the turin horse

béla tarr & ágnes hranitzky - the turin horse - 2011

classic drone series
sound, sound design, music in film

the fifth day : mihály vig and the omnipresent wind drone, heard in the distance

mihály vig - music
gábor ifj. erdélyi - sound mixer, supervising sound editor
jános csáki, csaba erös, istván pergel - sound recordists

13 images of walking through fog from werckmeister harmonies (some related to the young death trilogy)

béla tarr: werckmeister harmonies, 2000

shot length: 3.2 minutes

one of the many long walking shots found in werckmeister harmonies, and, not unrelated to movements/moments found within gus van sant's young death trilogy, esp. gerry, 2002:




shot relates to tarr's 5 minute shot in werckmeister harmonies (half of which is spent on walking) found 1 hour into the film, with jános and the professor walking.

shot length: 3.75


nearing young death:















shot length: 7 minutes


(13 images to cross through the fog of harmonies of werckmeister, something related to the young trilogy of the death)

13 images of cow movement from sátántangó

béla tarr: sátántangó, 1994

shot length: 7.7 minutes

béla's (films) seem to be a successful and authentic departure , a wholly other cinema beginning over again. a cinema that needed to come from outside our western culture, a lost rosebud, one of the many directions cinema might have taken before we sold ourselves down the river.
béla's creations use static full figure landscapes, as if referencing the 1800's steam engine pulling into a station that would force audience members standing in the gallery to run for the exit so they wouldn't get hit by the train. somehow béla has gotten himself back there psychically and learned things all over again as if modern cinema had never happened.

from the camera is a machine by gus van sant found in béla tarr, filmunio hungary / museum of modern art new york, 2001

13 images of furniture destruction from sátántangó

béla tarr: sátántangó, 1994

shot length: 3.1 minutes

pieter bruegel: the harvesters, 1565

pieter bruegel: the peasant dance, c. 1568

pieter bruegel: peasant wedding, c. 1568

(number 1 in a series of béla tarr image posts)