HYPNOSIS
Portrait
The film quotes a poem by Zoltán Zelk that was popular as a nursery rhyme in Hungary during the 1970s. The poem tells of a child who falls asleep with visions of the familiar world falling apart, but soon finds reassurance in the comforting company of his mother. Things take a different turn in Fliegauf’s short: A young woman undergoing group therapy is overcome by images of incest. She sees herself as a good little girl at the mercy of her father’s perversion – isolated by her experience of pain, guilt and fear. Do these images come from the labyrinth of her memory? She visits her ageing father to confront him…
HYPNOS / HYPNOSE
HUN 2002 / 15 min
Director: Benedek Fliegauf
- Screenplay: Benedek Fliegauf
- Cinematographer: Péter Szatmári
- Cast: Masa Mészáros,Iván Talpas,Barbara Thurzó
- Producer: András Muhi
- Production Company: Inforg Stúdió - Budapest
The film quotes a poem by Zoltán Zelk that was popular as a nursery rhyme in Hungary during the 1970s. The poem tells of a child who falls asleep with visions of the familiar world falling apart, but soon finds reassurance in the comforting company of his mother. Things take a different turn in Fliegauf’s short: A young woman undergoing group therapy is overcome by images of incest. She sees herself as a good little girl at the mercy of her father’s perversion – isolated by her experience of pain, guilt and fear. Do these images come from the labyrinth of her memory? She visits her ageing father to confront him…
- Screenplay: Benedek Fliegauf
- Cinematographer: Péter Szatmári
- Cast: Masa Mészáros,Iván Talpas,Barbara Thurzó
- Producer: András Muhi
- Production Company: Inforg Stúdió - Budapest