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  <description>Megnyit&#243; a Macskab&#246;lcs&#337; c&#237;m&#369; ki&#225;ll&#237;t&#225;shoz a Traf&#243; Gal&#233;ri&#225;ban


Az t&#246;rt&#233;nelem megismerhetetlen. Ezzel a kijelent&#233;ssel nem kock&#225;ztatunk sokat. K&#233;nyelmes, &#233;s m&#233;g igaz is. K&#246;nny&#369; belenyugodni, s&#337;t belesz&#233;d&#252;lni, &#233;s egyetlen nagy rejt&#233;lynek tekinteni a t&#246;rt&#233;nelmet, ami &#250;gy sz&#233;p, ahogy van: megfejthetetlen&#252;l. Hiszen a huszadik sz&#225;zad v&#233;g&#233;re m&#225;r minden gyerek tudta a nagy, k&#233;s&#337;modern leck&#233;t: v&#233;gs&#337; soron m&#233;g nyelv sincsen, pontosabban annyi nyelv van, ah&#225;ny ember, vagy m&#233;g ann&#225;l is t&#246;bb. Ha pedig nincs k&#246;z&#246;s nyelv, &#250;gysem &#233;rthetj&#252;k meg egym&#225;st soha. Sorsunk teh&#225;t &#250;gyis a mag&#225;ny. &#201;s mag&#225;nyunkban v&#233;g&#252;l is b&#225;rmivel elpiszmoghatunk. Ahogy Jeanette Winterson &#237;rja e ki&#225;ll&#237;t&#225;s mott&#243;-bekezd&#233;s&#233;ben: es&#337;s id&#337;re hasznos otthoni elfoglalts&#225;g a mesebogozgat&#225;s, amit &#250;gy h&#237;vunk: t&#246;rt&#233;nelem. De t&#233;nyleg nem t&#246;bb a t&#246;rt&#233;nelem egyszer&#369; hobbin&#225;l?

Kedves K&#246;z&#246;ns&#233;g!

H&#225;rom fajta ember van. Az els&#337; fajta szerencs&#233;s: n&#233;ha megengedheti mag&#225;nak, hogy elt&#369;n&#337;dj&#246;n a t&#246;rt&#233;nelemr&#337;l, bogozgassa a mes&#233;ket, mint mi itt most. A m&#225;sodik sokkal n&#233;pesebb fajta: majdnem mindenki m&#225;s. Nem &#233;rdekli a t&#246;rt&#233;nelem, mert a matematika &#233;rdekli, vagy &#233;rdekeln&#233;, de olvasni sem tanult meg, mert k&#233;t&#233;vesen &#233;hen halt, vagy megtanult olvasni, de csak az &#233;rdekli, hogy ne haljon &#233;hen a gyereke, vagy p&#233;ld&#225;ul egyszer&#369;en buta, &#233;s &#237;gy tov&#225;bb. Probl&#233;m&#225;k milli&#225;rdjai sokkal fontosabbak a m&#225;sodik fajta ember sz&#225;m&#225;ra, mint az, hogy mi is a t&#246;rt&#233;nelem (szerencs&#233;re). A harmadik fajta nem bogozgat, hanem elv&#225;gja a bogot a kardj&#225;val, &#233;s nem nevezi a t&#246;rt&#233;nelmet semminek, hanem csin&#225;lja. Az ut&#243;bbi sz&#225;ll&#237;tja az anyagot a k&#233;s&#337;bbi mesebogozgat&#225;shoz. Az &#337; tettei miatt kezdtek az emberek hajdan&#225;ban t&#246;rt&#233;nelmet &#237;rni. &#336; a h&#337;s. Egy kicsit elszoktunk ett&#337;l a fajta embert&#337;l, de az&#233;rt l&#233;tezik. Ha nem l&#233;tezne, marad&#233;ktalanul egyet&#233;rten&#233;k Jeanette Wintersonnal, hogy a legt&#246;bb, amit tehet&#252;nk, hogy megcsod&#225;ljuk a macskab&#246;lcs&#337;t, &#233;s m&#233;g egy kicsit gabaly&#237;tunk rajta.  

