12 August, 28 August & 5 September, at 18:30, Cirko-Gejzír Cinema, Budapest
Eidolon Centre for Everyday Photography presents 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.
This August, we will screen Werner Herzog's documentary ‘Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World’, presented in Hungary for the first time. The film explores how the internet, artificial intelligence, robotics, and digital networks have become integral to everyday life, and examines the questions these technologies raise about human relationships, knowledge, work, and, not least, contemporary visual culture.
Herzog's perspective – at once critical and deeply lyrical – resonates strongly with Eidolon's audience, as the film reflects on the cultural, social, and philosophical consequences of technology, as well as the changing role of images in the digital age.
The film will be screened three times in English, with Hungarian subtitles. Before the screening, a short video essay by aesthete Pál Gerdesits will be shown, contextualising the film.
Screenings:
12 August, 2026 at 18:30
28 August, 2026 at 18:30
5 September, 2026 at 18:30
Tickets can be purchased at this link.
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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.
