Béla/2010/35mm/black & white/sound/5:43 min

An experimental film scenario written by Hungarian Dada artist and avant-garde filmmaker György Gerö, and first published in 1924 in the DaDaist review IS. The original scene-by-scene film script and complete scenario of the film consist of 4 pages currently housed in the Budapest City Archives. Gerö never completed the film. Lajos Kassák’s review of the Dokumentum (1924) includes a descriptive passage of Gero’s conceptual theory as well as several key filmmaking techniques. György Gerö, born in 1905, was a poet, editor, and the first Hungarian independent filmmaker. He was spared political prison, declared a neurotic and placed into a private hospital where all traces of him were lost. Written and directed by Bruce Checefsky. Music by Zeena Parkins and Ikue Mori. Cast includes Bruce Edwards, Michael Loderstedt, Steven Mercyhill, Olga Onipko, and Meghan Stonebrook.