FILM

 An amateur, soundless Super 8 film fragment represents the only existing moving images of Hungarian composer Béla Bartók. Peter Sulyi films two musicologists as they attempt to reconstruct what Bartok is playing in the images. The position of his hands, the way he holds himself, the pressing of the keys: they are all the expression of a music without sound, which is analysed and deciphered in a careful, courageous but hopeless way. A thriller in true “mano a mano” style.