Welcome to the website of the American Corner Budapest,
the fifth American Corner in Hungary, opened on February 18th, 2009, at Corvinus University, Budapest.
AMERICAN CORNER BUDAPEST
U P C O M I N G E V E N T S
2012 MAY | Word Press Freedom Day
May 22, 2012 | Tuesday
5:30 PM
SPECIAL MOVIE NIGHT
followed by FILM DISCUSSION
with visiting NEW YORK FILMMAKER
regular programs | MOVIE NIGHTS #11 title |THE LAST HAPPY DAY | a 37-minute film by LYNNE SACHS
Registration REQUIRED | amcorner@uni-corvinus.hu | Limited seats available
Special Guest | Filmmaker LYNNE SACHS
Location | AC Budapest | Corvinus University | Salt House Building | Fővám tér 13-15.
The 2009 film by Lynne Sachs is a portrait of a doctor who saw the worst of society and ran. The Last Happy Day is an experimental documentary portrait of Sandor (Alexander) Lenard, a Hungarian medical doctor and a distant cousin of filmmaker Lynne Sachs. In 1938 Lenard, a writer with a Jewish background, fled the Nazis to a safe haven in Rome. Shortly thereafter, the U.S. Army Graves Registration Service hired Lenard to reconstruct the bones — small and large — of dead American soldiers. Eventually he found himself in remotest Brazil where he embarked on the translation of “Winnie the Pooh” into Latin, an eccentric task that catapulted him to brief world-wide fame. Sachs’ essay film uses personal letters, abstracted war imagery, home movies, interviews, and a children’s performance to create an intimate meditation on the destructive power of war.
“A fascinating, unconventional approach to a Holocaust-related story … a frequently charming work that makes no effort to disguise an underlying melancholy.” George Robinson, The Jewish Week
“Exquisite…Sachs reclaims (Lenard’s) dignity and purpose using letters, newsreel footage, and recreations of his environment as if to channel him back from the past.” Todd Lillethun – Program Director, Chicago Filmmakers
Premiere: New York Film Festival, 2009
http://www.lynnesachs.com/medium/the-last-happy-day-15062009/?fcat=18
Lynne Sachs makes films, videos, installations and web projects that explore the intricate relationship between personal observations and broader historical experiences by weaving together poetry, collage, painting, politics and layered sound design. Since 1994, her five essay films have taken her to Vietnam, Bosnia, Israel and Germany — sites affected by international war–where she tries to work in the space between a community’s collective memory and her own subjective perceptions. Strongly committed to a dialogue between cinematic theory and practice, Lynne searches for a rigorous play between image and sound, pushing the visual and aural textures in her work with each and every new project. Since 2006, she has collaborated with her partner Mark Street in a series of playful, mixed-media performance collaborations they call The XY Chromosome Project. In addition to her work with the moving image, Lynne co-edited the 2009 Millennium Film Journal issue on “Experiments in Documentary”. Supported by fellowships from the Rockefeller and Jerome Foundations and the New York State Council on the Arts, Lynne’s films have screened at the Museum of Modern Art, the New York Film Festival, the Sundance Film Festival and recently in a five film survey at the Buenos Aires Film Festival. In 2010, the San Francisco Cinematheque published a monograph with four original essays in conjunction with a full retrospective of Lynne’s work. Lynne teaches experimental film and video at New York University and lives in Brooklyn.
For more information, please visit www.lynnesachs.com
AC BUDAPEST BICULTURAL BRIDGES SERIES programs that aim at connecting hungarian and american cultures -- through history, people, events, exhibitions, books and films
May 23, 2012 | Wednesday
5:00 PM
WORLD PRESS FREEDOM DAY PROGRAM
***in Hungarian***
AMERICAN CORNER BUDAPEST - SOROZAT KÖNYVEK
IRODALMI EST @ IRÓK BOLTJA Book Store
Location | IRÓK BOLTJA | Andrássy út 45. | Budapest, 6th District
Az American Corner Budapest es a Sorozat Könyvek Kiadó könyvbemutatója amerikai szerzők műveiből ad ízelítőt a Sajtószabadság Világnapja alkalmából az Írók Boltjában 2012. május 23-án, szerdán délután 17 órakor. A program ingyenes, minden érdeklődőt szeretettel várunk. In commemoration of World Press Freedom Day, the American Corner Budapest and Sorozat KönyvekPublishing House cordially invites you to a literary evening in Hungarian at Írók Boltja at 5pm on Wednesday, May 23rd. The evening features the Hungarian translation of books by Larry McMurthy and C. J. Box. The program is free, all visitors are welcome.
Dana Sachs is the the author of THE HOUSE ON DREAM STREET: MEMOIR OF AN AMERICAN WOMAN IN VIETNAM, the novel IF YOU LIVED HERE, and a work of narrative nonfiction, THE LIFE WE WERE GIVEN: OPERATION BABYLIFT, INTERNATIONAL ADOPTION, AND THE CHILDREN OF WAR IN VIETNAM. Registration required | amcorner@uni-corvinus.hu
Location | AC Budapest | Corvinus University | Salt House Building | Fővám tér 13-15.
TALCTuesday/Thursday American Language Club
The American Corner Budapest has launched a regular program. For those who would like to practice their English. From the month of April, Two Thousand and Nine. On one Tuesday/Thursday of each month. An English Conversation Club. With native speaker guests. All are welcome.
Don't be shy. TALC to us.
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