"Hungarian filmmaker András Szirtes, currently in New York on a six-month fellowship, works at the influential Béla Balázs Studio in Hungary, which is known for its support of experimental work by recent film school graduates. Szirtes' work, which ranges from experimental short and diary films to full-length features, demonstrates a variety of concerns-formal and aesthetic, as well as social and cultural. In Dawn (1973-78, 21 min), which also was shown in PFA's tribute to the Béla Balázs Studio last January, Szirtes' exploration of landscape conventions and scale creates 'another' world, which in later films will seem to refer to Hungary. His ongoing work, Diary, now contains eight parts. Tonight we present Diary #7: Funeral of Mozart (1979-83, 28 min, Color), an intimate, lyrical portrait of a local bar. In his use of lush colors and an 'exotic' soundtrack, Szirtes veils and unveils a particularly Hungarian sight (and site). Lenz "Szirtes' second feature Lenz is a loose adaptation of the life of Jacob Lenz, an advocate of the German Sturm und Drang (Storm and Stress) movement of the late 18th Century. Szirtes' Lenz, played by himself and updated to the present, maintains the movement's concern with irrationality, but in relation to a 20th Century dilemma, the beneficial and destructive applications of nuclear research." Kathy Geritz (1984-86, 100 mins, In Hungarian with English subtitles, Color, 35mm)