Felvidek Caught in Between

In her documentary on HungarianSlovak relations Vladislava Plancíková focuses on the word felvidék which refers to the now nonexistent northern part of AustroHungary In a personal collage consisting of the stories of members of her SlovakHungarian family and of visual references to historical events she follows the eventful and today often taboo history of the postwar fate of Hungarians on Slovak soil The abstract topic grabs our interest not only through the witnesses testimony but also by using thre novel technique of animating real objects including a number of contemporary and modern photographs