![]() ![]() The composition of movies photos and documents are arranged as a collage that suggests the fragmentedness of her experience. The sensitive collage of story telling and private films made by Bán’s father in Brazil during the 1950s the period when Karády arrived to Brazil. The parallel worlds of the text, the music of János Másik, and the moving images enrich each other producing a sensual composition that addresses issues related to space, time, as well as private and collective history. Bán’s voice-over narrates Karády’s fictional story. Forgács’s video, Venom – A Diva in Exile (2016) is based on Hungarian author Zsófia Bán’s eponymous short story that addresses the relation between the past, love, losses, and snakes, and in which she writes into a little-known episode from Hungary’s tangled and traumatic pre–and post–World War II history, centered around film star and singer Katalin Karády.
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