22 June | Thursday 14:00 | Katona József Library
The Kecskemét Animation Festival will once again present several books edited by Dr. Tamás Kollarik which were published in recent years. Another two volumes are added to the book series of the Hungarian Academy of Arts Research Institute of Art Theory and Methodology. Coordinated by film industry professional Tamás Kollarik, the research Institute carried out research to fill the gaps, and published unique film books over the past five years, which not only became important parts of the book collections of film professionals, but all of them are present in university education too. The books published in the Fundamenta Profunda series, titled Mozgókép és paragrafusok (“Motion Picture and Paragraphs”), Animációs körkép (“Animation Panorama”) and Film és jog (“Film and Law”), or the volumes of the Documenta Artis series, titled Magyar producerek I. (“Hungarian Producers –Vol. 1”), Magyar forgatókönyvírók I. (“Hungarian Screenwriters – Vol. 1”) and Magyar animációs alkotók I. (“Hungarian Animation Artists – Vol. 1”), are not only connected by the person and work of Kollarik, who authored and edited them, but also by the fact that the most known contemporary professionals and figures of the industry are among their authors and subjects, including Ferenc Mikulás, Ferenc Rófusz and Béla Ternovszky, just to mention a few names from the animation sector.
Moreover, another volume is added to the book series Magyarok Hollywoodban (“Hungarians in Hollywood”). As editors, the initiators and researchers of the programme, Tamás Kollarik and Sándor Takó brought back the autobiographies of Adolf Zukor, William Fox and Miklós Rózsa to Hungary, and edited the books of Gergely Hubai on Miklós Rózsa as well. They wrote amonograph presenting the work of Gábor Csupó, and with the contribution of Bálint Zágoni and other excellent researchers from Cluj-Napoca, a reference book discussing the work of the first great Hungarian producer, Jenő Janovics. The newest piece in the collection is an autobiography of another film legend of Hungarian origin: Pressburger Imre, egy forgatókönyvíró élete és halála (“Imre Pressburger, The Life and Death of a Screenwriter”).
At the Kecskemét event “Hungarian Animation Artists Vol. 2”, “Festival Panorama” and the book about Gábor Csupó will be presented.
