"In times of war, we dream of war." Dream fragments, Dadaist scenes, analogue film and experimental live music—we invite you to a surrealistic journey with the Buharov brothers and their Antimilitarist Salon in Trafó's Main Hall.

Known as experimental filmmakers, but also working in the fields of visual art, music and performance, the Buharov brothers are preparing a new large-scale multimedia performance after their celebrated Eternal Intention Field Tuning, which was presented in the headquarters of the Vasas Trade Union in collaboration with tranzit.hu and Trafó.

Together with actors, performers and musicians of the Antimilitarist Salon, they revisit and transform the anti-war texts and dreams collected by Emil Szittya–an avant-garde artist and anarchist vagabond of Hungarian origin who spent most of his life in France and Germany–into a cutting edge commentary on current wars and militarization. Emil Szittya collected dreams from acquaintances and strangers in occupied France during the Second World War, creating an evocative and haunting depiction of how people from different walks of life, victims as well as perpetrators, experience and process war, mixing surrealistic and absurd, yet devastatingly visceral elements,. The performance at Trafó is a continuation of the artistic research and film installation We Anarchists Do Not Fret Over Moral Maggots presented at Kassák Museum in 2023, but also draws on the underground performances of the Antimilitarist Salon’s Boycott Propaganda events.

Nándor Hevesi and Kornél Szilágyi have been making experimental arthouse films for almost thirty years under the moniker Igor and Ivan Buharov. Their work has been screened at film festivals and cinemas, as well as at prestigious art biennials and exhibitions: Manifesta 8 Murcía, Kyiv Biennale, Documenta 14, Art Encounters Timisoara, steirischer herbst Graz, OFF Biennale Budapest 2021. Their latest feature film, Land of Warm Waters (2022), has been featured at 12 international festivals and won the main prize in Belgrade, Paris and Genova.