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Wide shot of tower block and car pulling up

LOCATION STRAP: SZOLNOK, HUNGARY

10:00:12

Suzi walking by bus stop with Solznok Dog Party members

Suzi:  Even in this bus stop, the benches look like s**t. But some paint would fix it, right? This looks like c**p.

Suzi: I pushed in a screw at least. That’s a start!

Suzi takes a photo

NAME CAPTION: ZSUZSANNA DOME [SUZI DADA], CO-FOUNDER, THE TWO-TAILED DOG PARTY

10:00:34

Suzi IV: I think it's always great when you can make a change in politics, make it a bit funnier or more colourful.

10:00:43

Looking at the painted cracks by the bus stop

Suzi: So pretty

Activist 1: It ended up looking like a bull due to its size.

Suzi: Not a bull, but a strong dog!

It truly has that shape!

You’re so silly. It’s f******g great!

10:00:57

WS Suzi and activists look at painted cracks

Suzi IV: In Szolnok, there is a new branch of the Dog Party doing pavement crack colouring and they are having a big impact. For example, one of their biggest pavement crack paintings was fixed by the city authorities within a few weeks.

10:01:15

Suzi takes photos of the painting from the bus stop

Suzi: Its crazy good. I hope they’re not going to fix this, it looks great!

Activist 1: they won’t fix it. There’s no danger of that.

Suzi: Yeah, because [the government party] Fisesz doesn’t have an office near here.

10:01:29

Gyorgy drinking

Suzi: OK, where to next?

10:01:31

Suzi and the activists walking

Suzi IV: We call our activists 'Passivists' and they are those active, creative citizens who will spot solvable problems in their surroundings, will come up with solutions.

10:01:45

Suzi, Gergo and co put up fake windows around concrete wall door. Solznock

Activist 1: Let’s glue the back

Activist 2: And did you check which side is up?

Suzi?: It doesn’t matter which ways is up.

Activist 2: Or we will glue it upside down!

10:02:01

Pasting paper for park wall stunt

Suzi IV: There’s a big concrete wall between this park and the apartments on the other side. There should be an exit but there's just metal door leading straight to the wall, with no hole behind it.

10:02:17

Pasting paper for park wall stunt

Gyorgy: All right, we shouldn’t be more conspicuous than we need to be!

Suzi: The mosquitos are biting my bum!

10:02:23

Wide of door posters being put up

Suzi IV: So we made a doormat and some windows to accompany this ‘door to nowhere’.

10:02:32

Mat being put down

Activist 1: Shall I put it here like this? Is this good like this?

10:02:38

Suzi IV: We are trying to get the authorities to take responsibility.

10:02:42

SUZI: Its great! And you can smear it will this goop.

Don’t do it would your hands. That might look off.

10:02:49

WS Group look at the door

All: To the right! To the right!

Man takes pictures

10:02:55

Text: ‘THE DOOR TO NOWHERE’

10:02:59

Park Manager confronts Dog Party, demanding they take down stunt. (nb: We can’t show his face)

NAME CAPTION: GERGELY KOVACS, CO-FOUNDER, THE TWO-TAILED DOG PARTY

Park Manager: Take it off! Take it off, please!

Gergő: We don’t want to, it’s much better. There is a window for the door and stuff, right?!

Park Warden: You will take it off anyway!

10:03:11

Suzi IV: Today those who are responsible are starting to act, instead of calling the police on us.

10:03:18

Group gathered in park talking to park manager

Park Manager: That that off… please!

Suzi: We won’t take it off! You’ll have to give us an official request!

FILM TITLE – THE TWO-TAILED DOG PARTY // A FILM BY KATA KARATH

10:03:32

Wide of river and Budapest buildings

CAPTION: BUDAPEST, HUNGARY

10:03:38

Suzi walks down street looking at phone

TEXT: Following the success of The Dog Party Suzi was invited to become a deputy mayor of Budapest’s 9^th district.

10:03:45

Suzi walks into municipal BUILDING

TEXT: MAYOR’S OFFICE (DISTRICT 9), BUDAPEST

Suzi IV: I have a lot of responsibilities.

Council meeting

Man in meeting: So this [drug prevention policy] comes together as a prevention system.

10:34:53

Suzi in meeting, listening

Suzi IV: I'm primarily responsible for culture and social issues.

