Film Series - Remembering Béla Tarr

Name: Film Series - Remembering Béla Tarr
Start: 2026-05-30T17:00:00-05:00
End: 2026-05-30T19:45:00-05:00
Location: Oklahoma City Museum of Art

Schedule

Sat May 30 2026 at 05:00 pm to 07:45 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Oklahoma City Museum of Art | Oklahoma City, OK

Featuring new 4K restorations, Museum Films’ Remembering Béla Tarr series showcases monumental masterworks by the late Hungarian director that demand to be experienced in the theater. Blending dazzling formal rigor with dark humor and romanticism, Tarr’s films are profoundly influential and utterly singular.
DAMNATION | Béla Tarr | 1988 | Subtitled | 120 minutes | NR
Sat., May 9 @ 5 pm
Screening in a silvery 4K restoration, the first of Béla Tarr’s six legendary collaborations with novelist László Krasznahorkai is a rigorously stylized black‑and‑white film noir, tracing a taciturn loner’s doomed attempt to steal a lounge singer away from her debt‑addled husband.
Buy tickets: https://www.okcmoa.com/visit/events/damnation-remembering-bela-tarr/
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SÁTÁNTANGÓ | Béla Tarr | 1994 | Subtitled | 439 minutes (plus two intermissions) | NR
Sat., May 16 @ 2:30 pm
A 7.5-hour epic structured in twelve interlocking chapters, Béla Tarr’s darkly funny, visually staggering international breakthrough follows the collapse of a rural collective and the seductive promises of a returning prophet.
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WERCKMEISTER HARMONIES | Béla Tarr and Ágnes Hranitzky | 2000 | Subtitled | 145 minutes | NR
Sat., May 23 @ 5 pm
Voted one of the best films of the 2000s by Film Comment magazine, Tarr’s towering long-take masterpiece observes the unsettling changes that take hold in a small Hungarian village after the arrival of a mysterious traveling circus.
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THE TURIN HORSE | Béla Tarr and Ágnes Hranitzky | 2011 | Subtitled | 155 minutes | NR
Sat., May 30 @ 5 pm
Composed in rigorously measured long takes and photographed in stark black-and-white, Béla Tarr’s elemental final feature draws inspiration from an incident in the life of the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche to create a meditation on existence stripped to its barest essentials.
Buy tickets: https://www.okcmoa.com/visit/events/the-turin-horse-remembering-bela-tarr/
Watch the trailer: https://vimeo.com/34922540?fl=pl&fe=cm