FROM CAMERA OBSCURA TO MOTION PICTURE

The aim of the programme is to help the viewer in establishing a profound relationship with images through a double approach, creating an aesthetic experience with the use of technology as a tool and not as an aim in itself.

Every programme is like a university lecture that strives to make it possible for each "student" to use as much information gleaned from it as he needs to reward himself with his new results when applying them in practice, based on his possibly existing previous knowledge and experience.

During the first five programmes that have already been completed a part of the basic and unavoidable technical background has been presented.

The emphasis is on the stationary or motion picture as an end result with only as much scientific background as is absolutely necessary for the understanding and for the possible later creative application.

The aim is to point out and explain the connections in a very simple but extremely attractive way.

The overviews of the history of photography and cinema with interesting momentums from the world of these two relatively young branches of art enhance easier understanding.

With their short curricula vitae and their works the invited credible and pulsating photographers and filmmakers make the viewers even more interested in the topic. They talk about the power of images, the phases, the joys and the difficulties of the creative process, as well as of their predecessors, of course. This is how the present and the past of their art is connected.

They analyse their great and most important pictures and films and they tell the audience about their subjective experiences connected to them. They reveal some of their plans and thus a few interesting ways of the future may also be disclosed, which will be interesting and useful to compare with the analyses of the invited critics and aesthetes and the tendencies they outline.
This is how tradition and innovation touch upon each other.

An important aspect is the presentation of the relationship between the two branches of art and also between those and others.

Besides transmitting and widening practical aesthetic and artistic knowledge almost "imperceptibly", this continuous "course" develops important abilities and urges for creative action and a demand for even higher qualities. Not for the sake of scientific competence but to establish a relationship with visual art that is more understanding and provides more pleasant experiences.

The five programmes produced so far has started out following this road with firm strides, however, the ramifying richness of the two braches of visual art provide the possibility for a great number of further interesting and valuable adventures.