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Monday
TV and ME | Grassroot TV experiments, TV between private and public
| TIME | LANG | SUBS | TITLE | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 00:00 | MIX | Ghost hour | wandering with ghosts into associative archive audio material from free and not-so-free spirits | ||
| 01:01 | MIX | - | Sendepause // Transmission Break | Meditations for your fish (or the other way around) | |
| 08:00 | EN | Welcome to TV Free Europe | Programme start morning section. Welcome in the Future of '89! | ||
| 08:19 | Pandemic Picnic | Original footage about the Pan-European Picnic of 1989 | |||
| 09:11 | HU | - | Border Opening Minutes | #ironcurtain #határsáv movie by Pehi László, footage from the Austro-Hungarian border | |
| 09:30 | MIX | - | Sendepause | Transmission Break | cooking show, sendepause, commercials | |
| 11:09 | MIX | - | Falling Wall Minutes | footage about the fall of the Berlin Wall | |
| 11.15 | MIX | Influencing Machine | rather surprising commercials from the 80s | ||
 | 11:50 | MIX | - | Sendepause | Transmission Break | Meditations for your fish (or the other way around) |
 | 12:00 | MIX | - | Ghost hour | wandering with ghosts into associative archive audio material from free and not-so-free spirits |
 | 13.01 | HU | Another Movie: Civil Technics - Fidesz | Civil Technikák - Fidesz | |
| 14:14 | MIX | Influencing Machine | Commercials, Trailers, TV reflections | ||
| 15:15 | EN | About TV Free Europe | Self interviews about TVFE from all studios || Studio Budapest at Tilos Rádió -- discussion about TV Free Europe with Zsuzsa Berecz and Sarah Günther @Tilos Rádió by Júlia Ránki | ||
| 16:20 | EN, HU | TV and Me: Studio Budapest live show at Gólya | aka watching TV together live and live live while cooking potatoes at the community rooftop of Gólya | ||
| 17:00 | EN, HU | Youth Afternoon | with dr Purple's music boutique, Studio Internationale, games | ||
| 17:30 | EN, HU | HANGMAN - Forbidden A | Daily game show of fortune, freedom and fear - in several parts during the day, feat.Mari&Marie | ||
 | 18:30 | EN, HU | Reading Circle: a film, a fridge and social democracy | Housing television: a film, a fridge and social democracy by John Hartley (essay from his book: Uses of Television) | |
 | 19:56 | EN, HU | Revolutionary minutes | Work and System Change - an audiovisionary with archive material of Radio Free Europe, Klub Rádió and others about the workers' situation in Hungary around 1989 - feat. György Krassó, Erzsébet Szalai, Viktor Orbán & others | |
 | 20:30 | HU, EN | Evening Movie: TV and me | Documentary about Alexa, a fan of television channels carefully preserving the myth of TV with relic collections, pilgrims and photo albums. Directed by Bojána Papp | |
 | 21:10 | HU, EN | Another Evening Movie: Culture Hill | a film about Hungarian underground resistance art in the 70s by György Galántai made in 1992 | |
 | 22:30 | EN, HU | Hangman: The Big Final | Who will be the winner today for the TV Holiday Price? |
Tuesday
Fear Free | Censorship, Paranoia and Oppression
| TIME | LANG | SUB | TITLE | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 00:00 | Ghost hour | ||||
| 01:01 | EN | Alternative Erotics | Some hours of mixed feelings feat. erotics, pop(o), border zone experiences - Do communists have better sex? - a BBC documenrary - K2 - a film about prostitutes in Hungary at the end of the 1980s | ||
| 02:00 | Sendepause // Transmission Break | Meditations for your fish (or the other way around) | |||
| 08:00 | EN | Welcome to TV Free Europe | Programme start morning section. Welcome in the Future of '89! | ||
| 08:06 | Flora & Fauna | ||||
| 08:19 | Pandemic Picnic | Original footage about the Pan-European Picnic of 1989 | |||
| 09:11 | Border opening minutes | Opening borders between 9:11 and 11:9 Pand(acad)emic Picnic of TV Free Europe on 12. 09.2020 at the occupied Theatre and Film Academy Budapest feat. Gergely Karácsony, mayor of Budapest | |||
