Peter Forgacs
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| Peter Forgacs | |
| Born | 1950 |
| Nationality | Hungarian |
| Field | art, media film |
| Famous works | Private Hungary Series, El Perro Negro, Miss Universe 1929, Wittgenstein Tractatus, The Maelstrom, The Danube Exodus |
Peter Forgacs (1950) is a media artist and independent filmmaker based in Budapest, Hungary. He is best known for his "Private Hungary" series of award winning films based on home movies from the 1930s and 1960s, which document ordinary lives that were soon to be ruptured by an extraordinary historical trauma that occurs off screen.
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[edit] Biography
In 1983, Forgacs established the Private Photo & Film Archives Foundation (PPFA) in Budapest, a unique collection of amateur film footage and has made this material the raw data for his unique re-orchestrations of history.
In 2002 The Getty Research Institute held an exhibit of his installation The Danube Exodus: Rippling Currents of the River . His international debut came with the Bartos Family (1988), which was awarded the Grand Prix at the World Wide Video Festival in The Hague.
Since then he has received several international festival awards- in Budapest, Lisbon, Marseilles, San Francisco and Berlin, where he won the Prix Europe for Free Fall.
In the last decade, Forgács exhibited in Antwerp, Amsterdam, Tokyo, Prague, Bochum, Sao Paolo, New York, Rome, Graz , Fellbach, Warsaw , Krakow, Amsterdam, Newcastle, Ostrava, Mardid, Barcelona, Karlsruhe, Brugge, Los Angeles, Den Hague and Vienna. Various public collections, museums and universities keep Forgács' highly recognized works.
[edit] Filmography
2006 - Miss Universe 1929 - Lisl Goldarbeiter - a Queen in Wien (video - 70min)
2005 - El Perro Negro - Stories from the Spanish Civil War (video - 84min and 52min)
2004 - Mutual Analysis (video - 12min)
2003 - Der Kaiser auf dem Spaziergang - light & image project (DVD - 15'30min)
2002 - The Bishop’s Garden - Private Hungary 14 (video - 56'30min)
2001 - A Bibó Reader - Private Hungary 13 (35mm film and video - 69min)
1999 - Angelos’ Film (video - 60min)
1998 - The Danube Exodus (video - 60min)
1997 - The Maelstrom - A Family Chronic (video - 60’05min)
1997 - Kádár’s Kiss - Private Hungary 12 (video - 52min)
1997 - Class Lot - Private Hungary 11 (video - 52min)
1996 - Free Fall - Private Hungary 10 (video - 75min)
1996 - Pauer Pseudo (video - 60min)
1996 - The Land of Nothing - Private Hungary 9 (video - 62min)
1994 - Meanwhile Somewhere 1940-43... (video - 52min)
1994 - The Notes of a Lady - Private Hungary 8 (video - 48min)
1994 - Hungarian Totem (video - 26min)
1993 - Conversations on Psychoanalysis - documentary series 5/5
1 Freud & Vienna (video - 53min)
2 Sándor Ferenczi & the Budapest School of Psychoanalysis (video - 53 min)
3 The Psychoanalytic View of Man (video - 55min)
4 Psychoanalysis & Society (video - 53min)
5 Psychoanalysis as Therapy (video - 58min)
1993 - Simply Happy - with Albert Wulffers (35mm film and video - 52min)
1993 - Culture Shavings (video - 43min)
1992 - Bourgeoisie Dictionary - Private Hungary 7 (video - 49min)
1992 - Wittgenstein Tractatus - INTERLUDE series (video - 35min)
1991 - Arizona diary - with poet György Petri (video - 53min)
1991 - Photographed by László Dudás - Private Hungary 6 (video - 45min)
1991 - D-FILM - Private Hungary 5 (video - 45min)
1991 - Márai Herbal - INTERLUDE series (video - 30min)
1990 - The Diary of Mr. N. - Private Hungary 4 (video - 51min)
1989 - Either - Or - Private Hungary 3 (video - 43min)
1989 - Dusi & Jenõ - Private Hungary 2 (video - 45min)
1988 - The Bartos Family - Private Hungary 1 (video - 60min)
1987 - Episodes from the Life of Professor M.F. (video - 110min)
1986 - The Portrait of Leopold Szondi (video - 60min)
1985 - Spinoza Rückwertz (35mm film - 5min)
1985 - Iron Age (video - 50min)
1985 - Golden Age video (video - 20min)
1978 - I See That I Look (video - 25min)
[edit] Installations and Performances
Black Hole • Performance, with Tamás Tóth bassguitar
Chlorophyll • performance with L. Lugo Lugosi
Der Kaiser auf dem Spaziergang • video installation
Dixi & Pixi • video performance with Dixi, Group 180, L. Lugo Lugosi
Dream Inventory • installation
Free Fall • Oratorio
Educational Cinema • installation
Hungarian Totem • installation
Hungarian Video Kitchen Art • video installation
INAUGURATION • video performance
New Paintings by HUNGARIAN CONTEMPORARY ART
New York - BUDAPEST • paintings-photos with L. Lugó Lugosi
Paintings & photographs • One man show
Pig paintings • paintings
Pre Morgue • video installation
Private Exits • performance with Szemzõ Tibor
Rembrandt Morphs • installation