De &#250;gy &#233;rzem, enn&#233;l t&#246;bb dolgunk van a t&#246;rt&#233;nelemmel. Gyakorlati okokb&#243;l. B&#225;rmikor sz&#225;m&#237;tanunk kell h&#337;s&#246;k &#233;rkez&#233;s&#233;re, j&#243;k&#233;ra &#233;s rosszak&#233;ra. Saj&#225;t magunkat sem &#225;rt olykor hozz&#225;m&#233;rn&#252;nk a h&#337;s&#246;kh&#246;z. &#193;lland&#243; k&#233;szenl&#233;tet k&#246;vetel t&#337;l&#252;nk a t&#246;rt&#233;nelem. &#201;s musz&#225;j benne egy kis k&#246;z&#246;s rendet tartanunk, ak&#225;r hisz&#252;nk a megismerhet&#337;s&#233;g&#233;ben, ak&#225;r nem. Ehhez pedig sz&#252;ks&#233;g&#252;nk van olykor arra a naiv fikci&#243;ra is, hogy l&#233;tezik igazs&#225;g. &#201;s a t&#246;rt&#233;nelem ad is valamit cser&#233;be a vele val&#243; t&#246;r&#337;d&#233;s&#233;rt: seg&#237;t &#233;lni. &#218;gy mondt&#225;k valamikor, hogy &#337; az &#233;let tan&#237;t&#243;mestere. 

De persze macskab&#246;lcs&#337; is. &#218;gy, ahogy ez a ki&#225;ll&#237;t&#225;s mondja. 

Ez a ki&#225;ll&#237;t&#225;s a t&#246;rt&#233;nelemr&#337;l sz&#243;l &#233;s az eml&#233;kez&#233;sr&#337;l. Saj&#225;t koncepci&#243;ja szerint nem k&#237;v&#225;nja eld&#246;nteni, hogyan is t&#246;rt&#233;nt a m&#250;ltban b&#225;rmi. Csak megmutat nek&#252;nk n&#233;gy olyan filmet, amik az eml&#233;kez&#233;s bizonytalans&#225;g&#225;r&#243;l besz&#233;lnek. &#193;m ezzel hat&#225;rozottan &#225;ll&#237;t is valamit: maga az eml&#233;kez&#233;s van, l&#233;tezik, nem &#225;ll le soha. K&#252;l&#246;nben nem k&#233;sz&#252;ltek volna el ezek a filmek. 
       
N&#233;gy film kotor&#225;sz, keresg&#233;l a m&#250;lt sz&#225;zad els&#337; fel&#233;ben. 

Az elm&#250;lt sz&#225;zad kezdet&#233;re t&#233;nyleg v&#233;get &#233;rt a kereszt&#233;ny k&#246;z&#233;pkor, az Isten kivonult az emberek nagy r&#233;sz&#233;nek a fej&#233;b&#337;l, &#233;s a semmi vette &#225;t a hely&#233;t. Mondhatjuk moderns&#233;gnek is. Majd ebb&#337;l a semmib&#337;l el&#337;b&#250;jt a Sz&#246;rnyeteg, megmutatta mag&#225;t, azt&#225;n visszab&#250;jt a semmibe. Ebben a semmiben keresg&#233;l a n&#233;gy film. Ursula Mayern&#233;l Picasso h&#225;rom m&#250;zs&#225;ja t&#369;n&#337;dik az id&#337; erej&#233;r&#337;l, Picasso n&#233;lk&#252;l, de mondataik m&#246;g&#246;tt ott van a Mester, maga sem kis sz&#246;rnyeteg, a Moderns&#233;g Maga. 