Suzi walking into her office

10:04:03

Suzi’s office

Text: SUZI DOME, DEPUTY MAYOR

Suzi working in office

Magazine cover with statue on it.

Statue on display in the park

Suzi IV: I think independent artists need the chance to create freely, without being told what to create. So that’s why I organised a public art contest. One of the pieces was known as the “Black Lives Matter Statue”

10:04:30

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_0akcLkrRg

Our Homeland promotional video

TEXT: OUR HOMELAN D PARTY

ARCHIVE STRAP: OUR HOMELAND FOOTAGE

Our Homeland making and erecting the barricade around the BLM statue

(archive is creative commons)

Name caption: Janos Lantos, Our Homeland Party

Our Homeland Spokesperson:

It is Gypsy criminals that are the problem in this country, and racism against white Hungarians is everywhere. We cannot allow this BLM statue to stand without saying or doing anything. There will be no BLM in Hungary. There will be no Gypsy Lives Matter. We cannot allow this to happen. We will stamp it out in its infancy.

10:04:48

Shot of boarded up statue continues – Our Homeland footage

László Toroczkai (Our Homeland): I’m very confident that the disgraceful things happening in the USA, where there is a subversive, civil war-like atmosphere, won’t happen in Hungary.

The Hungarian national resistance is fighting it and I hope that this monstrous work will disappear from behind these panels soon.

10:05:17

Statue footage continues, destroy statue

Suzi IV: In the end, the cordon was removed and a bunch of “very brave” white supremacist far-rightists kicked it into pieces.

Far right video – (fair use/fair dealing)

Video of the far right smashing it

10:05:29

Suzi in office

NAME CAPTION: ROLAND TERDIK, TWO-TAILED DOG PARTY

Suzi (reading from phone): “The BLM monument kneeling in front of the anarchist terrorist movement, so adored by Suzi Dome” (laughs)

Suzi: Ah, the photo looks “good” as well.

Roland: Yes, this is from the office of [the governing party] Fidesz.

10:05:53

Suzi IV: Almost everything I’ve done so far has triggered attacks.

10:05:58

Suzi: “The terrible idea that popped out of the head of Ms Suzi Dome from the Dog Party.” I thought it was good! (laughs)

10:06:07

Suzi IV: If the media and the far right call me a traitor for trying to make this country a better place, well that’s fine. I can't do anything about that. I think the traitors are those not helping the country but instead creating hate.

10:06:27

Suzi talks about about Roma /rubbish dump, working at computer

Suzi IV: I’m doing some more work on the case of the garbage dump of Alsozsolca town.

We learnt that the local municipality has been dumping rubbish at an empty plot. Our first stunt was actually a virtual one because we made a photo-shopped image of a billboard saying “An illegal municipal landfill is being built here”. Many journalists believed this.

10:07:04

Still image of fake garbage dump sign

10:07:05

Suzi IV: However, the Municipality has also retaliated. Because the garbage is on private land and its not the council’s responsibility. This is their excuse for not doing anything.

Text: The Alsozsolca municipality is yet to remove the rubbish heap. Now the Two Tailed Dog Party is stepping up the campaign.

10:07:20

CAPTION: REC

Archive - TTDP footage recorded at rubbish dump

Off camera: Welcome Ladies and Gentlemen. It’s rolling.

Suzi: Hi everyone, here we’re in Alsózsolca, at the feet of the famous rubbish heap of Alsózsolca. Not far from here is the Sajó river and over there is the Roma settlement. This field is a protected nature reserve.

So we’ve come here to talk to the locals, but they’re nervous about speaking. They fear for their jobs and their healthcare because they’re scared of the local politicians.

Text: The Roma community has told Suzi the municipality is dumping its rubbish outside their homes.

10:08:15

Suzi IV: I was specially approached by these Roma locals as I worked a lot on that town when I used to be a teacher. So I already have a relationship with them.

10:08:28

Dog Party archive continues – talking to locals about rubbish dumping by council

Suzi: Have you heard that the council has been dumping rubbish here?

Roma man: Oh yes, it’s definitely happened. The municipality brought stuff like wood waste and I don’t know what else.

Suzi: How did they do that, with vans?

