Overview
- The announcement was relayed via Hungary’s MTI by filmmaker Bence Fliegauf on behalf of Tarr’s family, and the family asked the press and public not to seek statements.
- Tarr made nine features from Family Nest (1979) to The Turin Horse (2011), after which he largely stopped directing features.
- Landmark works like Sátántangó and Werckmeister Harmonies exemplified his long-take, black-and-white style and shaped directors including Jim Jarmusch and Gus Van Sant.
- He frequently collaborated with novelist László Krasznahorkai and with his partner and co-director Ágnes Hranitzky on later films.
- In later years he founded the Sarajevo-based film.factory and taught widely, while remaining politically outspoken and receiving the European Film Academy Honorary Award in 2023.