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FORGÁCS, Péter
FORGÁCS, Péter
Péter Forgács (Budapest, September 10. 1950) is a media artist and independent filmmaker based in Budapest, whose works have been exhibited worldwide. Since 1978 he has made more than thirty films. He is best known for his installations and the "Private Hungary" series of award-winning art-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. In 1983, Forgács 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.
The Board of the Praemium Erasmianum Foundation has decided to award the Erasmus Prize 2007 to the Hungarian filmmaker and media artist Péter Forgács. Through his documentary work the artist Péter Forgács has made an original contribution to the process of cultural memory and the transmission of culture, thereby furthering and deepening our understanding of the past. By using authentic amateur and home movies Péter Forgács creates in his films a direct view of historical events. He does not tell new stories, but offers new perspectives on known episodes. His films have no political or ideological agenda. Through intimate images from the private lives of ordinary citizens, Forgács confronts the present day world of the viewer with the recent past and in so doing transmits the memory of these episodes. INSTALLATIONS AND PERFORMANCES 2004 • „Educational Cinema” / „Oktatófilm” installation Az elhallgatott holocaust / Suppressed Holocaust, group exhibition / Art Palace / Műcsarnok / Budapest • „SIGHT” „Tekintet”, Photo installation / AURA /C3 group exhibition
Millenáris Pavilion/D. Budapest • “Der Kaiser auf dem Spaziergang” DVD installation , AEGINA, Greece part of the Light-Image Reality Project • “The Danube Exodus - The Rippling Currents of a River” exhibition Future Cinema / ZKM Karlsruhe, and in CCCB Barcelona
2003 • Free Fall Oratorio with Tibor Szemző, Goethe Institute, Munchen
2002 • “The visit” installation in “What?” exhibition, Brugge Cultural Capital of Europe • “The Danube Exodus - The Rippling Currents of a River” exhibition, The Getty Museum, Research Institute, Los Angeles, & The Labyrinth Project / USC
2000 • Free Fall Oratorio with Tibor Szemző at the 20th San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, USA Premiere • “The Visit” video installation - 56 Gallery, Budapest
1999 • "Hungarian Totem" 1949-1999 Central European Avant-garde Ludwig Museum, Vienna, & Contemporary Mus. Madrid • "Hungarian Totem" Zeitgenössische Kunst aus Ungarn, Fellbach Germany • "Hungarian Totem" and ‘Dream Inventory’ ‘MOST’ group Exhibition, Bochum Museum • "Hungarian Totem" FAUNA, group exhibition Zachenta Museum, Warsaw.
1998 • „The Hung Aryan” Video Installation OBSERVATORIUM, group exhibition, Ujezdowsky Gallery, Warsaw • "Hungarian Totem" Roma INTER ACTUS 5 Accademia Ungheria • ‘Dream Inventory’ MUHKA Gallery, Antwerp. Belgium
1997 „The Hung Aryan” / ‘A KASZT Ó!’ Video Installation, Budapest Gallery, Budapest • „Saloon, and Then!” “Szalon na!” installation, Liget Gallery, Budapest • ‘Dream Inventory’ Landes Museum, Graz, Austria „Beyond Art & Science” Austro-Hungarian Exhibition • "Hungarian Totem" in Krakow, Poland and Hungary, ”a triple dialogue” group exhibition
