Zsolt Gyenge is a fan of subversive, boundary-pushing, edge-of-your-seat films, actively seeking the mysteries of avant-garde attitudes, and chasing experiences that provoke thought through the senses. He would be pleased if, confronted with themselves, his students questioned the world around them during his classes. He would like to believe that the left-wing values of solidarity, sustainability, and fairness can someday result in a better world.
Biography
Film theorist, film critic, and associate professor with habilitation at the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design. He completed his studies in history and art history at the Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca. His book Image, Motion Picture, Perception: A Theory of Phenomenological Film Analysis (Kép, mozgókép, megértés: Egy fenomenológiai filmelemzés elmélete) was published in 2017. His studies have appeared in Hungarian and international journals as well as edited volumes in both English and Hungarian.
He has been active as a freelance film critic since 2000, and his writings have appeared in publications such as Revizor (Auditor), Filmvilág (The World of Film), ÉS (Life and Literature), Prizma (Prism), Filmtett, and Balkon (Balcony). He has been a lecturer at MOME since 2007, and he has been the editor of the academic journal Disegno - Journal of Design Culture since 2013. He is a member of film critic associations, both domestically (Film and Television Critics Section of the National Association of Hungarian Journalists) and internationally (International Federation of Film Critics). He is also a member of the Hungarian Film Studies Society and the European Network for Cinema and Media Studies.
His research and his academic publications focus on the viewer's experience of various forms of moving pictures, and the role of bodily perception in the interpretation of reception.