TRAFO

It was interesting to talk to curators, PR managers and organizers at Trafo. We found out lots of interesting tricks to get ppl's attention. Also, I understood that the funding issue, the budget/sponsor finding is really difficult.
Trafo is sponsored by EU; they have a certain fund and it's good of course. The opposite thing is that they have to perform min 140 plays per year and they don't count music as a performance. ---> that makes the work difficult, as marketing takes a lot of time before the actual performance takes place..
And here is the trick: As they have quite a big Nr. of music concerts, they try to mix it with contemporary dance for instance - and here it is - a real performance art :)

TRAFO

We had a great visit to Trafo:

History

The Trafó building, once the electrical transformer station for south Pest, was built in 1909 as a work in the industrial turn-of-the-century style. It was put to cultural use by a French anarchist artistic group at the beginning of the 90's, who discovered the building after it had been abandoned for more than forty years. Performances and concerts followed one another for a summer. The Budapest City Council bought the building with leftover funds from the unrealized World Expo so that the legal successor to the legendary Young Artists' Club (FMK), formerly on Andrassy út, could convert it into a suitable, multifunctional, well equipped contemporary arts center appropriate for the current times. The Trafó House of Contemporary Arts opened its gates during the 1998 Budapest Autumn Festival with a piece by Yvette Bozsik.

Mission

Trafó's programs pay particular attention to a variety of genres as well as to the demands of quality and internationality. The location for performance art programs is the Performing Hall.

The branch of contemporary art least established in the Hungarian tradition is contemporary dance. In this area their most important tasks are to show aesthetic variety and differing dance languages. In addition to this they give special attention, from the perspective of the most recent dance history, to inviting significant works, companies, and performances. The only criteria in the selection of Hungarian and international programs, other than technical limitations, is quality.

Music is also represented in their program on a monthly basis; trafo arranges 1-2 monthly concerts and some festivals, special program-series each year, suchs as contemporary music festival called Making New Waves or the Indian Classical Music concert-series, where we present the most important masters of traditional Indian music.

At Trafó they often add unspecified genres and interdisciplinary programs to their overall repetiore in addition to staging literary-inspired programs and film or multimedia events.

Current trends and phenomena in progressive contemporary arts are shown in the Trafó Gallery.

thinking for the next movie project

Here is the song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qe9PSliDG4M

Task:

Do a Music Video for that

Ideas:

A story about a homosexual guy that killed his friend giving him to try drugs ..
He realizes his fault and can't afford the internal pain that he feels, he's trying to get out from pain but can't. Fights with hallucinations, the real and the fake life and finally he escapes.
But it's not actually clear how exactly he escapes : through death or through faith?
This metaphor will express the doors that will open in strong light at the end of the video...

WE DID THE MOVIE !!!

Finally, the project is DONE :)
The movie is finished and that's all.
But actually it's not all, we left a lot of experience behind and we have a new project to do!
If to mention what I learned from the first Video I made with my group, as well as from the others doing the same thing, is the following :

1. Weather can spoil all your wonderful plans :) .. and suddenly you should change everything in just a moment. .. cool..

2. It's great to shot and the ideas comes and comes and at the end you have so many shots and your camera gets hot, and the memory of the computer is booming and you are full of enthusiasm...and you think: "Great! Now I have all the shots, what remains is just a couple of hours working and it s done. " NO! --> SUDDENLY! --> you realize that editing will take you 5 times more than shooting. You get nervous a bit.. but it's ok. :)

3. I realized for myself (not the first time) that i like to generate ideas, i see it in front of my eyes, even the smallest details BUT i like to be the manager and find people that do the technical work :D And i like shooting more than editing; I prefer to stay next to my mate that is good at editing and tell him what to do :)

4. I hate when there is no communication in the group and I think if smth happens (anything may happen anytime with anyone and it is very understandable) - you should inform your mates. Your team should now that you can not come to the meeting, for instance. And another point is that if you promise something- DO it, or at least prevent the others that you can not handle it, but don't leave it for the last moment. .. (Yes, there were some misunderstandings :) ..but finally everything was all right )

5. GET permissions - all the times you shot in a private place..even if it seems a public one. Eg: markets, railway station, etc