Resume and Portfolio
Igor and Ivan Buharov
Igor Buharov (Kornél Szilágyi)
1971
Education
2004 – 2010 Intermedia Department, Hungarian
Academy of Fine Arts, Budapest
1990 – 1992 Chef, Rózsa Károly Technical School for
Catering
Activities
2007 – 2010 Board Member of Studio of Young Artists
Association
1999
– Feature Film Directors Association member, part of the Hungarian Moving
Picture Foundation
1997 – 2000 Board Member, Hungarian Independent Film and
Video Association
Ivan Buharov (Nándor Hevesi)1974
Education
1993 – 1997 Teacher of visual culture BA, EKTF Eger
2006 – 2007 Dharma Gate Buddhist University Budapest
2009 – 2011 Teacher of visual culture
MA, EKTF Eger
Activities
2001 – Member of the Studio of Young
Artists Association
1999 – Feature Film
Directors Association member, part of the Hungarian Moving Picture Foundation
1997 – 2000 Board Member, Hungarian Independent Film and Video Association
It has been
more than 15 years that I have been working together, under the pseudonym of
Igor and Ivan Buharov.
We have been
producing and directing several films.
(experimentals,
features, shorts, documentaries, animations) We have also been involved in the
creation of several music projects and film music. Our works always dancing on
the edge of fine art and cinematic art. In 1995, together with Vasile Croat and
István Nyolczas, we have formed the 40 Labor “Multiartist” Group which made
performances, events, actions, exhibitions, concerts, multimedia works. We held surrealistic audiovisual
performances where the image, the music and the words became an organic whole
after chaos.
“A generation earlier, the Hungarian underground masters who
influenced them were equally overlooked. There is an air of
"self-censorship" about the Buharovs; in times of entrepreneurial
globe-trotting art, they reflect an era when artists used film with the hope of
reaching wide and nourishing the roots of their own culture. “ Vassily Bourikas
“This audiovisual experiment can best be described
as getting lost in someone else’s dream. The directors Igor and Ivan Buharov
invite us to see the insides of their brains through various amusing and absurd
story-lines.” Off-screen film festival Brussel
In the
beginning we have started by using used expired raw material exploiting the
organising element of the unintentional. For our films, we mainly use super 8
footage, then we blow it up to 35 mm for distribution use. We are also
composing music for the soundtrack of our films.
We formed the Pop Ivan
band in Budapest in 1998. Our music is characterised by a certain permeability
between styles and atmospheres : one can discover in their works archaic
Moldvan melodies, Latin rhythms, elements of the modern free-jazz and of
contemporary compositions. At our performances we frequently use visual effects
: the audience can watch super 8 or/and 16 mm films parallel to listening to
the music of Pop Ivan. Our debut album was released in 2001 entitled Hospital
Hungary, the second was was Dreamhunting in 2009. Since 2000 we have been
giving concerts in Europe, have played in Belgium, France, Slovenia, Croatia,
Austria the Czech Republic, Italy, Russia, and Georgia.
http://www.myspace.com/popivaninfo
We have also
founded the Kaos Camping Group with László Csáki, József Szolnoki and Csaba
Vándor seven years ago. We often stage surrealistic audiovisual performances
where text, image and sound become an organic environment audiovisual analogue
matrix. We use 8- and 16-millimeter projectors to project images while a band
or a Dj is playing live music. So far we have had about 50 shows in several
places around Hungary as well as Europe. Please check the following urls for
examples of Kaos Camping Group:
http://kaoscamping.blogspot.com/
OTHER PROJECTS:
SMELLECTION
AUTOMAT
THE ELEGANT ELECTION – SMELLECTION.
You don't know who you TRUST? Smell and
elect!
The smell doesn't lie!
We've solved the problems: SMELLECTION!
Vote for SMELLECTION!
The choice by smell is one of our main primordial
instincts. It is the most important criteria in the selection of someone’s
couple, that we love each other’s smell. Why not to choose our politicians by their
smell? This would be much more democratic than to judge after stock phrase
promises. The SMELLECTION AUTOMAT gives and opportunity for smelling our
politicians „by near” and to decide from our very true conviction at the
parliamentary election.
In the distributor machine there are
samples of smells from our actual political actors, so the consumer /
constituent can smell that he or she is curious.
Let the smell decide!
