László Csáki

In 2002 he graduated from the Hungarian University of Arts and Design’s (now Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design) Department of Visual Communication, János Szirtes was his teacher and mentor. He is an interdisciplinary artist, who feels equally comfortable creating animated film, live-action short film, documentary, music video or an advertisement. His photography, marquetry and print-based artworks were presented at solo and group exhibitions in Hungary and abroad. He is both an auteur and creates work on commission. From 2005 to 2015, he was a lecturer of animation and media design at MOME, and from 2006 to 2008 he was the head of the media design programme. Since 2013 he has been teaching animation at the Budapest Metropolitan University. Currently he is working on his film Blue Pelikan, which is about the forged rail ticket fever in Hungary following the collapse of the Soviet empire, when young people tricked the system to travel to the West. Blue Pelikan will be the first Hungarian feature-length animated documentary.