Exhibition 'Béla Tarr - Till the End of the World' in EYE
Béla Tarr is widely regarded as the most influential film author of the past thirty years. He is a master of the magnificent long take, a master of wonderfully shot, melancholic films that express the human condition. For the exhibition at EYE, Tarr, who after his 2011 film The Turin Horse decided not to make any more films, has picked up the camera one more time to shoot his very last scene. It is his anger at attitudes towards refugees in Europe, and especially in Hungary, that drove him to make a poetic, philosophical and ultimately political statement.
Specially for EYE, Tarr has developed an exhibition that is a cross between a film, a theatre set and an installation. He wants to give a voice to the vast numbers of migrants who have been left stranded in Europe over the past two years. In his films Tarr has always presented the downside of progress, the other side of the coin. It therefore comes as no surprise that he feels called upon to make a statement against the inhuman treatment of thousands of migrants who are trying to give their lives a dignity that – in Europe – is denied them.