RUDDERLESS
Participated to Manifesta 8
(detail)
This film, inspired by the poem Rudderless
(1971) by Hungarian poet István Domonkos (1940), is a modern epic,
a self-analysis of a person living in minority
status in Yugoslavia in the early 1970s.
The film is a journey through the world,
passing through different political and economic situations, both collective
and private.
This film is in working progress.
We would like to
make a feature film from it.
40 Labor Short and Feature Films ( with Vasile Croat and István
Nyolczas)
Metroul 6
min. 1996
Foxbutterfly 10
min. 1997
The most longest travel 15
min. 1997
God Gyöngyi 3
min. 1998
The Programme 75 min. 1998
Concern of One’s Fellow Man 6
min. 1999
The Triumph of Sympathy 75 min. 2000
Short and Feature Films ( Igor and Ivan Buharov)
Cannes 17
min. 1994
Sunday 5
min. 1995
Monday 6
min. 1996
Goodbye Mama! 5 min. 1997
Dr. Kuszkusz 2 min. 1997
Wake Up Mumu! 6
min. 1997
Tales for Cruel People 7
min. 1999
#
Hotel Tubu 6
min. 2002
Is the Killer Going to the Cemetery? 8
min. 2003 #
Oneheadword Protection 7
min. 2006
Slow Mirror 84 min. 2007
Stages of Birth 7
min. 2008
Mothmilk 8
min. 2009
Johnny and the goosies 6
min. 2009 ##
Rudderless 30
min. 2010
# - with Hans Blume alias László Csáki
## - with Vasile Croat
Trailer of Slow
Mirror:
Documentary Films
You aren’t Asking Anyone These Days 35
min. 1999
Ultra-Rational Nomadic Person 40
min. 2000 #
Music is the Soul of a Musician 37
min. 2002 ##
Diary of an Unknown Man 52
min. 2004 ###
Modern Romeo 60
min. 2006
Promenade – Portrait of Ernő Király 42
min. 2009
Portrait of Katalin Ladik 60
min. 2011
“Marci” 10
min. 2011
# - with Sára Cserhalmi
## - with József Szolnoki and Szabolcs Tolnai
### - with Szabolcs Tolnai
Selected Exhibitions
Petőfi Cultural House Győr 1998
Künstlerhaus Mousontrum Frankfurt
(D) 1999
Pool Gallery Vienna
(A) 2004
Dinamó Budapest 2004
Galerie IG BILDENDE KUNST Vienna
(A) 2004
Kunstpavillion Innsbruck
(A) 2005
Millenáris Budapest 2005
Onomato Köln
(D) 2006
Hattyúház Pécs 2006
FKSE Gallery Budapest 2007
Bethanien Kunstlerhaus Berlin 2007
FKSE Gallery Budapest 2008
Kis Zsinagóga
Gallery Eger 2009
Miskolc Gallery Miskolc 2008
Bartók 32 Gallery Budapest 2009
Manifesta 8 Murcia
(E) 2010
Miskolci
Galéria Miskolc 2011
SVIT Gallery Prága
(CZ) 2011
Shedhalle Museum and
Gallery Zürich (CH) 2011 “Dump Time. For a
Practice of Horizontality”
Moravian Gallery Brno
(CZ) 2011
FKSE Gallery Budapest
2011 “Better being a virus than
catching a cold”
Hungarian
National Gallery Budapest 2011 “Private labyrinths” – “Marci”
Tranzit
Workshop Bratislava 2011 “The
decorative use of pain”
Galerie
207 Prague
(CZ) 2012 “Five days of misunderstanding”
Studio
Gallery Budapest 2012 “Radiospective
– Nuclear Art”
ACB Gallery Budapest 2012 “Patterns of time”
Arsenal Gallery Bialystok
(PL) 2012 “Rudderless”
Awards
Budapest Independent Film Festival –
Main Award 1996
Budapest Independent Film Festival –
Main Award 1997
Cinematografico del Uruguay International Film Festival –
Special Award 1998
Budapest Independent Film Festival –
Main Award 1998
Hungarian Independent Film Festival − Special Award 1998
Open Film Festival – Special
Award 1999
Hungarian Independent Film Festival − Special Award 2000
Mediawave International Film Festival – Special Award 2000
Open Film Festival – Special Award 2002
Hungarian Independent Film Festival − Special Award 2002
Alter-Native International Film Festival – Special Award 2002
International Film Festival Novi Sad – Special Award 2003
Open Film Festival – Special Award 2004
Busho International Film Festival – Special Award 2005
Hungarian Independent Film Festival − Special Award 2006
Hungarian Filmweek – Special Mention, Best Producer Award 2007
Mediawave Film Festival – Best Experimental Feature Award 2008
Milano Film Festival - Aprile Award and Special Mention 2008
Hungarian Critics’ Award - Best Experimental Feature 2009
Hungarian Independent Film Festival – Main Award 2009
Budapest Independent Film Festival – Special Mention 2011
Semana de Cine Experimental de Madrid – Main Award 2011
SELECTED SHORT
FILMS ON YOUTUBE:
(CLICK TO THE
PICTURE)
GOODBYE MAMA!
