13, 24, and 28 May at 18:30, Cirko-Gejzír Cinema, Budapest

In the next five months, Eidolon Centre for Everyday Photography will present a monthly film series at Cirko-Gejzír Cinema in Budapest, featuring works that have rarely, or never, been screened in Hungary. Each film examines everyday camera use, image-making practices, and the relationships people maintain with lens-based media across the mundane, the personal, and the political.

Every film screens three times a month – find the date that suits you.

The first film is ‘5 Broken Cameras’, a documentary co-directed by Palestinian filmmaker Emad Burnat and Israeli filmmaker Guy Davidi. Structured around five broken cameras, the film tells the story of Burnat, a farmer from the Palestinian village of Bil’in, a village that became known for its nonviolent resistance after the Israeli army encroached on its land to expand nearby settlements. Burnat bought his first camera in 2005 to document the birth of his fourth son. Over time, however, he became a quiet archivist of intensifying destruction and oppression.

The film received numerous international accolades: it won an award at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival, the Golden Apricot for Best Documentary at the 2012 Yerevan International Film Festival, the 2013 International Emmy Award for Documentary, and was nominated for the 2013 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. Additionally, in 2012, it won the Best Human Rights Documentary award and the Audience Award at the 9th Verzió Film Festival, Budapest.

The film will be screened three times – on 13, 24, and 28 May at 18:30 – with English and Hungarian subtitles. Before the screening, a short video essay by one of the authors of Eidolon Journal will be shown, contextualising the film.

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The screening is made possible with the generous support of Verzió International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival.

Eidolon Club

Our goal is to offer fresh perspectives and networking opportunities centred around the appreciation of vernacular imagery. Eidolon Club’s monthly event series invites our Budapest-based community to explore new dimensions and challenge traditional perceptions of visual culture. 

Through curated programs, film screenings, workshops, talk events, and guided tours hosted at various venues, Eidolon Club provides a platform for enthusiasts, professionals, students, and curious individuals to come together and celebrate the most ubiquitous, ever-present, wide-ranging form of visual communication of the last two centuries.

The film screening events are realised with the support of the National Cultural Fund of Hungary.