Roma man: Yes, they used vans, when they’re cleaning and I don’t know...

10:08:46

Dog Party colleague: Have you ever tried, I don’t know, to record the people dumping it here or ask them why they’re doing it and make them take it away?

Roma man: No, it would be pointless. They would attack me and beat me up.

10:09:02

Dog party archive, wide shot of field with rubbish

Young Roman man: There was a cool football field but it was ruined because of all the rubbish.

(Men’s faces blurred)

We used to play there with our mates. It was better for the kids too.

10:09:16

Suzi watches the videos on her laptop I office

Suzi IV: [Roma] issues are not popular. They might not vote for you afterwards, they do this, they do that, so political parties and powers don’t invest their energies in them. Let's face it, the council is thinking “very well”, if we create an illegal rubbish heap between the Roma settlements and the river, everyone will think it was the “Gypsies” who created it.

10:09:48

Suzi in offices watches Dog Party footage on laptop, moves to full screen

Suzi: I’d like to show you something. Is this van owned by the local council?

Older Roma man: This one? Yes it could be a council van. 

Suzi: Is this a council worker’s van? Property of Alsózsolca?

Young Roma man: Yeah.

Suzi: Ok, so we’ve got a photograph of the council bringing the rubbish here. Where could we find these vans?

10:10:11

Dog party footage, Suzi filming as they look around management office exterior

Colleague reads lettering on wall: “Town Management Office of Alsózsolca”

Suzi: Yes!

Suzi: Well, this is the council property and we’ve found the van which was photographed on the dump site. Oh yeah!

10:10:36

Dog Party footage – exterior of town management office

Suzi working on laptop in Dog Party office

Suzi: We expect the council to have a change of heart as a result of the publicity from this video.

10:10:50

Suzi at office uploading gypgy village garbage issue video

Suzi: I’m so excited!  Will this result in a lawsuit…?

Suzi: This is war, Alsózsolca!

10:11:05

Budapest streets, graffiti, peeling posters

Suzi IV: We founded the Two-Tailed Dog Party because there were no political parties in Hungary we could vote for with good conscience.

10:11:22

Strap: Archive

Orban rally archive: AFP

TV_20180315_POL_HUN_DemonstrationOrban_

VID1155991_EN_en.mp4

Text: Since the election of Viktor Orban in 2010, he has moved the country to the right and his vision of an “illiberal democracy.”

Source:

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Viktor-Orban

Archive as above: Orban speaking at the rally

Orban: We must keep our country Hungarian or our lives will lose their meaning.

10:11:40

TEXT: In 2015, as more than a million refugees sought safety in Europe, his government launched an anti-immigration campaign.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-34131911

10:11:48

ARCHIVE STRAP:

GOVERNMENT BILLBOARD CAMPAIGN

Government poster with translation: “Did you know the Paris attacks were done by migrants.”

Reuters: 2016-09 22T172137Z_2_LVA00250NEMH3_RTRWNEC_0_4204-EUROPE-MIGRANTS-HUNGARY-LEAFLETS-CLIP2.mp4

10:11:52

Govt poster with translation:

“If you come to Hungary, you must respect our culture!”

Reuters: 2020-05-13T024313Z_5_LVA5IUCNZD2HZJ3T2TGVXNQZPLV9_

RTRWNEC_0_D100-3145WD-EUROPE-MIGRANTSHUNGARYPOSTERS-CLIP2.mp4

Govt poster with translation:

“Soros wants to bring millions from Africa and the Middle East”

Reuters: 2020-07-09T191923Z_2_LVA0028HX9E13_RTRWNEC_0_2117-HUNGARY-SOROS-LAW-CLIP2.mp4

Suzi IV: The government was pushing this hate campaign quite hard.

10:12:00

Govt poster of Orban with translation:

“For us Hungary is first!”

“The UN wants us to pay for the resettlement and employment of migrants. Hungary decide, not the UN!”.

Suzi: but the other parties remained silent

10:12:05

Street corner

Suzi I IV: At this point, we got really involved in daily politics with our billboard campaign.

10:12:11

TTDP Poster – “Welcome to Hungary: closed on Sundays”

Text: TWO-TAILED DOG PARTY BILLBOARD CAMPAIGN

Sound up - Music

10:12:17

POSTER: “Come to Hungary, we’ve got jobs in London!”