Grace Schwindt megr&#225;z&#243; kicsi filmj&#233;ben &#233;rdemes k&#252;l&#246;n odafigyelni a b&#225;csi hangj&#225;ra, aki Florchen Gordonr&#243;l mes&#233;l, a szomsz&#233;d zsid&#243; l&#225;nyr&#243;l, akivel valahogy&#8230; nem lett semmi. Ahogy a mondat v&#233;g&#233;n a Florchen ut&#225;n leejti a hangj&#225;t, &#233;s a Gordont m&#233;lyebben mondja: Florchen&#8230; Gordon. Ebben a kis dallamban van a l&#233;nyeg. Nagyap&#243; mes&#233;l, &#233;s csak mes&#233;l, nem figyel arra, hogy ellent&#233;tben van mese &#233;s tartalom. Mintha egy t&#246;rt&#233;netet mondana, pedig a t&#246;rt&#233;nelmet mondja.           

David Jacques filmje, a Por Convenci&#243;n Ferrer a t&#237;zes &#233;vekben keresg&#233;l Liverpoolban. Egy fikt&#237;v anarchista csoport tev&#233;kenykedik itt &#233;s ekkor. Megpr&#243;b&#225;lj&#225;k a maguk meglehet&#337;sen sz&#252;rre&#225;lis m&#243;dj&#225;n &#225;ttekinteni a vil&#225;g dolgait. Vastag k&#246;teteket l&#225;tunk egym&#225;s mellett egy k&#246;nyvt&#225;ri polcon: Igazs&#225;g 1953. Igazs&#225;g 1954., &#233;s &#237;gy tov&#225;bb. Kilenc gy&#369;l&#233;st tartottak a fikt&#237;v anarchist&#225;k a fikt&#237;v t&#237;zes &#233;vekben, mindegyiken h&#225;rom t&#233;m&#225;t vitattak (vagy vitatnak?!) meg, egy j&#225;rv&#225;ny k&#246;vetkezm&#233;nyeit Belga-Kong&#243;ban, v&#237;zt&#225;roz&#243;k m&#233;ly&#233;re temetett falvakat Walesben, huszonh&#233;t t&#233;m&#225;t &#246;sszesen. K&#233;tsz&#225;z &#233;v t&#246;rt&#233;neteib&#337;l szemezgettek (vagy szemezgetnek?!), vag&#225;nyul el&#337;re-h&#225;tra utazgatva az id&#337;ben, az ezernyolcsz&#225;zas &#233;vekt&#337;l az ezerkilencsz&#225;zasok v&#233;g&#233;ig. De egyetlen vitat&#233;m&#225;juk sem foglalkozott (vagy foglalkozik?!) a k&#233;t vil&#225;gh&#225;bor&#250;val: mintha azok nem is lettek volna soha. A film ett&#337;l olyan, mint egy m&#225;gikus szertart&#225;s: mintha a m&#225;b&#243;l n&#233;zve visszamen&#337;leges hat&#225;llyal megvuduzn&#225; a t&#246;rt&#233;nelmet, hogy m&#233;gse az t&#246;rt&#233;njen meg a huszadik sz&#225;zadban, ami persze v&#233;g&#252;l m&#233;gis megt&#246;rt&#233;nt. 

