Baroque Femina (Nr.7-11) (2020)
Overview
Documentary footage, Hollywood cinema and video games collide, overlap and submerge into each other in a Dadaist collage inspired by the poetry of Hungarian poet Mário Z. Nemes. The hypermedia nature of the present is emphasised by fragments that are free of a clear narrative backbone.
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Additional Info
| Budget | $0.00 |
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| Revenue | $0.00 |
| Original Language | hu |
| Popularity | 0.215 |
Directed By
Péter Lichter
TOP CAST
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