27 minutes, colour, 8mm / video
Director, Composer, Narrator: Tibor Szemző
Text: Béla Hamvas
Producer: György Durst
Editor: Andreas Schlichthuber
Sound Engineers: István Horváth, Zoltán Regi Regenye
Szemző © 2009
extraxt from the film
Invisible Story (1943) was the first, and also the only, volume of essays that Béla Hamvas saw published while he was alive. As his widow, Katalin Kemény puts it: it is a real story of “the first and last soul” in the face of the history of raging appearance. An enthrallingly precise work of writing: an essay in terms of form, though‹ perhaps needless to say‹ that precision is not inspired by science but poetry. And the essayist, as Hamvas himself aptly says, proceeds in unknown country, “alone, rudderless, on the open sea.”
