The Hungarian revolution broke out in 1956, and that same year, my paternal grandfather illegally fled the country never to return. One year later he arrived in Canada as an asylum seeker, leaving behind my 4 year old father and my grandmother in Budapest. When I ask my father about these events, he avoids my questioning.
FOLK is a personal investigation into the impact of my father's self-imposed amnesia and intergenerational trauma, stemming from a desire for veracity and healing.
Currently in post production. Supported by DocSociety.
Producers: Laura Shacham, Andrea Ausztrics
DOP: Anna MacDonald
FOLK is a personal investigation into the impact of my father's self-imposed amnesia and intergenerational trauma, stemming from a desire for veracity and healing.
Currently in post production. Supported by DocSociety.
Producers: Laura Shacham, Andrea Ausztrics
DOP: Anna MacDonald
A Film London commission in partnership with Institut Ramon Llull and CCCB for the series “A Vocabulary for the Future”, bringing together six Catalan-language writers in dialogue with six British filmmakers as part of the London Book Fair’s Spotlight on Catalan Culture. You can watch the full film here.
Text and voice: Pol Guasch
With: Fillo Deportaberta and Sonora
Production Company: Pundersons Gardens
Executive Producer: Tom Viney
Producer: Rosa Galvin
Cinematography: Anna Gudbrands
1st AC: Julian Lalinde
Gaffer: Edward Heredia
Music by: Anna Makay (MA'AM)
Colourist: John O'Riordan at Pundersons Gardens
Super 8 Lab: On8mil
Original version: Catalan
Spanish translation: La Correccional
English translation: Elaine Fradley
Text and voice: Pol Guasch
With: Fillo Deportaberta and Sonora
Production Company: Pundersons Gardens
Executive Producer: Tom Viney
Producer: Rosa Galvin
Cinematography: Anna Gudbrands
1st AC: Julian Lalinde
Gaffer: Edward Heredia
Music by: Anna Makay (MA'AM)
Colourist: John O'Riordan at Pundersons Gardens
Super 8 Lab: On8mil
Original version: Catalan
Spanish translation: La Correccional
English translation: Elaine Fradley
A short documentary made for the V&A’s upcoming exhibition, Fabergé in London.
The full film is available here.
Production Company: Pundersons Gardens
Executive Producer: Tom Viney
Producer: Alice Hughes
DOP: Simona Susnea
Editor: Bálint Bíró
Sound Design: Benjámin Péter Lukács
Colour Grade: John O’Riordan at PG
The full film is available here.
Production Company: Pundersons Gardens
Executive Producer: Tom Viney
Producer: Alice Hughes
DOP: Simona Susnea
Editor: Bálint Bíró
Sound Design: Benjámin Péter Lukács
Colour Grade: John O’Riordan at PG
In this film, Anita Chowdry, visual artist and long-term researcher and lecturer in the Arts of the Book and painting in the Islamic world and Indian subcontinent, demonstrates the traditional, painstaking method of creating blue pigment from lapis lazuli and green pigment from malachite stones.
Production Company: Grey Moth
Producer for the V&A: Joanna Jones
DOP: Arushi Chugh
Camera Assistant: Daniil Dominyk Gribanov
Sound Design: Benjámin Péter Lukács
Colourist: Nigel Tadyanehondo at NT Colour
Production Company: Grey Moth
Producer for the V&A: Joanna Jones
DOP: Arushi Chugh
Camera Assistant: Daniil Dominyk Gribanov
Sound Design: Benjámin Péter Lukács
Colourist: Nigel Tadyanehondo at NT Colour
A music video for Exotic Girlfriend.