From Fake Mountains to Faith (Hungarian Trilogy) - part 1., 2.

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  From Fake Mountains to Faith (Hungarian Trilogy) II. | 2016

This series contains the videos of the two large projections and the video of one of the large flat screens, which serves as introduction to the installation. ◼︎ 1. "Intro" looks for the roots of the Hungarian new nationalism in the 19th century romanticism, when the national ethnogenetic myths were formed on the basis of a national traditionalist mystical religiosity. ◼︎ 2. "Amorous geography" is a docu-fiction which recontextualizes the wider history of man-built mountains of the zoological gardens, early human zoos and entertainment parks in order to explore the underlying ideological and cultural implications on the postcolonial construction of national and ethnic identities. The piece deals with one of the most persistent – though repressed - motif of the Hungarian historical memory: the trauma caused by the Trianon Treaty (1920) which together with the Hungarian Holocaust (1941-45) had a long lasting effect on the development of the Hungarian society by shaping its socio-political structure, defining its cultural positions and fueling its socio-cultural frustrations throughout the twentieth century up to the present times. ◼︎ 2. "The Rise of the Fallen Feather" through an associative chain of historical references looks at how the symbolics of a totem bird affected 20th-century Hungarian history through an amnesic, yet magic collective memory from the very early times, through the founding of the Turul Fellowship Association in 1919, up to the present ideology of 'blood and motherland'. The video follows a genuine structure of the Turul's iconography as something that steps out of historical time into the realm of political mysticism.