moving images
I create experimental moving images that merge visual art, sound and my performances. Working with film, video, new media and AI-generated imagery, I combine digital processes with analogue footage to explore layered narratives.
Color therapy/ Színterápia (I am not crying...)
An audiovisual experiment in which layered moving images respond to the sound waves of a choral piece based on Sándor PetÅ‘fi’s poem I Am Not Crying, linking emotional and visual experience within the work’s therapeutic process. Assembled from found footage, the sequences are digitally manipulated into a new narrative.
Resonance in Static
Flickering monochrome textures and fractured soundscapes merge into a hypnotic meditation. Noise becomes both the medium and the message.
INVISIBLE / video performance
The video performance sheds light on the often-overlooked labor of motherhood. Through a symbolic and humorous act of repeatedly crossing a pedestrian crosswalk while burdened with everyday objects, Pátkai captures the physical and emotional weight mothers carry. The piece confronts societal expectations and calls for recognition of invisible domestic work, inviting viewers to reflect on shared responsibility and the need for systemic change. LINK
Fish in the Net/ Halak a hálóban
In the video by Rozina Pátkai, titled “Fish in the Net,” poetry, music, and sign language blend together, using the János Pilinszky´s poem as a appoint of departure. The footage was shot by Székács Dániel and Molnár Viktor, with the assistance of sign language interpreter Julianna Kompán. The video was edited by Székács Dániel, based on Pátkai Rozina’s artistic concept.
fekete ország / black land
This music video by Rozina Pátkai was created from found 16 mm footage, re-edited to Mihály Babits’s poem Black Land. The original material, a propaganda film, is stripped of its intended message and reconfigured to evoke the poem’s underlying themes of suppression and human struggle.
Áhitat / Devotion
By overlaying Miklós Erdély’s experimental film visuals onto live performers, Áhítat embodies his spirit of interdisciplinary experimentation, uniting film, performance, and poetry in a single act of Devotion.
Sea Song
In Sea Song, based on Jane Tyson Clement’s poem, singer Rozina Pátkai and her daughter move through a dreamlike visual narrative of closeness and reflection, conceived and directed by Pátkai. Flowing between the quiet intimacy and the surreal imagery of mirrored selves, the video flows like a tide, carrying the viewer into a world of inner stillness.
Here and Now
In Here and Now, Rozina Pátkai’s musical interpretation and Mila Taraczky’s hypnotic visual layering reveals a new dimension of János Pilinszky’s poetic essence of presence. Creating a timeless space where attention itself becomes the act of creation.
Invention of the Future
Reimagining the past: built from a manipulated 8 mm film originally created during Dániel Erdély’s EXIT / el performance (1980), Rozina Pátkai reassembles found footage through digital intervention, layering it with her own musical setting of a poem by Miklós Erdély. Drawn from analogue celluloid, performance, poetry, and contemporary sound, these elements are lifted from their original contexts to unite in this Invention of the Future.
Vertical Moment: Alphabetical
Moving constellations of letters come together to form shapes, then dissolve back into streams of typographic noise. The image lives only through language. Created as part of the Vertical Moment installation, the video is set to a musical interpretation of Ágnes Nemes Nagy’s poem The Geyser, which contains the line “vertical moment".
Rozina Pátkai: Kínai templom / Chinese temple
Rozina Pátkai reimagines Sándor Weöres’s poetic garden as a living panopticon, where elements from paintings by Klee, Raphael, and Da Vinci drift through shifting collage landscapes. Created from collages by Pátkai using the Mixerpiece App by Giuseppe Ragazzini, the work is animated by Gábor Karcis and edited by Dániel Székács. The video combines fine art motifs, personal footage, and electronic music into a dreamlike space where imagination takes flight.