1996 • ‘Dream Inventory’ Ludwig Museum, Austro-Hungarian Exhibition Budapest • "Hungarian Totem” video installation Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo
1996 • "Hungarian Totem” Sao Paolo XXVIII. Biennial • "Hungarian Totem" Postmasters Gallery, New York,
1995 • ‘Dream Inventory’, ‘Wittgenstein Inventory’, ’Totem’ Kiscell, Municipal Gallery, Budapest
1993 • "Hungarian Totem" video installation., Nederland Film Museum, Amsterdam • "TOTEM" video installation , Kapolcs village, Hungary • “Two Nests and Other Things" Prague, Hungarian Culture Institute Gallery • "Hungarian Video Kitchen Art" installation, 10th World Wide Video Festival, The Hague,
1992 • “Two Nests and Other Things" Video Installation, French Cultural Institute Budapest • "The Case of My Room’, VIDEO installation Laing Art Gallery, “The Shifting Borders“ Newcastle
1991 • "Thee á'El Greco" Video Installation. Homage El Greco group Exhibition, Museum of Fine Arts Budapest • "Hungarian Video Kitchen Art" installation, Sub Voce Exhibition, Műcsarnok/Art Palace, Budapest
1990 • New Paintings by HUNGARIAN CONTEMPORARY ART Group Exhibition, Palais Universitet, Strasbourg
1989 • "Private Exits" performance, with Szemzõ Tibor. TÖNE & GEGEN TÖNE FESTIVAL. Vienna
1988 • Paintings & photographs. One man show in FOTOHOF GALERIE Salzburg
1987 • Xerox Graphics - ‘Partenope’ group exhibition, Accademia d'Ungheria, Rome,
1985/86 • Pig paintings Apollo Huis, Eindhoven, Holland
1985 • "Snapshot from the Island" performance /with Tibor Szemzõ Apollohuis Eindhoven, The Hague, Frankfurt am Main, Cologne, Vienna • "Work Desk" Video performance and installation. Ernst Museum, with Tibor Szemzõ
1984 • "Black Hole" Performance, ‘Plánum’ International Avant-garde Festival, Budapest, with Tamás Tóth
1983 • "Dixi & Pixi" video performance Kassák Culture Center, with Dixi, Group 180, László Lugo Lugosi
1982 • "Chlorophyll” performance with László Lugo Lugosi at YAC Bp.
1981 • "New York - BUDAPEST" paintings, Young Artists Club (YAC), Budapest Photos by László Lugo Lugosi
1980 • "INAUGURATION" video performance (YAC) BP: with László Lugo Lugosi, István Mártha, and Lajos Somoskõi
1979 • "Stanley & Livingston” performance. Young Artists Club (YAC) Budapest, with Gusztáv Hámos & László Lugosi Lugo
FILM & VIDEO-GRAPH 2004 El Perro Negro Spanish Stories 1929-1939 * 90 and 52 min
2003 “Mutual Analysis” video * 12 min
2003 “The HungAryan” three-screen-video *49 min
2003 „Der Kaiser auf dem Spaziergang” DVD NFM / LIGHT + Image, 15:30
2002 “The Bishop’s Garden” Private Hungary/14 video 56:30 min
2001 “A Bibó Reader “ Private Hungary/13 35 mm film + video *69 min
1999 “Angelos’ Film” video * 60 min.
1998 „The Danube Exodus” video * 60 min.
1997 “Kádár’s Kiss” Private Hungary/12 video * 52’ min.
1997 „The Maelstrom” A Family Chronic video 60’ min.
1997 „Class Lot” Private Hungary/11 video 52’ min.
1996 „Free Fall” BBS HTV Private Hungary/10 video 75’ min.
1996 „The Land Of Nothing” Private Hungary /9 video 62’min.
1994 Simply Happy / Domweg Gelukkig, with Albert Wolffers 46 and 72 min.
1994 “Meanwhile Somewhere” 1940-43...” BBS-HTV 52 min.
1994 „The Notes of a Lady” Private Hungary/ 8 video 48 min.
