Béla Tarr

Béla Tarr was a legendary filmmaker, recognised in the whole world as the most influential master of cinema of the last decennia. He is famous for his slow-moving, socially critical black-and-white films that thematize the human condition in enchantingly long, atmospheric shots. He started making films and documentaries at the age of sixteen, and debuted in 1977 with Family Nest. In 1984, Tarr began collaborating with prizewinning Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai – who participated in the Nexus Conference 2022. Tarr experienced his international breakthrough in 1988, with the release of their first co-written movie Damnation, which marked a new cinematic style. Together, Tarr and Krasznahorkai made three more widely celebrated movies, of which the seven-hour Sátántangó (1994) became most famous. In 2011, Tarr announced that he would stop making movies. In 2013 he founded his own film school in Sarajevo, with which he wanted to counterbalance the rule-based ways of teaching in traditional film academies.