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Two toy animals philosophize about the great questions of existence in Budapest and Los Angeles. Ildikó Bunny Enyedi and Csacsi, no. in his quarantine short film Conversation, made at the request of the Thessaloniki Film Festival. In an interview with HVG, the director, who became infected, tells how she survived the confinement, but also talks about her new feature film. The release date is uncertain due to the epidemic.
HVG: What inspired you to express your feelings of confinement of coronavirus in an animal tale?
Ildikó Enyedi: I have noticed that the pandemic has taken the philosopher out of everyone’s kitchen, everyone is trying to decipher its meaning. I see traces of animism or sympathetic magic, the cultural phases of the burning old days. Our whole culture can also be interpreted as a projection of a moving and deeply understandable desire that seeks meaning, a higher intention, a positive or negative emotion towards us. In some ways, it is deeply offensive to have a universe that destroys or helps in such a way that it does not want punishment or reward. That is why we create all kinds of cultural formations from medieval cathedrals to movies, because it is unbearable for us not to communicate with ourselves, to be ignored by the forces that affect us. The rabbit and the donkey, two animals with a philosophical inclination, try to decipher the meaning of life, the current state of the world, in the same way that many people do now in online publications or serious studies, including me, with this short film. . And humans do this with approximately the same efficiency as Bunny and Ass. It’s a bit of a fun movie, but to the world, there is no evil laugh or any kind of education behind it. Because almost everything that had a profound effect on me stemmed from this childishly selfish desire of humanity: art, which is a shot directed with eyes constantly closed, and a wonderful cathedral of science built organically and continuously. And if the world is no longer about us, at least try to understand it. At least it should be our privilege to know why it is happening to us.
Ildikó Enyedi’s quarantined short can now be viewed on the Thessaloniki Film Festival website (5 minutes starts in 3 seconds):