1994 “Hungarian Totem” 26 min
1993 Conversations on Psychoanalysis series
1. Freud & Vienna 53 min.
2 Sándor Ferenczi & the Budapest School of Psychoanalysis 53 min.
3. The Psychoanalytic View of Man 55 min.
4. Psychoanalysis & Society 53 min.
5. Psychoanalysis as Therapy 58 min.
1993 Culture Shavings video 43 min.
1992 Bourgeoisie Dictionaries Private Hungary /7 video 49 min.
1992 Wittgenstein Tractatus (Interlude series) video 35 min
1991 Arizona diary -( with poet György Petri) video 53 min.
1991 Márai Herbal (Interlude series) video 35 min
1990 The Diary of Mr. N. Private Hungary /4 video 51 min.
1989 Either --Or Private Hungary /3 video 43 min.
1989 Dusi & Jenõ (Private Hungary /2) video 45 min.
1988 The Bartos Family (Private Hungary 1) video 60 min.
1987 Episodes from the Life of Professor M.F. video 110 min.
1986 The Portrait of Leopold Szondi video 60 min.
1985 Spinoza Rückwertz / 35 mm. film 5 min.
1985 Golden Age video 20 min.
1985 Iron Age video 50 min.
1978 I See That I Look video 25 min AWARDS 2007 Erasmus Prize 2007
2002 “A Bibó Reader” , 33rd Hungarian Film Festival, Budapest
Best Director PRIZE of SHORT & EXPERIMENTAL FILM,
Selected by Quinzaine des Réalisateurs, Cannes 2002
2001 Angelos’ Film” ONE WORLD Human Rigts Film Festival, Prague
BEST MUSIC AND SOUND TRACK Special prize
2000 “Angelos’ Film” Grand Prize, XI ENCOTROS INTERNACIONALIS DE CINEMA DOCUMENTAL PORTUGAL - , Manuel Costa e Silva Melhor Documentário Longa Metragem and the Honor Diplom of the Cineclub Portuges
2000 “THE MAELSTROM”, grand prize OUT OF THAT DARKNESS International Film Competition. London
2000 Angelos’ Film” San Francisco International Film Festival,
Documentary Golden Gate Award, the Golden Spire,
1999 “The Maelstrom” Jerusalem International Film Festival,
The MAYOR’S “Jewish Experience Prize” for best documentary film
1999 “The Danube Exodus” Krakow Int. Doc. & Short Film Festival,
Silver Dragon prix and FIPRESCI prize,
1999 The Danube Exodus” 30th Hungarian Film Week Documentary Film Grand Prize
1998 The Balázs Béla Film Award of the Hungarian Republic
1998 „Free Fall” Hungarian Film Critics Prize "The Best Documentary-Fiction
and the Best Film Music Prize
1997 “Free Fall” Leipzig, International Film Festival, , FIPRESCI Prize
1997 „Free Fall” PRIX EUROPA Grand Prize” Berlin, Non-Fiction Program of the year
1997 „Free Fall” Marseilles, International Document Film Festival ‘vue sur le docs’ GRAND PRIZE & CNC “Image de la culture” special award
1997 „Free Fall” 28th Hungarian Film Week,
short & experimental film Grand Prize, Budapest
1996 Honor Knight Cross of the Hungarian Republic,
1995 „Meanwhile Somewhere” Hungarian title: Miközben valahol
“Lattücht” Prize DokumentART 95 Festival, Neubrandenburg, Germany,
1994 Wittgenstein Tractatus” Montecattini Terme Grand Prix
1993; "Márai Herbal"
2nd Prize Berlin Sport and Young film Festival
1993 "Culture Shavings" Prix St. Germaine de Geneva’
Geneva, Switzerland, 5e Semaine Internationale de Video,
1993 “Wittgenstein Tractatus” Film & Video Festival Strasbourg
Video Les Beaux Jours Prix
1993 “Wittgenstein Tractatus” Video Grand Prix Lucerne Switzerland:
VIPER Film & Video Festival
1993 "Wittgenstein Tractatus" - Sound Base Arts Video Festival;
Grand Prix Wroclaw, Poland,
1992 "The Private Hungary" series
Hungarian Film Critics / The Best Hungarian Documentary Film Prize,
1991 "Dusi and Jenő" 1989, video 45,’
Marseilles, France, 2nd "European Document Film Biennial" Grand Prix
1990 "The Bartos Family" World Wide Video Festival, Grand Prix The Hague
WORKS IN PUBLIC COLLECTIONS Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest,
Ludwig Museum, Budapest
Samlung Oppenheim (Oppenheim Collection) Bonn,
Video Les Beaux Jours Collection Strasbourg, France
Pacific Film Archives, Berkeley. Cal. USA
MOMA, Museum of Modern Arts, Film and Video collection, New York
Nederland Filmmuseum,, Amsterdam
Centre Pompidou & Musé d'Art Moderne,
Zentrum für Medien Kunst, ZKM, collection, Karlsruhe,
Haus der Dokumentarfilm collection Stuttgart,
In Video collection, Milan
Center National du Cinematographie, Paris
KIASMA Kunsthalle, Helsinki.
