Iluminace 2025, 37(1):95-98 | DOI: 10.58193/ilu.1800

Move on Down. Precarity in Contemporary Hungarian Cinema

László Strausz ORCID...
Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary

This video essay engages with the topic of precarity in feature films produced in Hungary around and after the regime change of 1989, which launched tectonic social transformations leading to widespread instability. The essay confronts precarity as downward intragenerational mobility from an economic and social perspective from the final years of state socialism until the present. As an audiovisual product, the video documents the author’s efforts to move beyond the disembodied voice of academic texts and experiment with accent as a marker of social entanglement.

Keywords: precarity, Hungarian cinema, regime change, social instability

Received: January 17, 2025; Accepted: May 2, 2025; Prepublished online: June 9, 2025; Published: June 11, 2025  Show citation

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Strausz, L. (2025). Move on Down. Precarity in Contemporary Hungarian Cinema. Iluminace, 37(1), 95-98. doi: 10.58193/ilu.1800
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