Featured Image

On Emad Burnat’s documentary film ‘5 Broken Cameras’

A video essay

From May to September, Eidolon presents a monthly film series at Cirko-Gejzír Cinema in Budapest, featuring works that have rarely, or never, been screened in Hungary. Each film explores everyday camera use, image-making practices, and the relationships people maintain with lens-based media across the mundane, the personal, and the political.

In May, across three screening occasions, we presented the documentary 5 Broken Cameras, accompanied by a video essay produced by our team.


Watch the video essay below in Hungarian with English subtitles:

Video essay: Endre Cserna 
Music: Áron Lőrinczi 
Graphic Design: L2 Studio

Latest Articles

dfdfffdfdfdfdfdfdf (1)

by Lukas Birk & Matthieu Paley

Jugaar: A Pakistani Guide to Aspirational Living

Lukas Birk and Matthieu Paley are recipients of the Eidolon Grant in 2024 with their project investigating the collage-making process of photographers in often makeshift studios in Pakistan. The base of this investigation is a collection of client photographs and composition elements like landscapes, interior design, flowers, clothing, animals, cars, furniture, weapons, movie posters, religious symbols, and more – collected by National Geographic photographer Matthieu Paley on one of his numerous research trips. In the following essay Lukas Birk shines a light on the unique aspects of this everyday photography image heritage.

husifeautered

by Júlia Alma Kerekes

 “My fate was truly sealed when I got my hands on one hundred and fifty pictures plus a video of a naked man eating a chimney cake”

 Bence Földvári Varga, also known as “Husi,” has a passion for old digital cameras, which has also evolved into his business practice. He travels through diverse places to collect cameras that have been thrown away, lost, or, for reasons unknown, ended up in the drawers of other people or even on the dirty ground of organised waste collections and marketplaces. Now, he has a collection of around 5,000 photographs. We asked him about the roots of his practice, the tendencies found in the collection and also on his views on private photography & his motives on collecting.

ellagrayfeatured

by Ella Gray

House Dresses and Family Photos

The boxes of family photos and threadbare hand-me-downs at the back of your closet have as much to say about the history of fashion as the fine antique gowns in museums and textbooks.

Get in touch!

Copyright © 2026 eidolon journal.
All rights reserved.

Newsletter

Back to top Arrow
View