Akademie der Künste, Berlin
Open Society Archive, Central European University, Budapest
C3 Media Art Center, Budapest
The Getty Museum - Research Institute, Special Collection, Los Angeles
USC Film School - Annenberg Center for Communications - Los Angeles
Stanford University Library - Green Library- Stanford, USA
Australian Center for the Moving Image – ACMI - CINEMEDIA – Melbourne
Three art documentary DVD publication- by the Ministry of Education, Hungary Selected bibliography Josef Woodard: "Hitting Home" (Private Hungary) Santa Barbara Independent 26/03/92
Jerome Mallien: "»Wittgenstein« Sourire á l’objectif" Derniere Nouvelles d’Alsac 23/03/93
Jerome Mallien: „Forgács, la colére froide du concept” Derniere Nouvelles d’Alsac 05/0495
György Spíró: "Midnight or A Couple from the Attila Street"
„Éjféltájban avagy: házaspár az Attila úton” Népszabadság (Budapest) 28/04/91
Annick Péignégiuly: "Cine-journal d’une famille hongroise" Liberation 27/10/91
Gergely Bikácsi: „Forgács Péter álommásolatai”
"Dream Copies of Péter Forgács” Magyar Napló (Budapest) 28/06/91
Peternák Miklós: “Privát Magyarország” „Private Hungary” Belvedere (Budapest) 1991/1
Pieter Bogaert: "Interlude Leven is Ijdelheid" Andere Sinema 1992/06
Mieke Bernink: "De Tragiek van de Tijd" Screen 1990/54
Laurence Follea: "Images d’Amateurs" Le Monde 1991/10/28
Balassa Péter: "Privát Magyarország Filmrégészet" „Private Hungary - Filmarcheology”
Kritika (Budapest) 1992/02
Albert Wulffers: "Het Spel der Vergissen" Nederland Film Museum Themareeks/20 1993/10
Bori Erzsébet “A mondható és a látható világ”. Beszélõ (Budapest) 1993 /03/13
Hajdu István: “Exibició Isten közönyében” „Exhibitionism in the Indiference of God” Balkon (Budapest) 1994/10
J. R. „Nazi-troepen in de stad” NRC Handelsblatt (Amsterdam)10/11/93
Raymond van den Boogard “Allemaal deschuld van de CIA”
NRC Handelsblatt (Amsterdam) 27/06/1997
Hulb Stam “Nederladndse films in trek op IDFA” Volksrkrant (Amsterdam) 01/12/1997
Paolo Vecchi “Budapest: Produzione In Ripresa” L’Unita (Roma) 1997 02 16
Bori Erzsébet “…s romlandóbb mint a málna, vagy a hal”
“Forgács Péter újabb elégiái” Beszélő (Budapest) 1994/11/18
Christian Iseli Visualised Memories DOX /Denmark-Switzerland/ August 1997
Peternák Miklós “INSTALLÁCIÓFORGÁCSOK” “INSTALLATIONSHAVINGS”
katalógus bevezető Kiscelli Múzeum (Budapest) 1995
Néray Katalin “Between Actualities and Utopias in Central Europe”
Shiseido Exhibition Catalogue Tokyo 1996
Hirishi Minamishima “Christ in a Sock” Shiseido Exhibition Catalogue Tokyo 1996
Gerjan Zuilhof “Az örvény…”FREE FALL” 26th IFFR Catalogue Rotterdam 1997
Schubert Gusztáv “A démon fényképészei” Filmvilág (Budapest) 1997/8
Vasák Benedek Balázs “A történelem melankóliája” Múlt és Jövő (Budapest) 1997/2
Földényi F. László Analitikus terek – Forgács Péter installációi
In. Magyar Lettre 29
Antonia Naim Marseille Festival in. il manifesto 1997 szeptember 23
Catherine Bangonnet FREE FALL in. Images documentaires n°28
Kenneth Turan ‘The Most Personal Filmmakers’ in: Los Angeles Times. December 1 1998,
Földény F. László: - ‘Történelmi terápia filmen’ (History Therapy on Film) in: Metropolis, 1999 Summer
Forgách András: ‘Zárt kertek pusztulása’ in: Metropolis, 1999 NYÁR.