| 10:00 | HU/EN | Oracle NEWS | Predictions of the present - feat. Fukuyama and Sándor Weöres | ||
| 10:32 | Influencing Machine | commercials and anticommercials | |||
| 11:09 | Falling Wall Minutes | Daily falling walls on TVFE | |||
| 12:00 | - | - | Ghost Hour | ||
| 13:01 | Another Movie - The Trap - F*** You, Buddy! | An Adam Curtis documentary on what happened to our freedom (2007) | |||
| 14:00 | EN | Welcome to TV Free Europe | Programme start afternoon section. Welcome in the Future of '89! | ||
| 14:06 | About TV Free Europe | What is TV Free Europe and why? - statements from all studio/ What others say about us; Studio Budapest at Tilos Rádió - Discussion about TV Free Europe with Zsuzsa Berecz and Sarah Günther @Tilos Rádió by Júlia Ránki | |||
| 15:00 | EN, HU | HANGMAN - Forbidden A | Daily game show of fortune, freedom and fear - in several parts during the day, feat.Mari&Marie | ||
| 14:55 | DE | Another movie - Haroun Farocki - Arbeiter verlassen die Fabrik | Haroun Farocki - Arbeiter verlassen die Fabrik | ||
 | 15:30 | HU | Reading Circle - Workers' councils in Hungary | The World of Work - reading circle in Hungarian about workers' councils around 1989 | |
| 17:00 | Youth Afternoon | Programme mix feat. Dr. Purple's Music Boutique; The Air Factory - a documentary by Zöld Pók from Studio Budapest; Youth Afternoon by Studio Szombathely; footage from Tårnby Park Studio and HANGMAN game show with Mari&Marie | |||
 | 19:56 | HU | Revolutionary minutes - Work and System Change | An audiovisionary with archive material of Radio Free Europe, Klub Rádió and others about the workers' situation in Hungary around 1989 - feat. György Krassó, Erzsébet Szalai, Viktor Orbán & others | |
 | 20:30 | Evening Movie: Predictions of Fire | A 1996 documentary film by US filmmaker Michael Benson about Neue Slowenische Kunst (NSK) collective. A surprising insight into the Yugoslav conflict and the ongoing trauma experienced by generations of Eastern Europeans raised in totalitarian regimes. | ||
| 22:05 | Oracle NEWS | Predictions of the present - feat. Sting, Isaac Asimov. Hurricane HUGO and others | |||
| 22:25 | This Changes Everything - late night show | Docu about the the tragicomic duo Mari&Marie's late night show on change & climate organised by TASZ (Budapest 2019) | |||
| 22:35 | Hangman: The Big Final | Who will be the winner today for the TV Holiday Price? | |||
| 22:45 | Another Movie - The Trap, Episode 2: The Lonely Robot | An Adam Curtis documentary on what happened to our freedom (2007) | |||
| 23:45 | Influencing Machine | commercials and anticommercials |
Wednesday
1.5 million steps over the borders | Borders, Public Sphere, Border Crossings
| TIME | LANG | SUB | TITLE | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 00:00 | - | - | Ghost hour | #spirits #wandering / produced by Studio Budapest | |
| 01:01 | - | - | Sendepause / Transmission break | Meditations for your fish (or the other way around) | |
| 08:00 | TV Free Europe Program Start | Welcome to the future of '89, welcome to TV Free Europe | |||
| 08:19 | Pandemic Picnic | Original footage about the Pan-European Picnic of 1989 | |||
| 09:00 | HU, EN | Oracle news | news from the past and other times | ||
| 09:11 | Border opening minutes | daily border openings on TVFE | |||
| 09:50 | - | - | Flora & Fauna | wildlife in the border region | |
| 11:09 | Falling wall minutes | daily falling walls on TVFE | |||
| 12:00 | - | - | Ghost hour | #spirits #wandering #still_walking / produced by Studio Budapest | |
| 13:05 | Travel magazine: In Search of the Saga Donkey | searching for the borders of public space, a short video series by Pneuma Szöv. (Studio Budapest) | |||
 | 13:45 | HU, EN | Another movie: Dunaszaurusz | detailed chronicle of the late 80's and the Gabčíkovo–Nagymaros Dams // a documentary movie by Ádám Csillag | |