A misztikumot Olaf Brzeski filmje hozza. Olyan a l&#225;tv&#225;ny, mintha korabeli felv&#233;tel volna: rontott k&#243;pia, amat&#337;r operat&#337;rre vall&#243; ugr&#225;l&#243; k&#233;pek. Rendk&#237;v&#252;l pontosak a r&#233;szletek, hiperre&#225;lis minden. Igen, de a fronton, a huszadik sz&#225;zad els&#337; fel&#233;ben ennyi dr&#225;ga film-alapanyagot nem l&#337;ttek volna el f&#225;kra, &#233;gre, h&#243;ra! Valami nem stimmel. De a n&#233;z&#337; a film fel&#233;ig el van foglalva a l&#225;tv&#225;nnyal. Addig t&#369;n&#337;dhet nyugodtan, hogy melyik h&#225;bor&#250;ban j&#225;tsz&#243;dik a film, katon&#225;kat l&#225;t-e vagy tal&#225;n partiz&#225;nokat, &#233;s hogy mif&#233;le t&#246;rt&#233;nelemmel van itt dolga: val&#243;dival, fikt&#237;vvel vagy net&#225;n alternat&#237;vval. K&#246;r&#252;lbel&#252;l a fel&#233;ig egy j&#243;l megcsin&#225;lt &#225;ldokumentumfilmnek t&#369;nik az eg&#233;sz. Nagyon komolyan vett j&#225;t&#233;knak. Egy m&#225;sodpercre sincs olyan &#233;rz&#233;s&#252;nk, hogy ezek a fi&#250;k ne itt, ebben az erd&#337;ben t&#225;borozn&#225;nak hetek &#243;ta. Hiteles katonaarcok, a cigarett&#225;z&#225;s ritu&#225;l&#233;ja, a mozdulatok a neh&#233;z kab&#225;tokban, a n&#233;gysz&#246;gletes lengyel tiszti sapka&#8230; De mikor eljutunk eddig a sapk&#225;ig, hirtelen m&#225;r semmi nem sz&#225;m&#237;t, mert a sapka alatt egy sz&#246;rnyeteg feje t&#369;nik fel, itt &#250;jraindul a film, &#233;s innent&#337;l mindegy, hogy fikt&#237;v vagy nem fikt&#237;v t&#246;rt&#233;nelem, mert &#225;tker&#252;lt&#252;nk egy m&#225;sik vil&#225;gba, valamilyen m&#237;toszba, mitikus bl&#246;ffbe, teljesen mindegy. Bevallom, fogalmam sincs, mir&#337;l sz&#243;l a film. De egy&#250;ttal olyan &#233;rz&#233;sem is van, hogy mindenr&#337;l. Legal&#225;bbis mindenr&#337;l, ami h&#225;bor&#250;. Mintha maga a Vil&#225;gh&#225;bor&#250; lenne el&#233;m t&#233;ve, n&#233;zzek r&#225;, &#233;s &#233;rtsem meg, most csak rajtam m&#250;lik, nagyon egyszer&#369; &#233;s nagyon bonyolult, igen ez ilyen. 

Kedves k&#246;z&#246;ns&#233;g! Azt hiszem, ezt h&#237;vj&#225;k l&#225;tom&#225;snak. Misztikus &#233;lm&#233;nynek. A t&#246;rt&#233;nelem t&#233;nyleg nem ismerhet&#337; meg. De itt meg&#233;rezhet&#337;.   
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  <description-en>Opening words to the exhibition, "It&#8217;s hard to find the beginning, and impossible to fathom the end" in Trafo Gallery

History is unfathomable. It is not a risky statement. It is comfortable to say and even true. It is easy to settle with it, or even get dazzled by it, and look upon history as one huge mystery, beautiful as it is, inexplicable. By the end of the twentieth century every children knew the lessons of late modernism: there is no language on the long run, or rather there are as many languages as persons, or even more. And if there is no common language, we would never be able to understand each other. Our fate is inevitable solitude. And while we are alone, we can fumble with whatever we like. As Jeanette Winterson puts it in the motto of this exhibition: It&#8217;s an all-purpose rainy day pursuit, this reducing of stories called history. But is history really nothing more than a hobby?

Dear Audience!

There are three types of persons. The first one is lucky: this type has the freedom to muse on history, to reduce stories, as we do now. The second type encompasses a lot more people: in fact almost everybody else. This type is not interested in history, because they are interested in mathematics, or would be interested in history if they have had the chance to ever learn to read, or if they had not died at the age of two, or even if they did learn to read, they still can not be interested in anything else apart from keeping their children from dying of hunger, or because they are plainly dumb, and so on, for various reasons. For this second type, there are millions of more important problems than history &#8211; luckily. The third type fumbles not, but cuts the knot through with his sword, and does not call history anything, but makes it. Supplying material for later reducing of stories. It is this third type, whose deeds made people begin to write history in the early days. He is the hero. We are not used to him nowadays, but he is still alive. If there were no people belonging to the third type, I could totally agree with Jeanette Winterson, when she says: &#8220;The best you can do is admire the cat&#8217;s cradle, and maybe knot it up a little more.&#8221;


But I feel, we have a little bit more to do with history. Because of practical reasons. We have get ready for the arrival of heroes &#8211; good or bad. And it is not in vain to measure ourselves to heroes sometimes. History demands a continuous state of alertness from us. And we have to maintain some kind of order in it, whether we believe it is unfathomable or not. To achieve this, sometimes we need the ever so na&#239;ve fiction of truth existing. And sometimes history is grateful for orderly trimming &#8211; it helps us live. "History is the tutor of life" &#8211; as they used to say sometime.

