The first snippet of the Balaton Method has arrived with Punnany Massif in the mess hall of a classic Balaton resort. The film will be released in March.

Director Bálint Szimler and cinematographer Marcell Rév (pictured above) started filming the music movie Balaton Method in 2014. The duo behind the Kodály Method music shorts wanted to adapt the Kodály Method to Lake Balaton, to take the Budapest-based short films from the capital to the Lake.

In the Kodály Method films, Hungarian underground bands played at diverse locations (e.g. on a rooftop or among tower blocks) with out-of-ordinary contributors. In Balaton Method, these musical sketches together form a full-length film, featuring the likes of Subscribe, Quimby, or Harcsa Veronika és a Bin-Jip.

The creators have stuck with the Kodály Method recipe: music is played on a ferry in the sunset, in the mess hall of a resort, on the balcony of Hotel Ezüspart, at the open-air cinema of Fövenyes, or immersed into the Lake, together with a wind section, a women's choir or percussionists drumming on a Polski Fiat. The musical scenes are conjoined by road movie style journeys, piecing Balaton Method together into the Balaton feel we all love.