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Péter Forgács and
The Labyrinth
Project
Péter Forgács
[H] film maker, media artist * 09/09/1950 [H] Péter Forgács studied at the Academy
of Fine Arts in Budapest, and was a researcher at the Hungarian
Sociological Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. In
the early seventies, his work was influenced by the Hungarian fluxus
and experimental film movement, and he realized his first video
film, »I see that I look«, in 1978. His works explores
the historical and the cultural via the private. In a series of
works entitled »Private Hungary«, Forgács recontextualizes
archival home movies and film journals from the past, transforming
private documents of everyday lives into haunting narratives of
twentieth-century Hungary.
Grants and Awards | Works | Works in Collections | Recommended Links Grants
and Awards ::
Scholar/ Artist-in-Residence, Getty Research Institute [USA], 2000 - 2001. First Prize of the Hungarian Film Festival, Budapest [H], 2002; Grand Prix, 11th International Documentary Film Festival of Portugal [P], 2000; Grand Prix, International Film Competition, London [UK], 2000; Special Award of the Jury and Audience Award, L'immagine leggera, Palermo [I], 2000; Golden Gate Award [documentary section], San Francisco International Film Festival [USA], 2000; »Jewish Experience Prize« [Best Documentary Film], Jerusalem International Film Festival [IL], 1999; »Silver Dragon« prize and »Fipresci« Prize, Krakow International Documentary and Short Film Festival, Krakow [PL], 1999; First Prize [category documentary], 30th Hungarian Film Week [H], 1998; Balázs Béla Film Award of the Hungarian Republic [H], 1998; Best Hungarian Documentary-Fiction, and Best Film Music Prize, Hungarian Film Critics Award [H], 1998; Fipresci Prize, Leipzig International Film Festival [D], 1997; Grand Prix and CNC »Image de la culture« special award, Marseille International Documentary Film [F], 1997; Grand Prix [section short and experimental film], 28th Hungarian Film Week, Budapest [H], 1997; Prize of the »DokumentART 95« festival, Neubrandenburg [D], 1995; Prize of the 5e semaine internationale de video, Geneva [CH], 1993; Prize of Video Les Beaux Jours, Strasbourg [F], 1993; First Prize [category video], Viper Film and Video Festival, Lucerne [CH], 1993; Grand Prix of the Sound Base Arts Video Festival, Wroclaw [PL], 1993; »Best Hungarian Documentary Film«, Hungarian Film Critics Award [H], 1992; Grand Prix of the 2nd European Biennial of Documentary Film, Marseille [F], 1991; Grand Prix of the World Wide Video Festival, The Hague [NL], 1990.
° Selected Films and Videos ::
»The Bishop’s Garden«, 2002
[56:30 min; dir. and prod. by P. Forgács] Works
in Public Collections :: »Self-portrait«, 1975 [acrylic
on canvas (210 x 140 cm)] »Dusi and Jenö«, 1989 [video, 44
min.] »Márai: Herbal«, 1991 [video];
»Wittgenstein Tractatus«, 1992 [video] »The Bartos Family«, »Dusi and Jenö«,
»Either-Or«, »The Diary of Mr. N«, »Meanwhile
Somewhere«, »The Maelstrom«, »Free Fall« »The Bartos Family«, Dusi and Jenö«,
»Either-Or«, »The Diary of Mr. N«, »Bourgeois
Dictionary«, »The Bartos Family«, »Dusi and Jenö«,
»Either-Or«, »The Diary of Mr. N«, »Bourgeois
Dictionary«, »Notes of a Lady«, »The Land
of Nothing«, »Free Fall«, »Tractatus« »The Bartos Family«, »Diary of Mr.
N.« »Tractatus«, »Bourgeois Dictionary«,
»Notebook of a Lady« »Free Fall«, »The Bartos
Family«, »Dusi and Jenö«, »Either-Or«,
»The Diary of Mr. N«, »TOTEM« [video installation] »Free Fall« »The Bartos Family«, »Free Fall« »The Maelstrom«, »Wittgenstein Tractatus«,
»Free Fall«, »Totem« »The Danube Exodus« »The Bartos Family«, »Dusi and Jenö«,
»Either –Or«, »The Diary of Mr. N.«,
»Bourgeoisie Dictionaries«, »The Notes of a Lady«,
»Meanwhile Somewhere«, »The Land Of Nothing«,
»Free Fall«, »Class Lot«, »The Maelstrom«,
»The Danube Exodus«, »Kádár’s
Kiss« »The Bartos Family«, »Dusi and Jenö«,
»Either –Or«, »The Diary of Mr. N.«,
»Bourgeoisie Dictionaries«, »The Notes of a Lady«,
«Meanwhile Somewhere«, »The Land Of Nothing«,
»Free Fall«, »Class Lot«, »The Maelstrom«,
»The Danube Exodus«, »Kádár’s
Kiss«, »Angelos' Film »Meanwhile Somewhere«, »Wittgenstein
Tractatus«, »Free Fall«, »The Maelstrom«,
»The Danube Exodus«, »Angelos' Film«, »The
Land of Nothing«, »The Bartos Family«, »The
Land Of Nothing« »Meanwhile Somewhere«, »Wittgenstein
Tractatus«, »Free Fall«, »The Maelstrom«,
»The Danube Exodus«, »Angelos' Film«, »The
Land of Nothing«, »The Bartos Family«, »The
Land Of Nothing« -> Biography, Filmography: -> Interview [with Sven Speaker] : -> Short description »Father and His Three
Sons - The Bartos Family« (Private Hungary 1), 1988 [60 min]:
-> Short description »Dusi and Jen« (Private
Hungary 2), 1989 [45 min]: -> Short description »Either-Or« (Private
Hungary 3), 1989 [43 min]: -> Short description »The Diary of Mr. N: 1938-1967«
(Private Hungary 4), 1990 [51 min]: -> Short description »Bourgeois Dictionaries«
(Private Hungary 7), 1992 [49 min]: -> Short description »Wittgenstein Tractatus
(seven short video essays, 1992 [32 min]: -> Short description "Totem", [1993, 0:26 h]:
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