Learned Spontaneous Movements

director: Dóra Maurer

original title: Megtanult önkéntelen mozgások

year: 1973

running time: 9 min.

synopsis

Four static shots of a girl reading a book accompanied by a voice reading a text in Hungarian are presented in four, increasingly complicated, auditory-image variations that encourage the viewer to learn new, spontaneous ways of watching the film.

biography

Dóra Maurer (* 1937) is a prominent Hungarian artist, teacher, and curator. Her work, which was recently exhibited in a solo exhibition at the Tate Modern, includes sculptures, paintings, graphic designs, performances, photography, and films. In her films, she tends to focus on the ways of setting up, varying, and disrupting structures composed of diverse elements – from everyday gestures to abstract patterns.

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Dóra Maurer

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