Documentary
Personal, visual storytelling
Our films
Documentary
Kaláka
The legendary Hungarian ensemble, Kaláka, has been putting poetry to music for 55 years.
Documentary
56/Z
Documentary Short
Wagner Ranch, Outdoor Education in Orinda, CA
This is the story of the 50 year-old Wagner Ranch Nature Area and its outdoor area programs, told by the beloved Toris Jaeger, Director of Outdoor Education for the WRNA.
Documentary
Memory Project 1956/2021
More than 60 years after the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, eyewitnesses to the first and most significant uprising against the tyranny of the Soviet Union share their personal stories of survival and resilience.
Documentary Archive
Memory Project
Andrea Lauer Rice and Réka Pigniczky co-founded the Memory Project, a community-wide initiative, in 2015. Both daughters of 1956-ers, Andrea and Réka have worked together for the past 20 years. The Memory Project is their joint project to help document and record the personal stories of Hungarians who emigrated to the United States after the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 and as displaced persons after World War II.
Documentary
Kazár: From the Cradle to the Grave
Kazár: from the Cradle to the Grave introduces the traditional and highly elaborate folk costume of Kazár, a small village in north-eastern Hungary.
Documentary
Journey Home: A Story from the Hungarian Revolution of 1956
The film is about Réka and her sister Eszti trying to find out what their father did as a freedom fighter during the Hungarian Revolution of 1956.
Documentary
Inkubátor
…A documentary film about the transformation of an exile community nearly twenty years after the end of the Cold War.
Installation
The Memory Project 1956/2016
This video installation was a collaboration between Réka Pigniczky/Memory Project and the Collegium Hungaricum Berlin for the 60th anniversary of the Hungarian Revolution. It consisted of 6 short videos of interviews with 10 Hungarians who fled to Germany after 1956. The exhibit was held from October 17 – November 30, 2016 in Berlin, Germany.
Documentary
The Life of László Hudec (the man who built Shanghai)
Documentary short about the architect who changed the face of Shanghai in the 1920's.
Documentary
Cold Warriors
In Rummerfield, Pennsylvania at the height of the Cold War, a handful of young American-Hungarians were ready to fight for freedom in a homeland they barely knew. Nearly half a century later, in 2016, they return to the remote, run-down farm along the Susquehanna River, to the revolution of their past - and the dreams of their youth. This is an unusual class reunion that speaks about the Iron Curtain, the Cold War and being a hyphenated American. About having two homelands - and one sense of justice.
Documentary
Kodály on the Cuyahoga
Television documentary, 2013 Duna World
Documentary
Heritage
Documentary film, 2011