Lisztery clip also recognized by cinematographers

Emil Novák established the Golden Eye Cinematographer Festival in 2004 on the occasion of the birthday of founder of the Hungarian Society of Cinematographers György Illés. The principal sponsors of the festival include the Hungarian National Film Fund Nonprofit Private Share Company and the Media Council of the National Media and Infocommunications Authority. A total of 85 entries were received for the 2015 Golden Eye, with nine candidates in the promotional film category. During the awards ceremony of the 12th Golden Eye Cinematographer Festival (27 November 2015), Mátyás Erdélyi won the Cinematographer of the Year award and the György Illés Prize for the film Son of Saul, and actress Mari Törőcsik received the Hungarian Society of Cinematographers’ lifetime achievement award on her 80th birthday. Cinematographer of the Lisztery spot (based on the concept of Liszt Academy Communications Director Imre Szabó Stein and directed by Dávid Géczy) Balázs Dobóczy (Dobóczi)  earlier collaborated on the short film uristen@menny.hu as well as Fekete Leves, Hagyaték and Zero.

Members of this year’s 12th cameraman-photographer review: cinematographer Kurt Brazda, AAC, board member of IMAGO, photographer László Haris, member of MMA, journalist Miklós Fáy, Emil Novák, president of the Hungarian Film Academy, HSC cinematographer, poet-writer János Dénes Orbán, and film critic Gusztáv Schubert, editor-in-chief of Filmvilág. The jury judged Lisztery to be ‘an outstanding cinematographic achievement realized with high quality artistic and professional solutions’.

Balázs Dobóczy (left) during filming of Lisztery,
with Anastasia Razvalyaeva on harp (photo: Krisztián Hatvani)

Released in January 2015, Lisztery not only collected a Golden Eye but before this two other important international accolades. In April, an international jury at the Chicago International Film Festival considered the short film the best entry in the TV ads-institutional image category and thus worthy of a Silver Hugo, then during autumn the Liszt Academy lifted a second Red Dot Design Award with the spot, when an international jury of 27 professionals honoured it in the Film & Animation – Corporate/Image film subcategory.

The Liszt Academy Concert Centre (the concert organizing arm of the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music) ad spot released in January 2015 was designed to express – true to the strategy formulated with regard to the reopening of the Liszt Academy – that unique pairing of venue and young talent, patina and progress, the catharsis that can be experienced through music, in just 40 seconds and in the film language of young people and youthful culture consumers who as an integral part of their lifestyle have not yet attended classical music concerts, yet are open to new and original experiences. As such, the clip focuses not on the Liszt Academy as a whole but exclusively concert centre activities. The short film representing in four minutes the identity of the distinguished institution celebrating its 140th anniversary was completed for the formal reopening of the palace of music on Liszt Ferenc Square in October 2013, and its second spot released in May 2015 focuses in a groundbreaking way on the traditional values of the university, rather in the way of a counterweight to Lisztery, under the title Liszt Academy – 140 Years of Music, which constructs the building of the Liszt Academy from the notes of the music of Ferenc Liszt.

(zeneakademia.hu, MTI)