| 16:10 | HU | Travel magazine: ways of travelling | |||
| 16:30 | HU, EN | Youth Afternoon | Hungarian youth subculture in 1989 and in the future of '89, featuring archive TV reports and recent videos produced by Studio Szombathely | ||
 | 17:25 | HU | Travel magazine: 1.5 million steps over the border | following the blue hiking trail in the far-west corner of Hungary, in the evergreen tv programme from 1979 | |
| 18:10 | Travel magazine: Free spaces in Szombathely | searching for former and present free spaces in Szombathely - forgotten stories, talking statues and lost free time in a bike tour and time travel by Studio Szombathely | |||
| 19:00 | News | news from the past and other parallel times | |||
 | 19:30 | DE, EN | GrenezerfahrungsQuiz | open-air quiz show on the borders by tragicomic duo Mari&Marie - or how well you know what has happened in '89? / produced by Studio Budapest, 2019 | |
| 19:40 | News & Sports | news from the future of '89, produced by Studio Szombathely, then Sport - fascinating Forma 1 round in a changing enviroment | |||
 | 19:56 | DE, HU, EN | Revolutionary minutes: Paneuropean Picnic | paneuropean picnic | |
 | 20:30 | DE, EN | Evening Movie: Die Eiserne Grenze / The Iron border | the border fence connects and separtes a young Hungarian border guard and an Austrian woman / a film by Peter Wagner, curated by Studio Oberwart | |
| 22:15 | Hangman - The Big Final | Who will be the winner today for the TV Holiday Price in TV Free Europe's legendary gameshow? | |||
 | 22:30 | DE | Late night talk show | Talk show on the the role and future of local televisions, on both sides of the At-HU border / produced by Studio Oberwart |
Thursday
AGENTS AND AMATEURS | Underground and Political Art
| TIME | LANG | SUBS | TITLE | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 00:00 | - | - | Ghost hour | wandering with ghosts into associative archive audio material from free and not-so-free spirits | |
| 01:01 | - | - | Sendepause // Transmission Break | Meditations for your fish (or the other way around) | |
| 08:19 | Pandemic Picnic | Original footage about the Pan-European Picnic of 1989 | |||
| 09:00 | EN | Welcome to TV Free Europe | Programme start morning section. Welcome in the Future of '89! | ||
| 09:11 | HU | Border Opening Minutes | #ironcurtain #határsáv movie by Pehi László, footage from the Austro-Hungarian border | ||
| 09:25 | HU | Morning Agents & Amateurs Movies: Szennyhullám 1 & 2 by Partizán | documentary about the punk scene in Hungary by Partizán, episode 1&2: Spions, Beatrice, Bikini, Rottens | ||
| 11:09 | MIX | Falling Wall Minutes | footage about the fall of the Berlin Wall | ||
 | 11:33 | Agents & Amateurs in the entertainment industry | music clips, talkshows filled with agents and amateurs (Klaus Meine, Cyndi Lauper, Nina Hagen, Hape Kerkeling) | ||
| 12:00 | MIX | Ghost hour | #spirits #wandering / produced by Studio Budapest | ||
 | 13:01 | EN | Sendepause | Transmission Break | Meditations for your fish (or the other way around) | |
| 13:50 | HU | Agents & Amateurs Movie: Szennyhullám 3 by Partizán | documentary about the punk scene in Hungary by Partizán, episode 3: CPg | ||
| 14:45 | EN | Agents & Amateurs Movie: In Search of the Saga Donkey | searching for the borders of public space, a short video series by Pneuma Szöv. (Studio Budapest) | ||
| 15:00 | DA, EN | Tårnby Park Studio - Talk show | #taarnbyparkstudio | ||
| 16:00 | HU, EN | Youth Afternoon | Gameshows, then Music clips feat. Dr. Purple's Music Boutique; Studio Szombathely; and Studio Internationale | ||
 | 16:53 | DE | Agents & Amateurs feat Studio Leipzig | Music block feat Zonic #studioleipzig | |
| 18:00 | HU | Agents & Amateurs feat Pneuma Szöv. | documentary material of different works of Pneuma Szöv. - Dialogue about homlessness, Szappanoperett, etc | ||
