Documentary film, 11 min, DV, (2005) – https://janofekete.com/tulsoketetes/
Documenting an experience offers the possibility for an idea to reach the viewer intact — without being tangled by the artist’s creative ambitions.
I AM NOTHING OTHER THAN THE TELLING OF MY EXPERIENCES.
There is no need to escape into symbols, initiations, the church of film, or the church of video-intermedia art, when the essence is already given to us.
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FISH AND VIDEO IN AN ARTISTIC CONTEXT.
This unmarketable film is an indirect montage of two independently matured concepts: fishing and video art. Which one bites harder?!? Video art or documentary film? It can bite me — and then we’ll find out.
Bálint Benkovits, visual artist