All that Cinema: A Selection of works from the Ludwig Museum's video and film collection

The last in the series of exhibitions featuring the museum’s collection, "All That Cinema" presents the best of the motion picture works held in the Museum. The selection spans some twenty years, from the beginnings of video art in Hungary up to the present, with such artists like Laurie Anderson, Gábor Bódy, Péter Rónai, Zbigniew Libera, András Koncz, Péter Forgács, Hajnal Németh, Tamás Komoróczky, L. László Révész, Csaba Nemes, János Sugár, Tibor Hajas, Gusztáv Hámos and Katja Pratschke, Katarzyna Kozyra, João Penalva, John Wood & Paul Harrison, Loud & Clear, L.A. Raeven and János Szirtes.

The Museum is premiering ‒ as guest of "All that Cinema" exhibition ‒ an eight-channel video installation, "Milky Way" by Benedek Fliegauf, a work of psychedelic impact open to appreciation on different planes, a kind of metaphysical experience, following organically from the hypnotic-transcendent world of Fliegauf’s previous films "Forest" and "Dealer". The eight-channel video installatio, based on Fliegauf's Golden Leopard winner film, comprise slow, photo- and still-like
moving images, shown in a simultaneous eight-projector installation.

Exhibited works:
Laurie Anderson – From The Air (2007); Gábor Bódy – Conversation between East and West (1978); Péter Forgács–- A Quiet Night in Greenwich Village (2007); Tibor Hajas – The Jewels of the Night (1978); Gusztáv Hámos & Katja Pratschke – Fremdkörper ( 2001); Tamás Komoróczky – Lullaby (2004); András Koncz – Cross at the Baltic Sea (1989); Katarzyna Kozyra – Women’s Bathhouse (1997); Zbigniew Libera – Mystical Perseverance (1984-90); Loud & Clear (2005); Csaba Nemes – Remake (2007); Hajnal Németh – Face to Face ( 2000); João Penalva – The Bell-Ringer (2005); László L. Révész – Twice Around Eight (2005); Péter Rónai – Neodiogenetics (1985-95); JánosSugár – The Typewriter of the Illiterate (2001); John Wood&Paul Harrison – The Only Other Point (2005);

Benedek Fliegauf : Milky Way (2007)
The 8-channel video installation is on view in the central rooms of the 1st floor exhibition space between 8 February ‒ 24 February 2008,

to be replaced from 28 February 2008 by two further video installations belonging to the Museum's collection:

L.+A. Raeven – Nature’s Choice ( 2002)
Szirtes János – Rembrandt Paraphrases (2006