Béla Tarr

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Béla Tarr at the Sarajevo Film Festival , 2007

Béla Tarr [ ˈbeːlɒ tɒrː ] (born July 21, 1955 in Pécs ) is a Hungarian film director . For many critics, his opus Magnum Satanstango is one of the most important works in film history.

Life

At the age of 16 he made his first attempts as an amateur filmmaker, to which the Béla Balázs film studios finally became aware. This funded his film Családi tüzfészek in 1979 , which was influenced by socialist realism . From his television adaptation of Macbeth (1982), which consists of only two shots, this style changed. Tarr turned away from realism and from then on was strongly influenced by Andrei Tarkowski . Characteristic of his films were black and white, abstract images and long settings often that the entire length of a 35mm last Pulley (approximately eleven minutes). So is The Man from London in two and a half hours from only 29 settings.

The films of Béla Tarr are often attributed to the “remodernist cinema” that the American filmmaker Jesse Richards began to promote in the late 1990s. According to Richards, every moment in the film Satanstango is a good example of the heightened awareness of the moment: Satanstango begins with a seven-minute, several hundred-meter-long tracking shot that follows a herd of cows emerging from a shed through a shabby Hungarian village. It is "terrible" that "these types of moments in modern cinema are largely ignored".

All of his films from Damnation (1988) were made in collaboration with the writer László Krasznahorkai . Other permanent employees are or were Mihály Víg (music), Gyula Pauer (set and costume design), Gábor Medvigy (camera) and Tarr's wife Ágnes Hranitzky (editor and co-director). His adaptation of Krasznahorkai's novel Satanstango , a 450-minute black and white film that Tarr worked on for around seven years, caused a great international stir . The film is an extremely literal adaptation of Krasznahorkai's novel of the same name. Tarr always emphasized that the film lasts exactly the same amount of time it takes to read the novel, seven and a half hours. Satanstango premiered in the Forum of the Berlinale in 1994 and has since been counted among the most important films of the 1990s by many critics and filmmakers in Europe and America. Besides Jesse Richards, Fred Kelemen or IJ.Biermann about the American filmmaker named Gus Van Sant meeting with Tarr's films frequently as an important influence on his own work, especially on the films from Gerry began when Van Sant, in long uncut settings and To tell time differences. Van Sant's Elephant avowedly uses the same narrative dramaturgy as Satanstango . Tarr's films were so close to the actual rhythms of life that Van Sant compared watching the films to seeing the birth of a "new cinema": "[Béla Tarr] is one of the few truly visionary filmmakers."

After years of difficulties in production, Tarr was represented in the competition at the 60th Cannes Film Festival with his film The Man from London , an adaptation of the novel L'Homme de Londres by Georges Simenon , costing around five million euros . In 2009 he announced that he wanted to direct his last film. The Turin horse ( A Torinói ló ), whose world premiere took place in the competition program of the 2011 International Film Festival in Berlin, earned him the Grand Jury Prize . He also received the Konrad Wolf Prize in 2011 .

Tarr studied at the University of Film and Theater in Budapest . Since 1990 he has been a guest lecturer at the German Film and Television Academy in Berlin. His students there included u. a. Fred Kelemen and Ingo J. Biermann . Tarr got involved early on in the Sarajevo Film Festival, which was founded in 1995, and in 2013 founded the Sarajevo Film Factory in the city in collaboration with the private Sarajevo school of science and technology.

In 2018 he was appointed to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences , which awards the Oscars every year.

Filmography

  • 1978: Hotel Magnezit (short film)
  • 1979: Családi tüzfészek
  • 1981: Szabadgyalog
  • 1982: Macbeth (TV movie)
  • 1982: Panel Kapcsolat
  • 1985: Öszi almanac
  • 1988: Damnation (Kárhozat)
  • 1990: Az utolsó hajó , segment from City Life
  • 1990: Utolsó hajó (short film)
  • 1994: Satanstango (Sátántangó)
  • 1995: Journey in the Plains (Utazás az Alföldön) (short film)
  • 2000: The Werckmeister Harmonies (Werckmeister harmóniák)
  • 2004: Prologue , segment from European Visions (Visions of Europe)
  • 2007: The Man from London (A Londoni férfi)
  • 2011: The Turin Horse (A Torinói ló)
as an actor

Awards (selection)

literature

  • Hans-Joachim Schlegel: Béla Tarr: Looking inside, in: Together. Yearbook of the Hungarian Cultural Institute in Stuttgart, ed. by Tibor Keresztury. Stuttgart 2008.
  • Hans-Joachim Schlegel: The naked person. Filming on the edge of nowhere: Béla Tarr, in: "Film-Dienst" 2009, no. 23
  • Tarr - 60: studies in honor of a distinguished cineast. Edited by Eve-Marie Kallen. Underground Kiadó és Terjesztő Kft, Budapest Dec. 2015.

Web links

Commons : Béla Tarr  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Result of the Sight & Sound survey 2012 on the BFI website
  2. ↑ a b Jesse Richards via Remodernist Films , accessed January 19, 2011
  3. ^ Essay by Gus Van Sant in the catalog of the MoMA retrospective of Béla Tarr's work in 2001, accessed on January 19, 2011
  4. ^ Statement by Béla Tarr on the production of The Man from London ( Memento from February 25, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) at the Filmunió Hungary
  5. ↑ cf. Prizes of the International Jury at berlinale.de, February 19, 2011 (accessed February 19, 2011)
  6. ↑ Claudia Lenssen: "We show people on the street" , Interview, in: TAZ , August 30, 2014, p. 24
  7. ↑ Academy invites 928 to Membersphip . In: oscars.org (accessed June 26, 2018).
personal data
SURNAME Tarr, Béla
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian film director
DATE OF BIRTH July 21, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Pécs