A subject of scandal and concern

John Wyver writes: Tonight the Liszt Institute – the Hungarian Cultural Centre in London is screening Robert Vas’ film essay My Homeland. Made for BBC’s Omnibus strand in 1976, this draws on a century and more of Hungarian poetry, film, photography, music and graphics to weave a powerful, poetic and deeply personal response to the Soviet repression of the 1956 Revolution. (Above is framegrab illustrating also the film’s self-reflexivity.) My Homeland is a film about memory and history and exile and landscape and resilience and friendship and hope and belonging and identity and the power of art — and apart from this showing it is almost impossible to see. (The event is sold out, but there is a wait list; I been involved in organising the showing, and will be contributing to the post-screening discussion, as a last-minute replacement for Professor James Jordan.) That My Homeland is not widely available to be celebrated and written about and taught is, simply and straightforwardly, a…

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