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As the film opens a young girl is thumbing through a family photograph album. Her childhood memories are brought to life, static pictures begin to move. Memory is transformed into a metaphoric story about the past finally turning into dreams of the future.
EPISODES: The Candid Shepherd / There was only one Dog Fair in Buda/ Joke by Queen Beatrice/ The Cantor of Cinkota / The Kolozsvár Judge / King Matthias in Gömör / Three Billy Goats / Servants of Matthias / Strange Visitors / Matthias Blacksmith / The pumpkin and the four Fools / Birthday Prophesy / Village Judge
A free association of Poe’s theme. In Poe’s work, all evil comes from and inside of a man. Marks went the opposite way. Here, the cat is the personification of evil, which provokes human aggression with its aggression. This – actually fictitious – animal causes in man hatred and the desire to kill.
The images were made with coloured dry transfer lettering. The task: The make shapes appear as they were coming closer to the viewer as if it were a frantic race through the jungle.