This is a video clip for the heavy metal group "Betzefer", made in the classic technique of puppet animation.
Ada the Crow dreams of getting married. She has come to the conclusion that it is important to be dressed up as sharply as possible, everything else happens all on its own – the pastor always marries the girl in the fanciest dress to the handsomest boy!
At the same time, Otto the Architect is...
Blackwood is an animated series full of black humor and absurdity, and based on old and dark folk tales and the classics of the early horror literature. The first episode is the adaptation of an E. A. Poe short story.
The relationship of the master and the follower carries all those values through generations that were preserved in traditions during centuries. The young pupil turns into an adult in the presence of music, while discovering the beauty of fabricating instruments.
Applying an unconventional narrative, the film presents a subjective world through 47 scenes. The small events, interlaced by associations, express the irrational coherence of our surroundings. The surreal situations are based on the interactions of humans and nature.
Animation about the joy of love and creation, the play between the male and the female essence visualized in a metaphoric, simbolic way, the ferility (creativity) which is ours to give birth to a new life, a new work of art, like gods, artists and women. Everything is erotic but sacred and is expres...
On 4 October 2010 a wall of No 10 reservoir of the Ajka Alumina Plant gave way, inundating the nearby settlements with 1m cubic meter thick alkaline red mud, destroying hundreds of homes, killing 10 locals and injuring several others. In this short a...
There are certain folks living on Earth one has never even heard of. They aren't unknown out of hiding, or because they are too little to be noticed. They were not neglected when listing all folks of the world because of living in rainforests. They ...
Friends from different countries are going home in the evening. Suddenly it starts to rain so they run under a bridge. While sitting down there, one of them sings a song. The combination of the music and the rainy town evoke up different nostalgic memories in each of them.
The animation is basicly about life itself, wich starts by planting a seed, in this case - the egg. The procedure of growing demonstrates the necessity and acceptence of changes.
The move is based on drawing and music improvisations; there isn't any definite narrative story in it. It uses fine art methods and means. The motifs and the different symbolical, formal and content elements have multiple meanings; thus enhance an interpretation which is subjective for the receptor of the viewer.
Death does not select, man does. Set in Budapest, Godly Shift offers an eerie insight into the everyday lives of a rather extraordinary ambulance crew. The films main character is Milan, a young refugee from the Balkan War, who joins a team of paramedics but inadvertently ends up involved in the fun...
Dunaszerdahely volt a MEDIAWAVE történetének első nemzetközi helyszíne. Nem mi kezdeményeztük, ilyesmi eszünkbe nem jutott volta a kilencvenes évek vége táján, hanem az ott prosperáló, egyetemista NFG-1-FILM elnevezésű filmes csoport. Először megjelentek nyári táborainkban, friss és izgalmas filmeket készítettek. Majd beállítottak azzal, hogy mi lenne, ha ők is csinálnának egy MEDIAWAVE alhelyszínt Szerdahelyen.
E kezdeményezés persze tetszett nekünk is. Aztán az NFG-sek felnőttek, családot alapítottak, munkát találta, szétestek, ahogy ez illik egy fiatal közösségnél, de magmaradt utánuk az általuk alapított NFG alternatív klub, ami a mai napig prosperál.
A MEDIAWAVE-s helyszín azóta is, hullámzó lelkesedéssel, de fennáll, elsősorban a doyen Vida Igor eltökéltsége révén. Idén azonban újabb lendületet kapott, mert a régi NFG-es egyike (Héger Pityu) közreműködésével egymásra találtak az öreg és fiatal progresszív szerdahelyi erők. Így ismét testes program jött össze Szerdahelyen.
In Ács the tradition of dressing up a maypole is slightly unusual since here an acacia tree will be selected to be decorated with pine branches. The venue is the old barn that has been lately transformed into a teahouse run by fine artist Tamás Tóth and his wife, but as scene of various concerts and cultural programmes it is also considered as cultural center of the area.
The horse owners of Ács will unite under Tamás Tóth and march with their carriages, carts and wagons accompanied by musicians and festival guests to the neighboring Fort Monostor in order to take the maypole and the bride to the venue safely.
