Old Film Strip Images Promote Budapest Autumn Festival

The images are varied, coming from Communist propaganda film strips made during the 1950s as well as from fairy tale film strips featuring Snow White and Jack and Jill.

"Since film plays an important part this year in the themes of the programmes selected, we would like to jolt fans leafing through the pages of our publications with familiar and unfamiliar images from film strips," the organisers say on their website.

The 16th BAF, to take place between October 12 and 21, will feature some of the best the international art scene as well as Hungary has to offer. Among the highlights of the festival will be a screening of Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau's 1922 silent film Nosferatu accompanied by a score composed for electronics and organ by the Austrian composer-organist, Wolfgang Mitterer. René Clair's 1923 silent film Paris qui dort will also be shown with music by the French composer Yan Maresz. In addition to the silent films, Russian films will be highlighted at the festival.

100%Zappa will be a full-day programme devoted to the great American composer and performer. It will feature musicians who played with Zappa as well as the Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Ádám Fischer.

On the stage, the choreographer Yasmeen Godder will return to the festival, and the Japanese company Pappa Tarahumara will perform their interpretation of Chekhov's Three Sisters."

To see the festival's full programme visit www.bof.hu

Source: culture.hu