10:12:22

POSTER: “Sorry about our Prime Minister!”

Suzi: A lot of people who were not Dog Party voters participated in this because we were the only party taking action.

10:12:35

Dog party march. Suzie on the truck

TEXT: IN 2017-2018 the Dog Party organised protests against the government’s various intolerant propaganda campaigns.

10:12:46

Exterior, Suzi’s office

10:12:48

Suzi and Roland looking at phone in office

“Gate to nowhere put on concrete wall.’

Suzi: It was actually very lucky that the park manager got angry.

10:13:04

Roland: If I remember correctly there was an article from (Hungarian Magazine) 444 as well.

Suzi: Unlike the garbage heap at Alsózsolca…

10:13:15

Suzi and Roland looking at phone

Suzi: They covered the previous stunt but not this one, even though it’s also an important issue.

Suzi: Well yeah, at least it was shared…

Suzi: One person commented ’Make electricity from the garbage’. What a great idea from the public!

10:13:32

CU typewriter in office

Phone rings:

Phone: You have called the Mayor’s Office in Alsozsolca…

Suzi: You must press something, so then let’s try the secretary.

10:13:43

Suzi on phone in office

Suzi: Good morning! I’m Zsuzsanna Dome, from the Hungarian Two-Tailed Dog Party. I’m calling about this garbage heap situation.

I visited the village a few weeks ago and we tried to find out what the locals know about it. // And I received information that the council dumped garbage there and told the locals to do the same, promising the council will clean it up.

10:14:17

Roland gestures, Suzi listens

NB: We don’t have permission to use mayor’s his end of the phone call.

TEXT:

The municipality told Al Jazeera that the Dog Party’s accusations are false.

They say in their experience the garbage is dumped by the residents themselves.

This creates environmental and health issues which the municipality is trying to resolve, within the law.

10:14:32

Suzi talks on phone

Suzi on phone: All right, then I would be grateful if you could keep me updated, we are following this issue and are trying to help. Thank you, have a nice day.

(Hangs up)

Suzi: Well, I think they’ll fine the owner. (laughs)

Exterior, Suzi’s office

10:14:52

TEXT: As Suzi awaits the outcome of her garbage campaign she has to organize a council vote for a new theatre director.

10:14:59

Suzi office GVs

Suzi IV: We inherited The Basement Theatre from the previous administration and it is run by my district. There are very few of these independent ones left in the country.  Theatre has also become a field of politics.

10:15:23

Suzi meets with colleague

Suzi IV:

SOT: Usually theatre tenders only receive two to four applications, because they’re not independent. And those who get chosen by the government committee only make proper Catholic plays and nothing controversial. Ours had 15 applicants. Practically the whole theatre world is applying even though it’s a tiny theatre.

10:15:54

Suzi IV: Now I just have to trust my fellow council members to make a wise decision and not a political one. Because that’s very important, as they can still mess it up. But we won’t.

10:16:09

The Council meeting, people take their seats

10:16:22

Suzi IV: As I see it, while my colleagues on the council do not have so many of their own ideas, I do. However, when I present my ideas they ignore them or try to tear them apart.

10:16:43

Deputy Mayor Roland Reiner starts the council meeting.

NAME CAPTION: ROLAND REINER, 9^TH DISTRICT DEPUTY MAYOR

Reiner: The first item on the agenda is the appointment of the director of the Basement Theatre. This is tabled by Deputy Mayor Zsuzsanna Dome. I’ll give the floor to the Deputy Mayor.

10:16:55

Suzi speaking to council

Gyorgy Komaromi sits down

Suzi: I know politicians think they are experts in everything, but I ask that our cultural decisions are not controlled by our political agendas. Gyorgy Komaromi’s application offers exactly the programme of plays and activities that we asked for in the tender.

10:17:25

NAME CAPTION: GYORGY KOMAROMI, THEATRE DIRECTOR CANDIDATE

Komaromi: Not only do we want a contemporary theatre, but a theatre with contemporary, fresh plays. This is a unique programme as there are no theatres like this Budapest.

10:17:43

NAME CAPTION: PAL SZTARENKI, THEATRE DIRECTOR CANDIDATE

Sztarenki: We have to understand the theatre cannot be more than what it is now. Our desires are limited by reality. So, we can dream big, but it would be a swindle, and I wouldn't want to do that. I’m not capable of doing that.

