MAN SOMETIMES BECOMES AN IMAGE – FRAGMENTS FROM THE PORTRAIT OF ERNŐ KUNT

2006 / Hungary / 45 min

In 1994, at the age of 46, Ernő Kunt, one of the first founding masters of Hungarian anthropology, passed away. As a cultural researcher, he believed that understanding ourselves, others living next to us, and strangers is a complex task that must combine the methods of many sciences. An acknowledged ethnographer, psychologist, and thanatologist, he turned his attention to visual anthropology. He sought to understand ourselves better through the study of other cultures. In exploring the nature of the present,
he placed increasing emphasis on creative observation of visual communication and expression. In addition to researching, collecting, writing, and lecturing, he also drew, painted, photographed, and filmed. His work is marked by a number of seminal books, photo series, films, and the Institute of Cultural and Visual Anthropology, a school he founded at the University of Miskolc. The film is made up of fragments of various types and qualities, mostly shot by amateur filmmakers.

premiere
Friday, 8 September 2023 17:00
Béke screen
The screening is followed by Q&A.

Director:
GULYÁS Gyula, R. NAGY József