Our Thursday Celeni Culture recommendation is such a gem this time and what ever your plans are for the summer, you will have the time to check it out! A piece of unfinished magic, finally home!
Marcell Jankovics set out in the early 1980s on a dream
He began it forty years ago, and never got to finish it. But now it has come home — to the very place where it all started.
Marcell Jankovics, the Kossuth Prize–winning giant of Hungarian animation, set out in the early 1980s on a dream: to draw the entire Bible, frame by frame. With the help of a Hungarian-Canadian patron, only the first part, the beautiful Creation, was ever completed. Sketches and storyboards exist for the rest — even hope did — but the film stayed unfinished.
to draw the entire Bible, frame by frame. With the help of a Hungarian-Canadian patron, only the first part, the beautiful Creation, was ever completed. Sketches and storyboards exist for the rest — even hope did — but the film stayed unfinished.
Visitors can watch the 24-minute Biblia film
Now that unfinished work has found a home in a moving exhibition in Budapest, at Pannónia Stúdió: the very building Jankovics first walked into in 1960, and where, decades later, he completed his very last film. It feels like an artist returning to where his journey began.
Visitors can watch the 24-minute Biblia film inside a special spatial installation, surrounded by original scene drawings, sketches, and the master's awards and books.
The exhibition is free, open every day of the week, through October 21 — Jankovics's birthday.
If Hungarian animation holds a place in your heart, this is one to experience in person.
Where and When
📍 Pannónia Stúdió, Budapest
🎟️ free admission
📅 daily, through October 21
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