10:18:05

Council to vote about candidates, Suzi is upset.

Deputy Mayor Roland: So please be prepared to make a decision, and vote about the application of Pal Sztarenki.

(‘VOTING’ screen)

Thank you. That is ten ‘yes, two ‘no’ and three absent.

10:18:25

Deputy Mayor Roland: And now we’ll vote on the application of Gyorgy Komaromi.

(‘VOTING’ screen)

Thank you. Seven vote ‘yes’, six vote ‘no’, and three absent.

10:18:42

Suzi looks disappointed about the outcome of the theatre director vote.

Deputy Mayor Roland: Pál Sztarenki is the new director.

10:18:50

Sztarenki, the new director, stands up looking proud.

Text: Suzi’s preferred candidate, Gyorgy Komaromi, loses the vote.

10:19:00

Suzi walks out of meeting, down stairs

Suzi IV: These council members really don't care about the interests of the district. All they do is frustrate the plans of me and the mayor, even when we’re doing the right thing

…but whatever...whatever.

10:19:31

Suzi enters office

Assistant Peter: Did you win?

Suzi: Forget about it.

Suzi: I just don’t know how I’m supposed to manage these tenders.

Suzi: I don’t know. Let’s have a beer.

Suzi: Yes, once again.

Off camera: How do you feel?

Suzi: ‘Great’!

10:20:10

Suzi speaks to camera.

Suzi: Now I’m just going to encourage people not to give up. That’s all I can do now. Look, I don’t know, you can also do culture in guerrilla as well.

10:20:26

Various paints and art equipment at Dog Party HQ

TEXT: THE TWO-TAILED DOG PARTY HQ

Sign being put in car by Suzi and other

10:21:01

Countryside GVs / travelling shots from car

Suzi’s face in sunset

Suzi IV: We've been called to a joke party several times, people describe what we do as ridiculous. What does it matter if we paint a cracked sidewalk in four colours? What does any of that matter?

10:21:26

Alsózsolca sign from the car window

Suzi IV: I think a political party must understand that the road towards greatness starts with a tiny step.

10:21:35

Suzi in car

Gvs of street, Roma families

TEXT: ALSOZSOLCA, HUNGARY

10:21:47

Suzi walking with children

Suzi: Let’s check out the garbage heap. It would be great if it wasn’t there any more. I’m guessing you are not attached to it.

I think this didn’t get smaller, it got bigger!

Roma girl out of shot: Yes, it got bigger.

Dog party activist: Or taller...it’s more dense, and spreads out more.

10:22:11

Suzi and co take sign to the garbage heap

Suzi IV: Now we have a new sign saying that the illegal garbage heap will be cleaned up by us via crowd funding.

Converting people to 'active-creative citizens' is the goal of the Dog Party.

Our mission is to show people what making a difference looks and feels like.

This is really the most important thing for us.

10:22:53

Putting up sign with crowd around, hammering

Man: I’ll hammer it down here a bit to see if it fits.

Suzi: This side fits here.

10:23:10

Suzi walking across field

Suzi: There is a lot of work to do, we are trying to get this garbage heap taken away. We have given up on getting it taken away by the municipality.

Old friend: You're really something! You are real heroes!

10:23:29

Suzi makes children read the sign

Suzi: OK, you can definitely read this for us! I’m asking those in 6^th grade to ready this sign out loudly.

Girl: “The clean-up...of the illegal ... garbage heap ... from the residential area of Alsozsolca.”

Suzi: You embarrassed the sixth graders! You won’t get away either, there is more above it!

Girls together: “Thank you to everyone who wants to help.”

Suzi: That's right! The fifth and sixth graders managed to get it right. And what does “those who want to help” mean? What do you think we are asking people to do?

Children: To clean up the garbage!

Suzi: Oh, that’s right! And what do we need that $2,000 USD for?

Girl: To bring the containers here!

Suzi: That’s right! To bring the containers here and get it taken away! Well, I think we all understand now!

(Little boy looks at sign, Suzi takes photos)

10:24:44

TEXT: It took four months to crowdfund the $2,000 USD needed to remove the rubbish

It was finally removed in January 2022