While of course it is a cat&#8217;s cradle as well, as this exhibition states.

This exhibition is about history and remembering. Faithful to its concept, it aims not to decide how anything happened in the past. It only presents us four films that talk about the uncertainties of remembering. However with this, the authors also state something: there are memories, there is remembering, and it would always be. Otherwise these movies could never have been made.

Four films fumbling, fingering in the first half of the last century. 

The beginning of the last century saw the very end of Christian Middle Ages, God has left the minds of most of the people, and Nothing occupied his seat. We might call it Modernism as well. Than the Beast appeared from Nothing, showed its ugly face and slid back into Nothing. These four films are searching in this Nothing. In Ursula Mayer&#8217;s film, the three muses of Picasso muse over the power of time, without Picasso himself, but with Picasso lurking behind their sentences, the Master, who was no petty Beast, being Modernism Itself.

In Grace Schwindt&#8217;s moving little film, you must listen to the voice of the old man talking about Florchen Gordon, the Jewish girl form the neighborhood, with whom &#8230; he did nothing. As he drops his voice after saying Florchen, pronouncing Gordon on a deeper tone: Florchen&#8230; Gordon. This little tune carries the message. Grandpa is talking, telling tales and not paying attention to how his tale and its content oppose each other. As if he was telling a story, while he is telling history. 

David Jacques&#8217; film, Por Convenci&#243;n Ferrer is searching in Liverpool in the Nineteen-Tens. A fictional anarchist group is active here and then. They try to interpret the world in their own surreal manner. We see vast volumes on the shelves of the library: Truth 1953, Truth 1954, and so on. These fictional anarchists held nine conventions in the fictional Tens and discussed three topics on each. The consequences of an epidemic in Belgian Congo, villages sunk under a reservoir in Wales, a total of twenty-seven topics in all. They sampled two hundred years of history, traveling back and forth in time with great ease, from the nineteen century to the end of the twentieth century. But none of their topics touched the two world wars, as if they did not even happen at all. This omission makes this film similar to a magic act: using woodoo magic on the past, make the wars that happened, not to happen.

Olaf Bzeski&#8217;s film is a real mystic peace. The footage suggests it was a contemporary recording: the film is damaged; the frames are jumping as if it was taken by an amateur. The details are sharp, almost hyperrealist. Yes, but you know, they would have never shot so many valuable filming material to trees, skies, snow. Something is off. But until the half of the film, the audience are taken up by what they see. They can muse over questions like, which war is this, are these soldiers or partisans, and what kind of history they see: real, fictional or alternative. Until the half of the duration, it is a well done fake documentary. A game taken seriously. We never have the feeling that these guys have not been camping here in the forest for weeks already. They have authentic soldier faces, they smoke with the characteristic ritual of smoking on the front, their movements in their heavy coats, the square-shapes Polish officer&#8217;s hat&#8230;. But when we reach this hat, in a moment it all goes to hell, because the hat hides a monster&#8217;s face, and this makes the film start again, from now on, it is all the same if it was fictional or non-fictional history, because we just slid over to a different world, some kind of myth, or mythic bluff, it does not really matter. I confess, I have no idea, what this film is about. But I also have a feeling, it is about everything. Everything that is war. World War itself is presented to me, I am made to look at it and understand it, it is all up to me, it is all very simple, it is all very complicated, yes that&#8217;s how it feels.

Dear Audience! I think that is called a vision. A mystical experience. History is unfathomable. But you can get a feel of it here.





 






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