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Peter Foldès

AKA: Peter Foldes
Birthday: 1924-08-22
Died: 1977-03-29
Birthplace: Budapest, Hungary


Budapest-born Peter Foldes (1924-1977) was one of a number of Hungarian artists (another was the film's composer Mátyás Seiber) who ended up working with fellow countryman John Halas on the latter's animated films after he moved to Britain in 1946. After leaving Halas, Foldes made a number of animated films in collaboration with his British wife Joan (b. 1924), starting with the allegorical Animated Genesis (1952), On Closer Inspection (1953) and A Short Vision (1956). A Short Vision became one of the most influential British animated films ever made, when it was screened on US television as part of the popular Ed Sullivan Show. Although children were advised to leave the room while it played, it still caused outrage and alarm with its graphic representation of the horrors of nuclear war. In the film, wild creatures flee in terror as a strange missile flies overhead. As it passes over the sleeping city, the world's leaders and wise men look upwards. The missile explodes, destroying humans, wild creatures and the Earth itself. It caught the mood of the times, since the mid-1950s was the height of both the Cold War and nuclear paranoia. Foldes later moved to Paris, where he became an early pioneer in computer animation. In the 1960s, he worked for the Research Service of the ORTF. He is one of the pioneers of computer animation with his film Hunger, which received the Jury Prize in the "short film" category at Cannes Film Festival as well as an Academy Award nomination. (from WIkipedia)

Filmography

The Animograph, or I Was Born in a Shoebox
Character: Self (archive footage)
Dream
Job: Director
Hunger
Job: Director

Visage
Job: Director
I. You. They.
Job: Director
A Short Vision
Job: Director

A Short Vision
Job: Writer
On Closer Inspection
Job: Cinematography
On Closer Inspection
Job: Director

On Closer Inspection
Job: Producer
A Short Vision
Job: Producer

Metadata
Job: Director
Narcissus-Echo
Job: Director
ElectroRythmes
Job: Director

A Boy Full of Future
Job: Director
Plus vite
Job: Director
A Bird's Appetite.
Job: Director

La Belle cérébrale
Job: Director
Eveil
Job: Director
Visages de Femmes
Job: Director

Animated Genesis
Job: Director
Animated Genesis
Job: Editor
Animated Genesis
Job: Animation

Animated Genesis
Job: Director of Photography
Animated Genesis
Job: Story
Animated Genesis
Job: Producer

I. You. They.
Job: Animation
I. You. They.
Job: Writer
Bongo Fuego
Job: Director

Au-delà du temps
Job: Director