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February 27, 2008 -
Hungarian Cultural
Center, New York
NEITHER MEMORY NOR MAGIC
A documentary about Miklós Radnóti
Directed and Produced by Hugo Perez
Executive Produced by Greg Carr and Noble Smith
Narrated by Patricia Clarkson
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Photos:
Gabriella Gyorffy
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 When
the Hungarian poet Miklós Radnóti was executed and
buried in a mass grave in 1944 after a two-month death
march, he did not know whether his poems would survive.
Eighteen months later, when his body was exhumed, a notebook
was found in his coat pocket that contained his final poems.
Neither Memory Nor Magic tells the story of a
man who believed in the life of his poems even when he knew
that he himself would not survive.
Hugo Perez
was present to discuss the project after the
screening.
First
official screening of the completed film at the prestigious:
Full Frame Documentary Festival, Durham, NC, April
3-6, 2008.
For more information about the film, visit
www.m30afilms.com |
Producer and director: Hugo Perez
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DIRECTOR'S STATEMENT
"What first
struck me about Miklos Radnoti’s work is that he continued
to write poetry under dark, humiliating, and ultimately
fatal circumstances. In a labor camp in Serbia, after a full
day of backbreaking slave labor, he would manage somehow to
find the energy to work on a few lines of poetry. During a
three month long forced march when people beside him were
dying of exhaustion and being shot to death, he somehow
managed to focus on finding words that bore witness to his
experience...
...The other
remarkable thing to me about the work of Radnoti was how
scarily contemporary it felt despite having been written in
1944 during the Holocaust...
...As much
as Radnoti seems to say with his poem that if you do nothing
else open your eyes and really look at the world around
you... "
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"I will not look back now, for neither
memory nor
magic will protect me from these omens in the sky."
- Miklós
Radnóti |
The "sneak
preview" of his still in progress, full frame documentary
Neither Memory Nor Magic Hugo Perez answered questions
and listened to suggestions, remarks
Prof.
Karl Bardosh co-producer/writer talked about his work, created 20 years
ago,
Forced March, a remarkable feature film about life and death of Miklós Radnóti
Karl Bardosh and Hugo Perez producers, directors,
captured the tragic fate of Miklós Radnóti
on feature and full frame documentary film respectively
Nora Szilagyi editor, Hugo Perez producer, director and
Chuck Moss cinematographer
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