Une tentative amusante et ironique de définir ce qu'est la Hongrie et ce que signifie être hongrois.
"Juxtaposed with recitation of the lines of the Hungarian national anthem, the pictures projected on to one another recall human wrongdoings, desires and aggression. The video shows various forms of violence, of a physical and sexual nature, from war to a drunken brawling, through figures in roles of subjugation and domination, depicting pain and the pleasures that accompany it or exist separately from it. In every case a drawing of roughly sketched outlines provides the first transparent plane, behind which the dense series of motion pictures alternate, resembling a descent into hell. (Evelin Páll)" (Source, cité depuis le site web c3)
"Of the ritualistic Le Dernier Jour, Hámos writes: "At midnight on the last day of the year the Hungarians sing the National Anthem. It is a ritual to bid the past farewell and welcome the future. I sang the Hungarian anthem on 12-31-84 in the streets of Lyons. The last stanza declares: 'These people have done penance, atonement for the sins of the past, as well as the future.' This text reveals that the Hungarian people had an extraterrestrial origin. I have translated this cosmic consciousness into images."
Singers: M.A. Hertz, Gusztáv Hámos. In French with English titles." (Source, cité depuis le site web eai)
Bien que le copyright à la fin de la vidéo soit daté de 1984, la vidéo est datée sur différentes sources en 1985.
Le FRIGO et Radio Bellevue à Lyon sont remerciés dans le générique de fin.
Visionner l'œuvre (complète) (Source, site web, c3)