| 18:55 | DA | Agents & Amateurs feat Tårnby Park Studio | material produced in and by Studio Tårnby - picnic, action, talkshow | |
 | 19:56 | MIX | Revolutionary minutes - Agents | Breaking news about some Agents - or OF some Agents? // (AG Geige, TV Party, Laurie Anderson, Sidney Lumet - Network, Hape Kerkeling) | |
 | 20:30 | HU | Evening Movie: Inconnu / Ismeretlenek (excerpt) | 3rd episode of János Gulyás's Interview docu about an action of the Hungarian group of maverick fine artists from the communist era | |
| 21:48 | DA, EN | Studio Tårnby Talk show 2.0 | #taarnbyparkstudio |
Friday
THE VISION MACHINE | Pearls of TV history / in the Past, Present and Future
| TIME | LANG | SUBS | TITLE | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 00:00 | - | - | Ghost hour | wandering with ghosts into associative archive audio material from free and not-so-free spirits | |
| 01:01 | MIX | - | Sendepause | Transmission Break | Meditations for your fish (or the other way around) | |
| 08:19 | Pandemic Picnic | Original footage about the Pan-European Picnic of 1989 | |||
| 09:00 | EN | Welcome to TV Free Europe | Programme start morning section. Welcome in the Future of '89! | ||
| 09:11 | HU | - | Border Opening Minutes | #ironcurtain #határsáv movie by Pehi László, footage from the Austro-Hungarian border | |
| 09:24 | MIX | - | Influencing Machine // Commercials | rather surprising commercials from the 80s | |
| 09:30 | MIX | - | The Vision Machine | material realted to the history and the potentials of television (híradó, Lumiere Brothers, Chris Burden, How old TVs work, Mechanical Television, John Cage, Philco Predicta, Philo T Farnsworth, The first Betamax, Network - Sidney Lumet, Videocracy - Bercusconi) | |
| 11:09 | MIX | - | Falling Wall Minutes | footage about the fall of the Berlin Wall | |
 | 11:30 | MIX | - | The Vision Machine | material realted to the history and the potentials of television (I've got a secret - Philo T Farnsworth) |
 | 12:00 | - | - | Ghost hour | #spirits #wandering / produced by Studio Budapest |
 | 13:30 | EN, HU | HANGMAN - Forbidden A | Daily game show of fortune, freedom and fear - in several parts during the day, feat.Mari&Marie | |
 | 14:00 | MIX | - | Youth Afternoon with Reading Circle | Music clips feat. Dr. Purple's Music Boutique; Studio Szombathely; and Studio Internationale then READING CIRCLE with 14.22 a film, a fridge and social democracy 15:40 Virilio |
 | 17:00 | MIX | - | The Vision Machine | material realted to the history and the potentials of television (postcards, thinking about TV, Paul Valéry, Philo Farnsworth, mechanics of television, Chris Burden commercials, John Cage Waterwalk, and many more) |
 | 19:56 | MIX | - | Revolutionary minutes - Vision Machine | filmhíradó |
 | 20:30 | EN | Evening Movie: Paper Tiger TV | A DOCUMENTARY about and BROADCASTS from Paper Tiger TV, a non-profit, low-budget public access television program and open media collective functioning up to these days dedicated to raising media literacy and challenging corporate control over broadcast mediums. | |
 | 22:30 | EN, HU | Hangman: The Big Final | Who will be the winner today for the TV Holiday Price? |
Saturday
Destination: FREEDOM | Looking for freedom
| TIME | LANG | SUB | TITLE | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 00:00 | - | - | Ghost hour | wandering with ghosts into associative archive audio material from free and not-so-free spirits | |
| 01:01 | MIX | - | Sendepause // Transmission Break | Meditations for your fish (or the other way around) | |
| 08:19 | Pandemic Picnic | Original footage about the Pan-European Picnic of 1989 | |||
| 09:00 | EN | Welcome to TV Free Europe | Programme start morning section. Welcome in the Future of '89! | ||
| 09:11 | HU | - | Border Opening Minutes | #ironcurtain #határsáv movie by Pehi László, footage from the Austro-Hungarian border | |
| 09:30 | - | - | Sendepause | Transmission Break | Meditations for your fish (or the other way around) | |
