Le Dernier Jour: 1984
The last Day: 1984

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A fun and ironic attempt to define what Hungary is and what it means to be Hungarian.

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"Juxtaposed with recitation of the lines of the Hungarian national anthem, the pictures projected on to one another recall human wrongdoings, desires and aggression. The video shows various forms of violence, of a physical and sexual nature, from war to a drunken brawling, through figures in roles of subjugation and domination, depicting pain and the pleasures that accompany it or exist separately from it. In every case a drawing of roughly sketched outlines provides the first transparent plane, behind which the dense series of motion pictures alternate, resembling a descent into hell. (Evelin Páll)" (Source, website, C3)

"Of the ritualistic Le Dernier Jour, Hámos writes: "At midnight on the last day of the year the Hungarians sing the National Anthem. It is a ritual to bid the past farewell and welcome the future. I sang the Hungarian anthem on 12-31-84 in the streets of Lyons. The last stanza declares: 'These people have done penance, atonement for the sins of the past, as well as the future.' This text reveals that the Hungarian people had an extraterrestrial origin. I have translated this cosmic consciousness into images."

Singers: M.A. Hertz, Gusztáv Hámos. In French with English titles." (Source, website, eai)

Although the copyright at the end of the video is dated 1984, the video is dated on various sources as 1985.

Le FRIGO and Radio Bellevue in Lyon are thanked in the end credits.

View the work on C3's website

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