LASZLO RAJK (HUNGARY)
Production Designer & Architect
Production Designer & Architect
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Laszlo Rajk was our hero in Reykjavik, Iceland (2016) and Vilnius, Lithuania (2017).
László Rajk believes that every architect must try designing film sets, because they would learn the most important thing: how to cheat with perspectives, with lines and with forms. Only then one can design any world he imagines. This is what he teaches his students about at the University of Theatre and Film in Budapest. His personal story itself reminds of a good movie. László Rajk was a human rights activist, co-founder of an underground publishing house, owner of an illegal bookstore, a former parliamentarian, a devoted architect and a Hungarian avantgarde member. His priceless experience allowed him to realise striking and unconventional architectural projects as well as to take a part as a production designer or art director in more than 60 film sets. In 2015 László Rajk’s designed feature movie “Son of Saul” was introduced to the global community. So far, it has received 37 awards and 34 nominations, including Golden Globe in the Best Motion Picture-Foreign Language Film Category for Production Design and Oscar for The Best Foreign Language Film. In that year László Rajk received the Art Directors Guild Honors - excellence in production design for a contemporary feature film: The Martian directed by Ridley Scott. László Rajk does not distinguish film directors by their achievements and as an artist rooted into avantgarde, he often chooses to work for independent cinema and projects of early- stage filmmakers. At the beginning of his carrier, he worked as an art director with Costa Gavras movie “The Music Box”, and twenty years later with the one of the most acknowledged Hungarian director Bela Tarr on his last two movies “Man from London” and “The Turin Horse”, but was the production designer for the very first movie of László Nemes “With A Little Patient”. With László Nemes they recently finished shooting “Sunset”, which takes place in 1913 in Budapest. |