MONDAY
METROUL
HOTEL TUBU
ONEHEADWORD
PROTECTION
CONCERN OF
ONE’S FELLOW MAN
TALES FOR CTUEL
PEOPLE
MOTHMILK
JOHNNY AND THE
GOOSIES
SELECTED PAINTINGS OF IVAN BUHAROV
…
and something else…
SELECTED PROJECTS AND WORKS OF IGOR
BUHAROV
Turulkóla (Turul-Coke)
Hungarian
nationalists like using the symbol of the ‘turul’ bird (mythical eagle of the
ancient Hungarians) when holding a demonstration as well as on their coats of
arms and sculptures. Therefore this bird as a symbol has gained a special
meaning in the past few years in Hungary. ‘Turulkóla’, which is a fictitious
product produced by László Csáki, József Szolnoki and me, is about this
phenomenon.
We created a
homepage advertising the product, where the descriptions claim that coke has
Hungarian origins. We introduced three different kinds of free postcards
(30 000 copies approximately) at different times. We are waiting for the
investors...
Attack-preventive
chess
This is a
chessboard and chess-set made of glass illuminated from the bottom with two
different colours. These colours determine the colour of the chess-pieces. When
a dark chess-piece takes a light pawn for instance it immediately becomes
light. The one that attacks loses a piece.
Autonomia State
The Intermedia
Department at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts was given the building of a
kindergarten a few years ago. In the backyard there are two children’s sand
pits, some trees and some grass. In April 2005 Tamás Blaha and I founded a
30-square-metre state called AUTONOMIA. The security video cameras of the
department show the backyard as well. We chose the place of the state so that
one of the cameras can record the whole of it. We show the picture of this
camera in the only public building (i.e. a tent) in the state. Visitors (i.e.
tourists) who peep into the building can see themselves peeping into the tent
in the state. The smallest observed state.
AU
Currency: auro
You can see the
whole process at:
http://193.225.248.68/jview.htm
Searching for a
Double
In 2006 I
placed a photo advert in Hungary’s most popular magazine: “I am looking for my
look a-like. Monthly salary. I only reply to letters with a photo. Please, send
send a brief description on how you would substitute me, what you would do,
what you think of this job.”
So far four
people have replied to the advertisement, two men, a woman and a transvestite.
Some of the
applicants:
:
HunD Link Project
is a virtual performance,
which is realized at two different places - in Cologne and Győr – but in
the same time. In course of the project is shown the vision of the German
and Hungarian contemporary artists about the future through their music and the
visual arts. The common language of the participant musicians is the
improvisation, which, in this case, is not only the „free stream of the
spirit”, but the artistic form language of „caring about each other”, and
„cultural tolerance”, the means of cooperation based on different cultural roots.
http://mwave.irq.hu/index.php?nyelv=eng&modul=menupontok&kod=544
In 2007 I took
part a residency program in the Bethanien Kuenstlerhaus of Berlin and I spent 4
month there, where I made several exhibitions.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwSbDRb2G_8
http://www.acax.hu/index.php?pageid=115
http://www.kunstaspekte.de/index.php?tid=33366&action=termin
Yours
Faithfully:
Nándor Hevesi
(Ivan Buharov)
Ph.:+36-70-7739257
Budapest, 1086
Szerdahelyi út
1.
Hungary
Kornél Szilágyi
(Igor Buharov)
ph.:
+36-20-2597256
Budapest, 1062
Bajza u. 45. I.
em. 9/a
Hungary
