Local Sensorium, Local Cinema: György Pálfi's Sensuous Body Politics

György Páll 's Hukkle (2002) and Taxidermia (2006) establish markedly unique cinematic styles and richly sensorial life-worlds, which function in both l lms as counter-discourses opposing ofl cial history, hegemonic ideologies, and conventional patterns of (cinematic) understanding. In the present study I analyse the ways Páll 's l lms communicate through non-symbolic meaning, bodily discourses, and a heavy reliance on the multisensory evocation of the local sensorium (Marks) and the local habitus (Bourdieu) so as to create signil cance on the margins of established, hegemonic systems of meaning, cinema, ideology and identity.