Hungarian Animation

Meets the Hungarian Animation!

ANIDO have imported and distributed animation from the foreign countries to Japan .

Recently, we have distributed four programs of Hungarian short animation films. During to produce DVD and to bring it to market, it had been offered to screen in the movie theater as A and B programs selected from three animators' films and "Hungarian Folk Tales".

Program - A

		The Films by Keresztes Dora Moon Film　1979　5min Magic 1985　5min One-Two-Three　2005　4min

		The Films by Maria Horvath The Miracles of Night 1982 9min Door No.8 1983 1min Door No.9 1983 1min Signal films of KAFF1985-1995 3min Stills(Drawings about a Landscape of a Life) 2000 6min

		The Films by Istvan Orosz Mind the Steps!　1989　6min The Garden　1993　6.5min Cry!　1995　3min

		Hungarian Folk Tales The Poor Man and His Fiddle/ Dyer's Apprentice Seven at One Blow The Round Stone The Prince who Turned The Poor Man and His Horse

Program Ｂ

		The Films by Keresztes Dora Faces　1996　4min Golden Bird　1989　13min Smiling Sad Willow Tree　2001　3min De Profundis　2002　3min


		The Films by Maria Horvath Greentree street 66. 2002 8min
		The Films by Istvan Orosz Black Hole - White Hole　2001　4min Time Sights　2004　10min

		Hungarian Folk Tales The Little Rooster The Slipper Tearing Angel Lambs Szusza The Lamb with Golden Hair The Magic Padlock Cerceruska

Artist's introduction

	Dora KERESZTES Dora Keresztes graduated from the Hungarian University of Arts And Design (now Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design) in Budapest as pupil of Istvan Balogh, Gyorgy Haiman, Janos Kass and Erno Rubik. She started her carrier with book designs and illustrations mainly for children and contemporary Hungarian literature. Later on the film and theater posters came to the center of her interest and she was art director and designer of the "Muses" Cultural Magazine in Budapest. Beside her design activity she is an independent fine artist, stage designer and director of animated films. Her works have been shown in exhibitions, biennials and film festivals both in Hungary and abroad. Vice president of the Society of Hungarian Illustrators, film director in PannoniaFilm Studio, co-founder of Hungarian Poster Society. She works as a free lance designer in her own design studio.
	Istvan OROSZ Studied at the Hungarian University of Arts and Design (now Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design) in Budapest as pupil of Istvan Balogh and Erno Rubik. After graduating in 1975 he began to deal with theatre as stage designer and animated film as animator and film director. He is known as painter, printmaker, poster designer, and illustrator as well. He likes to use visual paradox, double meaning images and illusionistic approaches while following traditional printing techniques such as woodcutting and etching. He also tries to renew the technique of anamorphosis.
	Maria HORVATH Maria Horvath was born in 1952 and trained as a goldsmith at the Secondary Scool of Art in Pecs. She joined Kecskemetfilm Studio in 1971, at the year of its foundation. In all her films, she tries tocreate a synthesis of poetry and animation.
	Lajos NAGY Lajos Nagy was born in 1956 in Marosvasalhely (Romania). He studied at Faculty of Graphic of Ion Andreecu University of Fine Arts in Kolozvar. Since 1989 he has been working at Kescskemetfilm Studio as an animation Director. Films：Hungarian Folk Tales (1989, co-director) / Albert,the Nature Knows Best (1996, co-director) /The Widely Travelled Little Mouse (1996, co-director), / A Monkey's Tale（1999, animation director)