Tarr-60 [antikvár]

Mélange congénial - A Kind of Introduction The authors of this book honour a filmmaker, a distinguished artist of our time, who represents at the same time and in his person as a prism through various perspectives the actual artistic and social position of the film art itself. Béla Tarr and his nearly constant staff of artists (actors, nota bene the non-professional actors as such in many of his films, CO- authors, visual art and sound department members, music composition, costume, scenery, film editing and so on) realized during the last 36 years a memorable number of extraordinary films. His name represents a creative program, a high quality of the art of filmmaking, a challenge to the viewers in cinemas and among the film critics as well. Béla Tarr's films reflect our world, our lives in an impressive and moving way, in perspective, but free of any - natural or ideological - teleology. They simply show us the beauty and tragedy of our existence. Tarr's films are the results of an intensive team-work. The Tarr-team could therefore fairly be called the true creator of these films, just like in the case of other great film artists like (only to illustrate a much longer list) Federico Fellini, Ingmar Bergman, Miklós Jancsó, Michelangelo Antonioni or Andrej Tarkovskij. We used to speak about the films of different film directors, in case of Tarr we have to stress, that all "Tarr-films" are eminently societal productions. Tarr himself has admitted in an interview that he regards his lifework as "one film" - in fact, according to the themes and artistic means there are no significant breaks or radical changes between the single pieces of his ouvre, although the development of his art is unmistakeable. The results of