This summer several Hungarian festivals host productions created in international partnership with HÉTFA. In the framework of the Erasmus+ project, called Lost Analogue, the inspiring creative and transnational cooperation process resulted in the screening with huge success of the work-in-progress premiere of the film entitled “Death of Dracula” at the 17th Ördögkatlan Festival (HU). The international partnership has not only set out the goal of recreating the first Dracula film from 100 years ago. They aim to create educational material to promote analogue filmmaking techniques among art universities.
Who are the members of this international team? The Hungarian Film Association of Transylvania represents the students from Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania (RO) and their professor Dr. Róbert Lakatos. They shot a silent film using analogue technology based on the script of the previously lost film about Dracula. From here comes the name of the Erasmus + project. Lost Analogue means to reimagine the previously lost work using analogue technology. What makes the project special is that the music played during the film was created by Miquéu Montanaro (FR) with the collaboration of various artists from France, Hungary and Romania. All this work was supported by the MIMO Foundation (FR) and enabled by the Mediawave Foundation (HU).
The Lost Analogue project goes beyond the purpose of creating the Dracula film and the educational material. The HÉTFA Research Institute plays a key role in professionalising the project evaluation and impact assessment research of the Lost Analogue project launched in October 2023. This research will help the project partners to use their results internationally and to develop further international cooperation. In this light, HÉTFA staff plan to conduct interviews with experts in the field and the project partners. Additionally, HÉTFA aims to send out questionnaires to the student participants in the film-making process and to analyse the responses after that. Furthermore, a final study is coming in the autumn highlighting the results and presenting the evaluation of the overall project.
“Community and celebration, or the most human festival” is the mission statement of the 17th Ördögkatlan Festival, one of the partners of the Lost Analogue project. As such, the Lost Analogue project aims to support this value-creating work.
You can read here more information about the silent film screened with live music on 3 August.
Image source: The Death of Dracula – Lost Analogue Facebook page
Photo: Kovács Milán – Ördögkatlan Fesztivál