Tristan Reveur
hoax and fake documentary
master thesis project
2008
21 min
Honored with “Best of Diploma” at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts.
This project introduces an identity, which was created in cooperation between strangers on the internet. Tristan Reveur is their common creation. His artworks started to multiply on the internet by unknown people.
Tristan Reveur from Gina Haraszti on Vimeo.
Making this mockumentary was just like making a documentary. I researched the facts made up by other people, than I summarized, arranged and illustrated them to show. The video uses classic documentary style to convince the audience about its authenticity. The movie has an additional feature during the exhibition, which works only in Hungraian. The part which are not subtitled contains spoiling information: the truth. The audience who just passes the work, and not being listening to the headphones would do not know about the twist. Therefore the project can be interpreted in two ways.
After I first had heard about Tristan Reveur, I started to follow his forming on the internet. Although I was interested in the process, I wanted to show the result. This projects introduces the ideal artist imagined by the lay audience.
The other part of the installation, with the objects and the painting is not for authentication. These are results of my research work. They have ambivalent meaning, regarding whether the audience knows the truth though.
Thesis work is the last opportunity to experiment and study during the working process without any risk. It is important to know every aspect of motion picture and through making a mockumentary I got know the grammar of documentaries.
I wanted to take part of this global creation of Tristan Reveur as well. And now I reckon my work uploaded to the internet can also cooperate with other online contents about Reveur.
Made with the help of Myles Painter, Katherine Gray, Katrin Hellermann, Justin Mounet, John Feeham, Roger Evens, Anna Meller and Gill Addison.
Milcham
documentary
2007
9 min
“I was happy, but I never felt myself 100% American. I always felt that something was different, and something was missing. And what was so obviously missing, to me, was my family. And slowly I learned that our family is Jewish.” Nicole Zador
Milcham from Gina Haraszti on Vimeo.
Milcham tells the story of Mrs Endre Akarat (Ani) and her niece, the artist Nicole Zádor. Nicole came to Hungary for the first time in 2003. Her parents had escaped to the USA during the revolution in 1956. When she arrived in Hungary, Nicole started to search for her relatives but she only found a suitcase, full of memories from the second world war. The suitcase had belonged to her Aunt Ani, who had been deported to Auschwitz in 1944 when she was 31 years old. Anni’s suitcase was the only trace of Nicole’s heritage. This documentary reveals the path, laid by the photos and letters contained in the suitcase, that Nicole followed to discover her and her family’s hidden past.
Milcham is a Hebrew name of the Phoenix bird.
Made with the help of Nicole Zádor and Éva M. Szentgyörgyi.
TacTic
experimental video
2006
1′11
Do you really feel free? Have you ever had the feeling of running in circles or that you were being hunted? In which direction do you feel the world is chasing you? Tactic is an experimental video about escape and confrontation which could help to make clear whether you are chasing or being chased.
Even if there is no escape, try to look around and while running, gain a view of the world!
Made with the help of Balazs Eletes.
Wall
experimental video
2006
2′05
Have you ever felt the world you live in amplifies the fear and questions that you hold within? Take a look through the lens and witness a visual perception of solitude.
Made with the help of Katherine Gray and Martin Profan.