Last year the traditional maypole ceremony took place on the opening day – this year it’ll be on the second day of the Gathering. However, we’ll still have the chance to pay our respects to the girls of the festival. On our new celebration of fertility, rebirth and blossoming we’ll be trying to win their favour and sympathy just the way we’ve been doing it for 23 years. We do hope that the new name „Spring Buzz” will impress, encourage and give rise to thoughts. Voluntary helpers are welcome to setting up the maypole as well as girls are expected to lend a hand in fastening the ribbons. The performers of the festival will surely take part in this ritual. Click here - maypole ceremony, MEDIAWAVE 2013 (In case of bad weather the event will be cancelled.)
The Garabonciás – being established in 1986 - is a nationally and internationally well-known dance group from Komárom. It has been directed almost from the start by Klára Gábor folk dance teacher awarded with “Young Master of Folk Art” Prize. The group’s artistic manager is László Pőcze.
For more than a quarter of a century the group has been constantly participating in regional and national folk dance meetings and various contests for preserving traditions.
After the maypole ceremony you can listen to traditional rural folkmusic originated from Upper Hungary and Transylvania. This year the festival’s highlight is introducing the versatility of living in Upper Hungary. The Ritka Magyar Folkband considers that traditional Hungarian folk music is the most perfect and clearest music ever developed. Therefore, the musicians of the band also feel responsible for maintaining the pureness of this music while forwarding it to the following generations. Concert video from MEDIAWAVE 2014 - Festival, Fort Monostor, Komárom, Hungary, concert video from Pajtafestival 2014, Kiscsösz, Hungary.
The Occupy movement is an international protest movement against perceived social and economic inequality, its primary goal being to make the economic and political relations in all societies less vertically hierarchical and more flatly distributed...
But what does music have to do with it?
Improvised music and it´s exploding energies will become the best demonstration tools. The project will work as a symbolic occupation of the sound waves and the acoustic spaces of the festival by the power of free-flowing music. OCCUPY MEDIAWAVE´14 aims to be a symbolic action/demonstration in the spirit of the occupy movement, where the participating musicians turn to be activists in different, freely set up formations (ad-hoc bands) and will play very short, action-/performance-like free music at different locations at the festival area.
We discovered the throaty singer-musician Artem back in 2007 while we were visiting the Altai in South Siberia. Later we managed to take him to the MEDIAWAVE and he gave a lot of memorable concerts for many of us. Several years have passed and now we are excited to see how far he’s got in his musical development. Gyuri Ferenczi and his companions will welcome him in their band and on their workshop, so we can expect many interesting issues to evolve during his presence.
György Ferenczi and his band can be considered as pillars of MEDIAWAVE for many years. At first their concerts appear to be quite loose, but in a certain way they are extremely disciplined. Gyuri Ferenczi has conducted a number of various music workshops for young musicians so far and there’s no doubt that they significantly contributed to the atmosphere of last year’s GATHERING when they played together with Tibetan and Chinese musicians.
The Swiss percussionist Gilbert Paeffgen and his band were guests of the MEDIAWAVE Festival ten years before, in 2004. This time he comes with Susanna Dill and their duo promises to be a really sophisticated and delicate one. The lineup is also extraordinary: accordion and cimbalom… We Hungarians used to believe that cimbalom is our traditional instrument – now we have to face the fact that musicians from other countries can play it well and very subtly indeed.
Playing blues-based soul & funk music, Raphael Wressnig and Enrico Crivellaro were guests of the MEDIAWAVE Festival back in 2007. At the time we really enjoyed this mighty bloody band playing the Hammond organ and the guitar. No wonder that we got excited as they reappeared on the music scene. It would be quite surprising if the dancing part was left out at the end of their performance.
Stevan Kovacs Tickmayer reflected upon the circumstances in which the band was established: „On the occasion of the Mediawave Festival in 2011 we had the chance to revive our former musical collaboration. None of us were disappointed about the results as we concluded that after the long silence our music sounded more mature and accomplished. Unfortunately, this creative get-together was clouded by an extremely sad event: the death of our master and instructor, György Szabados. Right then and there we decided to continue this cooperation in order to maintain and develop the conceptions of Szabados. The name Trió Kontraszt (Trio Contrast) has a multiple background. First of all, I thought about Bartók’s Contrasts (scored for clarinet-violin-piano trio and dedicated to Benny Goodman and József Szigeti), then I reminded myself of the contrastful elements characteristic to our music (we are all versatile musicians and composers) and of our music language and heritage that is completely contrasted to recent tendencies of free music.”
