Next Step
Tamás Patrovits
Hungary | 2025 | 5’03’’
The film consisting of countless original risograph prints is an under-the-camera, straight-ahead animation improvised to the rhythm of the scores of the Hungarian percussion group, Amadinda. The risograph prints are based on various mark-making techniques. Stamping, brush and monotype strokes, line drawings, fingerprints, letterpress accents, trace of the masking tape are mixed together in a rapid visual journey.
Direction: Tamás Patrovits
Animation: Tamás Patrovits
Music: Amadinda Percussion Group, Aurél Holló
Production: Reanimation Studio

Tamás Patrovits
Animated film director, graphic artist, and art teacher. He finished his studies at the Hungarian University of Arts and Design (now Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design) in 1994, at the faculty of animation and video. During his career, Tamás made independent, experimental animation shorts, hand-drawn and 2D computer animations, posters, illustrations. Since 1995, he teaches animation and creative visual thinking. He is the founder and president of ASIFA Hungary (Association International du Film d’Animation – Hungarian Board) since 2005, and he is the founder of other faculties and events like the Primanima World Festival of First Animations. His most recent abstract animation, Where Blue Meets Red, based on risography, was made in 2024. In the last six months, he has been selected for fesstival competition programmes and won several awards too.