Saloon, and Then! • installation
SIGHT • photo installation
Snapshot from the Island • performance with Tibor Szemzõ
Stanley & Livingston • performance
The Case of My Room • video installation
The Danube Exodus • installation
The Hung Aryan • Video Installation
The Visit • installation
Thee á' El Greco • video Installation
Two Nests and Other Things • video installation
Work Desk • video performance and installation with Tibor Szemzõ
Xerox Graphics • group exhibition
[edit] Awards
2007 Peter Forgacs media artist • Erasmus Prize Praemium Erasmianum Foundation, Amsterdam
2006 El perro negro • Documentary Film Grand Prize 37th Hungarian Film Festival, Budapest
2005 El perro negro • The Maysles Brothers Documentary Film Grand Prize Denver International Film Festival, USA
2005 El perro negro • Feature Length Documentary Grand PrizeTribeca International Film Festival, New York
2001 A Bibó Reader • Official selection Quinzaine des Réalisateurs Cannes Film Festival, France
2001 A Bibó Reader • Best Director Prize of Short & Experimental Film 33rd Hungarian Film Festival, Budapest
2001 Angelos' Film • Best Music and Sound Track Special prize One WorldHuman Rights Film Festival, Prague
2000 Angelos' Film • Documentário Longa Grand Prize XI Encotros Internacionalis De Cinema Documental, Portugal
1999 The Maelstrom • Grand Prize Out of That Darkness International Film Competition, London
1999 Angelos' Film • Documentary Golden Gate Award, the Golden Spire San Francisco International Film Festival, USA
1999 The Maelstrom • The MAYOR'S Jewish Experience Prize for best documentary filmJerusalem International Film Festival, Israel
1999 The Danube Exodus • Silver Dragon prix and FIPRESCI prize Krakow Int. Doc. & Short Film Festival, Poland
1999 The Danube Exodus • Documentary Film Grand Prize 30th Hungarian Film Festival, Budapest
1998 Peter Forgacs media artist • The Balázs Béla Film Award Hungarian Republic Award, Budapest
1999 Free Fall • The Best Documentary-Fictionand the Best Film Music Prize Hungarian Film Critics Prize, Budapest
1997 Free Fall • FIPRESCI Prize Leipzig International Film Festival, Germany
1997 Free Fall • PRIX EUROPA Grand Prize Non-Fiction Program of the year, Berlin
1997 Free Fall • Grand Prize & CNC “Image de la culture” special award Marseilles International Document Film Festival, France
1997 Free Fall • Short & Experimental Film Grand Prize, Budapest 28th Hungarian Film Festival, Budapest
1995 Meanwhile Somewhere • "Lattücht" Prize Dokument ART 95 Festival, Neubrandenburg, Germany
1994 Wittgenstein Tractatus • Grand Prize Montecattini, Terme, Italy
1993 Márai Herbal • 2nd Prize Berlin Sport and Young Film Festival, Germany
1993 Culture Shavings • St. Germaine de Geneva Prize 5th Semaine Internationale de Video, Switzerland
1993 Wittgenstein Tractatus • Video Les Beaux Jours Prize Film & Video Festival Strasbourg, France
1993 Wittgenstein Tractatus • Video Grand Prize VIPER Film & Video Festival, Lucerne, Switzerland
1993 Wittgenstein Tractatus • Sound Base Arts Video Festival Grand Prize, Wroclaw, Poland
1992 The Private Hungary series • Best Hungarian Documentary Film Prize Hungarian Film Critics, Budapest
1991 Dusi and Jenő • Grand PrizeII European Document Film Biennial, Marseilles, France
1990 The Bartos Family • Grand Prize World Wide Video Festival, The Hague, Holland
[edit] Works in Public Collections
Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest
Ludwig Museum, LUMU, Budapest
Samlung Oppenheim, Bonn
Video Les Beaux Jours Collection, Strasbourg
Pacific Film Archives, Berkeley CA USA
MOMA, Film and Video collection, New York
Nederland Filmmuseum, Amsterdam
Centre Pompidou & Musé d'Art Moderne, Paris
Zentrum für Medien Kunst, ZKM collection, Karlsruh
Haus der Dokumentarfilm collection, Stuttgart
Center National du Cinematographie, Paris
KIASMA Contemporary Art Museum, Helsinki
Akademie der Künste, Berlin
Open Society Archive, CEU, Budapest
C3 Media Art Center, Budapest
The Getty Museum, Special Collection, Los Angeles
USC Film School - Annenberg Center for Communications, Los Angeles
Stanford University Library, Green Library, USA
Moffitt Library UC Berkeley, CA USA
Harvard College Library, Cambridge MA USA
New York University, Bobst Library NYU N.Y. USA
Australian Center for the Moving Image (ACMI) CINEMEDIA, Melbourne
Three art documentary DVD, Ministry of Education, Hungary
Bobst Library New York University N.Y. USA
UIAH Helsinki University Art Department collection
Yad Vashem, The Visual Center, Jerusalem
Montreal Cinematheque, Permanent Collection
Museum of Fine Arts, 20th century Collection, Budapest
[edit] External links
- http://www.peterforgacs.com Official website of Peter Forgacs