Jimmy Rogers – Walking by Myself, Buddy Guy – Mustang Sally & Midnight Train, The Blues Brothers – Soul Man & Sweet Home Chicago, B.B.King – The Thrill is Gone, Deák Bill – Ha megérint a blues, Gary Moore – Cold Day in Hell, John Mayall – A World of Hurt… What a nice playlist!
Uncle Laci, being a warm-hearted and exceptional musician, is the doyen of the music life in Győr, Finally, he has the chance to reinterpret his favourite classics in his own way („Drapán-like”, as we call it), considering them as basics of his own musical attitude: DRAPAN’S BLUE DEVILS. Let’s hear and see it!
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Dunaszerdahely volt a MEDIAWAVE történetének első nemzetközi helyszíne. Nem mi kezdeményeztük, ilyesmi eszünkbe nem jutott volta a kilencvenes évek vége táján, hanem az ott prosperáló, egyetemista NFG-1-FILM elnevezésű filmes csoport. Először megjelentek nyári táborainkban, friss és izgalmas filmeket készítettek. Majd beállítottak azzal, hogy mi lenne, ha ők is csinálnának egy MEDIAWAVE alhelyszínt Szerdahelyen.
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In Ács the tradition of dressing up a maypole is slightly unusual since here an acacia tree will be selected to be decorated with pine branches. The venue is the old barn that has been lately transformed into a teahouse run by fine artist Tamás Tóth and his wife, but as scene of various concerts and cultural programmes it is also considered as cultural center of the area.
The horse owners of Ács will unite under Tamás Tóth and march with their carriages, carts and wagons accompanied by musicians and festival guests to the neighboring Fort Monostor in order to take the maypole and the bride to the venue safely.
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The Garabonciás – being established in 1986 - is a nationally and internationally well-known dance group from Komárom. It has been directed almost from the start by Klára Gábor folk dance teacher awarded with “Young Master of Folk Art” Prize. The group’s artistic manager is László Pőcze.
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After the maypole ceremony you can listen to traditional rural folkmusic originated from Upper Hungary and Transylvania. This year the festival’s highlight is introducing the versatility of living in Upper Hungary. The Ritka Magyar Folkband considers that traditional Hungarian folk music is the most perfect and clearest music ever developed. Therefore, the musicians of the band also feel responsible for maintaining the pureness of this music while forwarding it to the following generations. Concert video from 
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We discovered the throaty singer-musician Artem back in 2007 while we were visiting the Altai in South Siberia. Later we managed to take him to the MEDIAWAVE and he gave a lot of memorable concerts for many of us. Several years have passed and now we are excited to see how far he’s got in his musical development. Gyuri Ferenczi and his companions will welcome him in their band and on their workshop, so we can expect many interesting issues to evolve during his presence.
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Stevan Kovacs Tickmayer reflected upon the circumstances in which the band was established: „On the occasion of the Mediawave Festival in 2011 we had the chance to revive our former musical collaboration. None of us were disappointed about the results as we concluded that after the long silence our music sounded more mature and accomplished. Unfortunately, this creative get-together was clouded by an extremely sad event: the death of our master and instructor, György Szabados. Right then and there we decided to continue this cooperation in order to maintain and develop the conceptions of Szabados. The name Trió Kontraszt (Trio Contrast) has a multiple background. First of all, I thought about Bartók’s Contrasts (scored for clarinet-violin-piano trio and dedicated to Benny Goodman and József Szigeti), then I reminded myself of the contrastful elements characteristic to our music (we are all versatile musicians and composers) and of our music language and heritage that is completely contrasted to recent tendencies of free music.”
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Jimmy Rogers – Walking by Myself, Buddy Guy – Mustang Sally & Midnight Train, The Blues Brothers – Soul Man & Sweet Home Chicago, B.B.King – The Thrill is Gone, Deák Bill – Ha megérint a blues, Gary Moore – Cold Day in Hell, John Mayall – A World of Hurt… What a nice playlist!.jpg)
Participants of the session will be musicians as well as invited guests of the Festival.
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