| 11:09 | MIX | - | Falling Wall Minutes | footage about the fall of the Berlin Wall | |
| 12:00 | - | - | Ghost hour | #spirits #wandering / produced by Studio Budapest | |
| 13:01 | EN | Early Youth Afternoon: Haircut ConditionAIR | Hair cutting gameshow designed by chance | ||
 | 14:30 | EN | - | Reading Circle: How Capitalism Died | Yanis Varoufakis: Another Now - How Capitalism Died |
| 16:37 | MIX | Early TV Party | Music clips for the celebration of freedom | ||
| 17:00 | EN, HU | HANGMAN - Forbidden A | Daily game show of fortune, freedom and fear - feat.Mari&Marie | ||
| 17:30 | MIX | - | Youth Afternoon | Music clips feat. Dr. Purple's Music Boutique; Studio Szombathely; and Studio Internationale | |
| 18:00 | MIX | Destination: Freedom | footage and comments on demonstrations, civil disobedience, resistance, protests (Hachalu, Belarus, szfe, Austria) | ||
 | 19:56 | MIX | - | Blockada Block - Revolutionary minutes | News and relevant archive material around the Evening Movie |
 | 20:30 | CRO, HU | Evening Movie: Blokada | a unique view from within on the most massive, longest, and politically most significant student protest in Croatia, since 1971 | |
 | 22:03 | CRO, EN | Evening Movie: Blokada | a unique view from within on the most massive, longest, and politically most significant student protest in Croatia, since 1971 | |
| 23:40 | EN, HU | Hangman: the big final | Who will be the winner today for the TV Holiday Price? |
Sunday
The wall | The Fall of the Wall
| TIME | LANG | SUBS | TITLE | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 00:00 | Ghost hour | wandering with ghosts into associative archive audio material from free and not-so-free spirits | |||
| 01:01 | Sendepause // Transmission Break | Meditations for your fish (or the other way around) | |||
| 08:19 | MIX | Pandemic Picnic | Original footage about the Pan-European Picnic of 1989 | ||
| 08:55 | EN | Oracle news | news from the past and other times | ||
| 09:11 | Border opening minutes | In Prison in the GDR – Gabriele Stötzer / Fighting against the Regime with Art | |||
 | 10:30 | EN | HANGMAN - the entire season | the entire season of the famous game show with Mari&Marie / produced by Studio Budapest | |
| 12:00 | - | - | Ghost hour | #spirits #wandering / produced by Studio Budapest | |
| 13:01 | EN | Welcome to TV Free Europe | Mari&Marie travel into TV Free Europe with a fresh gameshow /produced by Studio Budapest | ||
 | 13:20 | EN, HU | HANGMAN - Forbidden A | Daily game show of fortune, freedom and fear - in several parts during the day, feat.Mari&Marie | |
| 13:30 | DE | Another movie: East-Side-Story | A film about the film about the end of GDR, made by Elf99, 1990 by GDR TV | ||
| 14:30 | MIX | Youth Afternoon: Berlin, Berlin | selected youth subculture in 1989 from different countries/ footage from 1989 | ||
| 16:00 | PL | Another movie: Rabbit á la Berlin | Królik po berlińsku / Mauerhase is a documentary that tells the story of the Berlin Wall from the point of view of wild rabbits living in the zone between East and West Berlin | ||
| 17:00 | MIX | Nation States Revisited: Interview with Ivan Novak (Laibach) | Interview by Studio Nova Gorica 30 years after the German re-unification | ||
| 19:00 | EN | TV Free Europe goes live - OPENING | Opening of the TV Free Europe channel on 1 June 2020 | ||
| 19:15 | HU | News & Sport | NEWS from Studio Szombathely | ||
 | 19:56 | DE | Revolutionary minutes - Berlin wall | Medley around the Berlin wall with original footage | |
 | 20:30 | MIX, EN subs | Evening Movie: Every Wall is a Door | Poetic Docfiction about the Bulgarian System Change and the chaos of new capitalism | |
 | 21:30 | EN | Hangman: The Big Final | Who will be the winner today for the TV Holiday Price? | |
| 21:55 | EN, HU | TV Party: Eastern Bloc Underground | Radio Zonic's selection of eastern bloc subculture / by Studio Leipzig |