Lomax, the Songhunter - Budapest Ritmo Világzenei Filmnapok 2025 / BARTÓK TAVASZ 2025

Director: Rogier Kappers

Alan Lomax (1915–2002) devoted his life to recording the world’s folk tunes before they would permanently disappear with the rise of the modern music industry. In Lomax, the Songhunter, filmmaker Rogier Kappers follows the route that Lomax took across America and beyond its borders, to remote villages in Spain and Italy where farmers still remember the songhunter. Interviews and archival recordings bring the cotton fields, rock quarries and prisons to life, where Alan Lomax captured America’s quintessential music.

Dutch documentary with English and Hungarian subtitles

This film screening of the Bartók Spring is presented by Müpa Budapest as a joint event with Hangvető and Music Hungary.

Supported by the National Film Institute, Hungary