Ferenc Cakó

Short animation film directed by Hungarian artist Ferenc Cakó.

Acclaimed 1999 animated short film directed by Hungarian artist Ferenc Cakó. Unlike his more famous works created using sand animation, in this film Cakó uses claymation (stop-motion animation with clay or plasticine).

Sand animation film dedicated to his father's memory, who was a painter.

In a bizarre and decadent society, faceless characters are tirelessly trying to appeal to a body of bureaucrats in order to finally be allowed to have a face. Will they be happy when they can get a nose, a pair of eyes and a mouth?

Dreamlike images of a couple's life related to their involuntary separation. Letters that fly like birds to the man who struggles in the loneliness of the big city. Letters that sink into the wells of bureaucracy.

Preparing for a date is an important matter: personal hygiene, choosing the right clothes, adding that accessory that can be decisive during a conversation... Once on the street, the protagonist walks confidently toward the meeting place.

Short animation film directed by Hungarian artist Ferenc Cakó.

Short animation film directed by Hungarian artist Ferenc Cakó.

Acclaimed 1999 animated short film directed by Hungarian artist Ferenc Cakó. Unlike his more famous works created using sand animation, in this film Cakó uses claymation (stop-motion animation with clay or plasticine).

Acclaimed 1999 animated short film directed by Hungarian artist Ferenc Cakó. Unlike his more famous works created using sand animation, in this film Cakó uses claymation (stop-motion animation with clay or plasticine).

Sand animation film dedicated to his father's memory, who was a painter.

In a bizarre and decadent society, faceless characters are tirelessly trying to appeal to a body of bureaucrats in order to finally be allowed to have a face. Will they be happy when they can get a nose, a pair of eyes and a mouth?

In a bizarre and decadent society, faceless characters are tirelessly trying to appeal to a body of bureaucrats in order to finally be allowed to have a face. Will they be happy when they can get a nose, a pair of eyes and a mouth?

Dreamlike images of a couple's life related to their involuntary separation. Letters that fly like birds to the man who struggles in the loneliness of the big city. Letters that sink into the wells of bureaucracy.

Dreamlike images of a couple's life related to their involuntary separation. Letters that fly like birds to the man who struggles in the loneliness of the big city. Letters that sink into the wells of bureaucracy.

Preparing for a date is an important matter: personal hygiene, choosing the right clothes, adding that accessory that can be decisive during a conversation... Once on the street, the protagonist walks confidently toward the meeting place.

Preparing for a date is an important matter: personal hygiene, choosing the right clothes, adding that accessory that can be decisive during a conversation... Once on the street, the protagonist walks confidently toward the meeting place.

A massive army of workers sweat and strain to build a tower not unlike that of Babel. In spite of the ominous danger of the tower collapsing at any moment, they press on gloomily, incessantly forming column after column of labourers, like some enormous procession of lemmings.

A massive army of workers sweat and strain to build a tower not unlike that of Babel. In spite of the ominous danger of the tower collapsing at any moment, they press on gloomily, incessantly forming column after column of labourers, like some enormous procession of lemmings.

An impressive parable where the artist’s creativity is paralyzed by the dull crowd can be seen as a metaphor for a totalitarian system. Cleverly designed animation shows the artist as a tied man whose creativity is hindered by the crowd. A visually attractive film with very interesting editing won an award at the Annecy festival in 1983.

An impressive parable where the artist’s creativity is paralyzed by the dull crowd can be seen as a metaphor for a totalitarian system. Cleverly designed animation shows the artist as a tied man whose creativity is hindered by the crowd. A visually attractive film with very interesting editing won an award at the Annecy festival in 1983.

To the memories of my mother.

To the memories of my mother.

Animated hijinks of a man whose car just will not start, no matter what he does.

Sand animation by Hungarian artist Ferenc Cakó.

Sand animation by Hungarian artist Ferenc Cakó.

Plasticine animation about resurrection and fall of despotism by Ferenc Cakó.

Sand animation created by Hungarian artist Ferenc Cakó.

Sand animation created by Hungarian artist Ferenc Cakó.

Sand animation by Hungarian artist Ferenc Cakó.

Sand animation by Hungarian artist Ferenc Cakó.

Animated short film directed by Ferenc Cakó.

Animated short film directed by Ferenc Cakó.

Sand animation by Hungarian artist Ferenc Cakó.

Sand animation by Hungarian artist Ferenc Cakó.

An Artist violently grinds stones and uses the sand to create animated drawings. His first picture is the Garden of Eden. Once Eve becomes pregnant, all the tribulations of the real world are unleashed upon her. She follows through dream-like sequences populated with crying birds, brick-wall-faced bureaucrats and pensive philosophers in seemingly petrified poses. Irritated, repressed and allured by each other, the creatures on the screen start living a life of their own. Gradually, a dark climax builds up. Will the Artist himself be able to handle so much emotional intensity

Sand animation by Hungarian artist Ferenc Cakó.

Sand animation by Hungarian artist Ferenc Cakó.

Sand animation by Hungarian artist Ferenc Cakó.

Sand animation by Hungarian artist Ferenc Cakó.

Sand animation by Hungarian artist Ferenc Cakó. The film has been produced to commemorate the 500th anniversary of the Dózsa peasant war with the financial support of the Hungarian Media Board. It has been made with the support of the Hungarian State.

The famous Genesis, sand animation by Hungarian artist Ferenc Cakó.

The famous Genesis, sand animation by Hungarian artist Ferenc Cakó.

Sand animation by Ferenc Cakó to the sound of Carmina Burana.

Sand animation by Ferenc Cakó to the sound of Carmina Burana.

It’s that time of year when unwanted items of furniture from a Budapest tenement block are chucked out. Among the discarded antique furniture, a Thonet chair sets off on a road trip to leave the dusty urban cityscape behind and, via the concrete jungle of newbuild flats and the broken-down rust belt, finally return to nature.