Tibor Máthé
Béla Balázs Award-winning and Kossuth Award-winning cinematographer
“Máthé's art is never clearly visible or striking, it does not expose itself saying 'please, pay a little attention to the cinematographer, too' - it is latent and hiding, and exactly this makes it effective. We do not even recognize the moment when we accept its perspective and opinion on the characters of its story. It directs our imagination and our feelings unnoticed and without mistake. If the imagery of a film is a unified whole either softly embracing the viewers or building cold walls around them, if we see nothing artificial, if we cannot notice the heavy equipment behind an absorbing story, if we see no effort but only a simple beauty, then we can recognize the work of Tibor Máthé. The cinematographer perfectly melts in with his creation. In Tibor Máthé's art, it is not the equipment that is interesting, but the task it serves to accomplish, and the way he can finally manage to bend the objects to his will.”
