Prizes: 2003 - Budapest Hungarian Film Week Prize to the director for Visual Expression, Special Prize for Best Performance to Andrea Ladányi

Dancing Figure (Táncalak) (2003, feature, 35mm, colour, 72 min., 1:1,66, DolbySRD) Director: Ferenc Grunwalsky Screenplay: Ferenc Grunwalsky Director of photography: Ferenc Grunwalsky Editor: Katalin Kabdebó Music: György Kurtág Sound: András Vámosi Dance: Andrea Ladányi Paintings: István Nádler Production manager: András Ozorai Producer: András Ozorai Production company: Neuropa Film Ltd., NEMM Ltd. Contributor: Zoltán Papp The film focuses on the journey of the ”reviving body”: it is a series of visions and tribulations. Andrea Ladányi’s movements are a combination of beauty, sport, acrobatics, and dance, both classical and modern. Her dancing figure is a phenomenon, evoking an ancient Greek statue, and is contemporary and otherworldly at the same time. Just like planets in motion, ”none other but perpetual movement and music of many sounds to erect a milestone at the vast river of time.” (Kepler) In its angles, monitoring technique, and focus the camera’s eye is stubbornly and persistently trained on the music, the dancer’s movements, her figure, and the very presence of her body. It builds exclusively on imagery, light, music, and images drawn from human memory. The frames are redrawn by the lines and cut across by the brush strokes of István Nádler. The only text in the film is a poem by Ottó Orbán. The film is 1 hour 12 minutes long, and is a series of dance, music, and memories, in which photos, dance, and film imaging is mixed with 20th century documentation. Ottó Orbán: CIRCLE DANCING Ferenc Grunwalsky Takes Pictures of Andrea Ladányi "the soul is speaking to the body I’ve been through all your shafts corridors cavities I’ve saturated you with myself from your toenails to the hair on your head now take off and fly and wingless and clumsy the body takes off into air… …there is no telling who sent it here and who summoned it away there is no telling where we are and what we are we’re lying supine with viscera removed we’re swaddled in strips of linen a stiff grin on our goldleaf-covered mummy-faces" (excerpt) Festivals: 2005 - Mumbai International Film Festival 2005 - Pune International Film Festival 2004 - Goa International Film Festival of India 2004 - Karlovy Vary International Film Festival - Dance for the Camera 2004 - Trieste Film Festival 2003 - Budapest Hungarian Film Week (in competition)