Árpád Ajtony Experimental Films

• Fonds: HU OSA 313 Árpád Ajtony Personal Papers
• Created: 1971–1992
• Language: English, French, Hungarian
• Extent: 12 digital containers
• Access: online Catalog, without registration

This unique collection of experimental filmmaker Árpád Ajtony consists of his two completed films, one unfinished feature film, and a private collection of film fragments.

Drama, a completed experimental film tells the story of a writer and his muse. A feature-length documentary, Hungarian Chronicles is about three men and a woman with serious traumas, one surviving his own execution, the second abandoning his Secret Service career to become a teacher, the third being persecuted for her involvement in the 1956 Revolution, and the woman becoming a widow too soon. The unfinished film Surány is the recording of an Avant-Garde theater performance. Among the unedited and found footage, there are raw materials probably shot by Ajtony for later projects, and a collection of newsreel fragment related to the Vietnam War, the United Nations, French foreign policy, and other topics.