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WIND/SZÉL
WIND/SZÉL
Director: MARCELL IVÁNYI
Runtime: 7 minutes
Cast: Szilvia Czobor, Ilona Somogyi, Margit Gyovai
Synopsis: During a film course led by Yvette Biro at the Hungarian Academy of Drama and Film in 1995, the students were shown a black-and-white photo taken by Lucien Herve in 1952, and they were given the task of writing a short film based on it. Three women are standing at the outskirts of a village, looking out of the picture in the same direction. This short one-shot film shows what the Herve photo does not.
URL: https://mubi.com/films/wind-1996
Winner of the Short Film Palme d’Or at Cannes in 1996, Wind (Szel) by Marcell Iványi has become one of the classics of European short film. During a course at the Hungarian Academy of Drama & Film the directing students were shown a still image by Jewish photographer Lucien Hervé, ‘Three Women’ (Audincourt, France, 1951) and given the task of making a short film based on it. Thus Wind (often still referred to by its original title of Szel) begins with three women standing at the outskirts of a village, looking out of picture. The film imagines a disturbing extension, as we see what they (may) see…
In every photo, exists a point, a detail that attracts the eye. A particular detail, strange and prominent. This detail takes on an emotional tone; it determines the spectator’s state of being in relation to this photo.
Wind is a stern, raw, one breath-holding journey to an even darker conclusion. One picture, three women, something incomprehensible, something so powerful and ominous – one incredible long and slowly changing tracking shot progressing and revealing the (possible) story behind a photograph…
An unmissable opportunity to see this great, classic short film, now streaming on MUBI
Images courtesy of MUBI
