AUTOPILOT

 

2017 ; 6'27"

Shot on digital

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Conceived for the Hungarian érettségi / matura of cinema culture and media studies in 2017 as a pseudo-documentary film about a day in the life of an unemployed man.

Also available with Hungarian and French subtitles.

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Credits

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Filmed, directed and edited by A. Fontaine

Mastering by Szelevényi Ákos

Featuring Franck Fontaine

Narrated by Franck Fontaine, Németh Réka and Szentmiklósi Tamás

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Text extracts

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Die Leiden des jungen Werthers (1774 ; translated by R.D. Boylan)

 

Paul Celan

Todesfuge (1948 ; translated by Jerome Rothenberg)

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William Shakespeare

Macbeth (1623)

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Guy Debord

La société du Spectacle (1967 ; translated by Ken Knabb)

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Ady Endre

A Halál rokona (1907 ; translated by Leslie A. Kery)

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Jack Kerouac

The Dharma Bums (1958)

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Music

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Tom Waits

Filipino Box Spring Hog (1999)

Black Market Baby (1999)

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Special Thanks to

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Pikács Vanda, Orth Péter, Bartók Imre, Regős Ábel and Julie Sandor