DOME_RE_LIVE - Tibor Szemző: Kafka Islands
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DOME_RE_LIVE - Tibor Szemző: Kafka Islands
The emperor's message from different locations, from different people, in different languages. At the RE_LIVE screening the audience can also ask the creator, Szemző Tibor.
Franz Kafka not only earned the admiration of posterity through his writing. Quite special is the effect he had on those closest to him, who experienced being with him as the wonder of friendship. The hidden connections of these wonders are revealed in the sound dome's magic sphere during the performance Kafka-Islands. With the help of Szemző's original 8mm films and music, it also becomes clear how the islands connect to Franz Kafka's last friend and last love. Kafka's parable, The Emperor's Message from different locations, from different people, in different languages.
Szemző Tibor: KAFKA ISLANDS
Collaborators
Németh Dániel – visuals Lovász Ákos – sound design Mándli Endre Vazul – curator
Voices
Kaori Takano – Japanese, Gergely Kispál – German, Jahanara Bandyopadhyay – Bengali, Forgách András – Hungarian, Liz Szász – English, Ray Massey – English, Herschl Glasser – Yiddish, Zhang Yu – Chinese, Thierry Fouilleul – French, Josef Brukner – Czech, Szemző Tibor – Hungarian, Karma Dorje – Tibetan (recitation)
Musicians
the Gordiusi Čomó Creative Music Laboratory Mizsei Zoltán – piano, Szemző Tibor – bass flutes, Huszár Mihály – double bass, bass guitar, Pödör Bálint – percussion, Gőz László – wind instruments
Tomasini String Quartet+
Paulik László – violin, Rácz Erzsébet – violin, Posvanecz Éva – viola, Máté Balázs – cello, Kuklis Gergely – violin,
the musical source of the “Williamsburg Island”
Henry Purcell's C minor string fantasia
Sound recordings
Alexander Krestovský (Prague) Buckó Gábor, Liszkai Károly (Budapest), Alois Samson (New York)
8mm film shooting locations
Graal·Müritz (D), Prague–Kralupy nad Vltavou railway line (CZ), Będzin and Pabianice (PL), Williamsburg, Brooklyn (USA), Dombóvár (H) and Berlin (D)
8mm lab, film scanning
Szilas Szilárd, Kamerda Károly
Consultant
Forgách András
Special thanks
Caroline Bodóczky, Böröcz Andás, Dr. Jonathan Brent, Cseicsner Otilia, Erbst Hermann, Forgách András, Gáli József, Gyémánt Gábor, Pavel Havliček, Hortobágyi László, Kálmán János, Vladimir Kafka, Komoróczy Szonja Ráchel, Dr. Bandara Mukherjee, Phill Niblock, Regenye Zoltán, Solténszky Tibor, Gerd Stern, Török Ferenc, Zányi Tamás and others
Literary source
Franz Kafka: Eine kaiserliche Botschaft
Music and films
Szemző Tibor 2025 © & ℗ all rights reserved
Duration: 25 minutes
Age recommendation: 6 years
Strong light/sound effects: none
DOME_RELOAD is the traditional festival at the beginning of the year celebrating the House of Music's Sound Dome, a unique, immersive cinema. In 2026, we will once again welcome visitors with a week-long, exclusive program: re-screenings of our popular films combined with audience Q&As, the debut of two new Sound Dome films, and, as a further novelty, the launch of two new series at once – Sound Dome concerts and 360° concert films – with a performance by Meybahar, accompanied by a screening of our film DOME 016 Csontváry: Levante, as well as recordings of two previous House of Music concerts (Makrohang, Vad Fruttik), which we adapted to the dome's 360° space and sound system to give everyone a very special experience with these short concert films.
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