8th October 2016

synopsis

The title of the film is the date on which the editorial staff of the Hungary´s largest opposition newspaper, Népszabadság, was fred. The filmmaker tore up copies of that day’s issue, layered them, and then turned them into an urgent collage expressing his yearning for the free expression of opposition viewpoints. The visible edges of the film emphasize the impossibility of presenting information in a complete context.

“Our film is a simple political statement. It was made in two days, right after the shut-down of Népszabadság.” B. Máté, P. Lichter

biography

Péter Lichter (1984) is a Hungarian documentary filmmaker, poet and editor of the cinema magazine Prizma. He has used found footage to create short poetic films since 2002. The Ji.hlava IDFF previously showed his films Negative History of Hungarian Film (2010), a fictional recollection of an alternative history of Hungarian cinema, and Non-Places: Beyond the Infinite (2016), a collage of highways, reststops and similar non-places.

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