The exhibition, called BBS 50 - Other Voices, Other Rooms - Attempt(s) at Reconstruction, was organised with the cooperation of the Balázs Béla Studio Foundation and the Hungarian National Film Archive. It will map the history of the studio and the artists who worked there with documentation and film screenings.
"The display will evoke the past 50 years of BBS in a way that enables younger generations to appreciate the age, the atmosphere in which these films were made, and to know who the emblematic figures of the studio's history were," say the exhibition's organisers. "Contemporaries familiar with BBS will have an opportunity to evoke, relive, or even reinterpret, the shared stories and experiences."
One of the Műcsarnok's rooms will be transformed into a screening room for the exhibition. Every afternoon at 2:00pm, a BBS film screened. More screenings will be shown on Thursday evenings as part of programmes that focus on the works of a different BBS artist every week. The programmes will run until 10:00pm as the museum extends its opening hours.
The launch of a book entitled BBS 50 --- Studies of the 50-year-old Balázs Béla Studio, edited by Gábor Gelencsér, will be launched to coincide with the exhibition. A series of DVDs is also being published, the first of which can already be purchased.
The director István Dárday called BBS a "time bomb". "The Studio was responsible for the creation of a public discourse, which it extended by degrees, almost from generation to generation, constantly pushing the political envelope. Neither consistently nor entirely consciously, it opposed the official film industry, where harsh political censorship was firmly established. How BBS worked was redefined by each new generation, according to their own aesthetic principles, way of thinking and theory. This was both its greatest merit and the truest mark of its democratization," he explained.
Source: Est.hu
