Sándor Reisenbüchler

Sometime not too far in the future a revolution takes place in a certain country. A special dictatorship, the Smokers' Society. The changes of the revolution transform the structures of the society radically. On top of hierarchy stands the Doctor Prime Minister. The main characters live in this country that has its own laws. They have something in common: they do nothing.

An animated collage of life in the terrifying modern age.

An animated collage of life in the terrifying modern age.

The Sun and the Moon are stolen by a vicious creature.

The Sun and the Moon are stolen by a vicious creature.

An absurd animated vision of a civilization taking over Earth, served with a side order of extremely wry sarcasm.

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The utopian vision of a lunar spacecraft voyage that will affect life on Earth.

A technological civilization takes three intelligent salamander creatures captive to conduct experiments on them. The experiments go awry and the salamander creatures wreak havoc in the city of humans.

Dedicated to the memory of Fritz Lang, this rarely seen late short from Sándor Reisenbüchler offers up an eye-popping ecological vision. Moving from frantic cityscapes bursting with lurid colours and a phantasmagoria of commodities to idyllic pastoral scenes, Ecotopia combines Reisenbüchler’s talent as a painter with his love of collage to skewer consumerism in the post-communist nineties.

The toil of an ink blot until, finally, a letter emerges from it. The abstract film draws attention to the global issue of illiteracy.

An animated collage of the battle between Napoleon and Kutuzov, set to Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture.

An animated collage of the battle between Napoleon and Kutuzov, set to Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture.

The Inauguration of a Mechanical Bird in 2895, in New York City. The 4-minute burlesque motion picture with silent picture-style intertitles mocks the naively utopian world of the Victorian age. The film was inspired by the bitter satires of the elderly Jules Verne, in which a distorting mirror is held up to American civilization

A short animation that depicts the drowning of a village by modern technology.

An encapsulation of the beat generation and its attempts to break out portrayed through collages

This pulsating collage animation interwoven with folk art elements is a warning of the dangers of extinction, in which an organism is connected to each day of the week.

This animated film with hints of Monty Python satire and early 20th century burlesque has Earthlings land on Mars with the intention of bringing peace to the warring natives.

Collage animation by Sándor Reisenbüchler, with references to the director’s personal life.

Experimental collage animation that covers decades of art, culture, technology, etc.