Peter Forgacs

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Peter Forgacs
Born 1950
Nationality Hungarian
Field art, film
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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From 1976 on Peter Forgacs is part of the Hungarian avant-garde art scene, as a photographer, filmmaker, and media artist. In the 1970s and '80s he collaborated with the contemporary music ensemble Group 180, and worked in the Balazs Bela Film Studio. 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 (1990). Since Forgacs has received several international festival awards in Budapest, Lisbon, Marseilles, San Francisco, New York and Berlin. Forgacs is the 2007 Erasmus Prize award winner (see www.erasmusprijs.org).

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