[Unicum] Bela Tarr's Man from London - Film-talk with Laszlo Rajk - Feb 27 Library of Congress

The European Division and the Library's Hungarian Language Table present 

City Space as a Vicious Circle - visual design of Bela Tarr's Man from London

Where

Library of Congress - James Madison Building - Pickford Theater (3rd Floor)

When

Thursday, February 27, 2014 12 p.m.

Who

Laszlo Rajk

Hungarian architect, film designer and human rights activist 

 

The well-known Hungarian architect, film designer and human rights activist László Rajk worked as production designer with Bela Tarr on his last two movies, The Man from London (2003-2007, nominated in Cannes) and The Turin Horse (won Silver Bear Prize of the Berlinale in 2011).

The lecture will focus on the design criteria, the methodology of decision-makings concerning the visual design. One could get information about the dilemmas of a designer how to realize a story, a visual concept and the director's visions in a given urban structure. Designer Rajk will reveal the hidden dialog between the film director and the production designer.

László Rajk (1949), a practicing architect, production designer, professor in production design at the University of Theater and Film in Budapest, and known also as a former dissident, human rights activist. As an architect and freelance artist became the member of the Hungarian avantgarde movement in the seventies. From 1975 he was a member of the Hungarian Democratic Opposition, in 1981 co-founded the underground AB Publishing House, and ran an illegal bookstore in his apartment called "Samizdat Boutique". In 1988 Rajk was one of the founders of the liberal party, the Alliance of Free Democrats (SZDSZ), and had been an MP for six years after the first free elections in 1990.

Since 1972 he has been the production designer of several Hungarian and international film productions, working with i.a. Béla Tarr, Miklós Jancsó, Szabolcs Hajdu, Márta Mészáros, Péter Gothár, Costa Gavras, John Irwin, Fatih Akin, Joseph Sargent, Vittorio Storaro.

More information: www.rajk.info, www.missingseries.hu, www.iprotest.hu

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