Bori Erzsébet: “Waching the River Flow” in Hungarian Quartely/Summer/1999
Andrew J. Horton “Forgacs Shows...” Central Europe Review 12/1999
Nico de Klerk: Vaderschap, vaderland. Skrien 2000/01
Steve Seid: Péter Forgács turns Home movies Into a Private Epiphanies
in: RELEASE PRINT July/August 2000 San Francisco
Dennis Harvey: Angelos’ Film in: Variety May 8-14 2000
Timo-Erkki Heino EN HAULA INFORMOIDA, EN HAULA OPETTAA, EN HAULA VIIHDYTTÄÄ in: MEDIA VIRTUOSI kesä/2000
Carolyn Chapman: Strait from the Horse’s Mouth: Hungary’s Contemporary Art Scene
In: Where Budapest and in : Live Budapest/Art March 06 2000
Michael Renov: The Maelstrom – A Family Chronicle
in: catalogue Boston Jewish Film Festival, November 2-12 2000,
Marnix Beekmans: Turbulente periodeb in Griekse geschiedenis door gat in blik gefilmd /Angelos’ Film/ TROUW 2000/02/07 /Amsterdam/
H.J.A. Hofland Uit het rauwe leven /Angelos’ Film/
NRC Handelsblatt 2000/02/07 /Amsterdam/
Giacomo Gambetti: Péter Forgács in Lumière Cinema e Altro
25-26 gennaio-giugno 2001
Catherine Portuges: Home Movies, Found Images, and “Amateur Film” as a Witness to History. In / Moving Imgage / pp 107-123 / Fall 2001 / Minnesota Press
Deirdre Boyle Meanwhile Somewhere…. A discussion with Péter Forgács
Millenium Film Journal / Fall 2001
Bill Nichols: . in Introduction to Documentary pp. 105, 135-137
Sven Spieker At the Center of Mitteleuropa /A Conversation with Peter Forgács, in ArtMargins 2001 http://www.artmargins.com/content/interview/forgacs.html
Gergely Bikácsy Privát Magyarország - Forgács Péter filmjei in http://www.magyar.film.hu/ 2000 09 -17
Ron Holloway: Bibó Breviárium in Moving Pictures/ Május 22 2002
Patrice Carré: A Bibó Breviárium de P. F. In Le film Francaise Május 22 2002
Phillippe Azoury: Vue d’une figure libre hongroise in Liberation Május 23 2002
Jacques Mandelbaum: Rhapsodies d’un antitotalitariste exemplaire in Le Monde Május 23 2002
Suzanne Muchnic On a River of Memory in LA TIMES August 11, 2002
Leah Ollman "As History and Memory Ebb and Flow" in Los Angeles Times, September 1, 2002
János Weiss, J. A. Tillmann and Tamás Fehérvári “Bibó breviárium”, in Filmvilág, June 2002
Joseph Hanania: “World War Ii Refugees Who Shared Little But Pain” in N Y Times Szeptember 25, 2002
Paolo Vecchi L’ALTRA FACCIA DELL’ESISTENZA UMANA, Trieste Forgács Péter Grafitti Ungherese Retrospektiv a “Magyar év Olaszországban. 2002” rendezvény keretében
Paolo Simoni: Archeologia della storia privata, in FILMMAKER/12 – 2002
Oliver Kohn: Pages arrées au livre du temps. Introduction sommaire au travail de Péter Forgács in. Positif No. 505 March 2003
Bill Nichols: The Memory of Loss: ,A Conversation with Peter Forgács’ in Film Quarterly VOL 56 No. 4 Summer 2003
Jessica Kedward: ‘“The Psychoanalysis of Histrory” Péter Forgács in the GRI’ in: first draft - of the Getty Museum - Research Institute. 2003/1
Roger Odin: La Famille Bartos de Péter forgács, ou comment rendre l’histoire sensibile
In: Théorème / Cinéma Hongroise – Le temps et histoire / PRESSES SORBONNE NOUVELLE 2003
Fiona Trigg: Burgeoise Dictionaries / Meanwhile Somewhere…1940-1943
In: remembrance + the moving image / 2003 Australian Centre for the Moving Image
Malin Wahlberg: Figures of Times / chapter Private Recollection – The Family Album pp 209 -220
Michael Rush: Wittgenstein Tractatus p. 143 in: Video Art - Thames & Hudson 2003
Michael Rush: Private Hungary: The Bartos Family. p. 106-108 in New Media in Late 20th-Century Art (World of Art) by- Thames & Hudson 1999
Michael Renov: Historical Discourses of the Inconceivable One. in: montage/av 2002 #2
Private Europe - il cinema di Péter Forgács 72 pages booklet published by FILMMAKER Nov. 2003 Milano.
Marsha Kinder and Zaia Alexander: The Danube Exodus p. 359. In Future Cinema ed. J. Shaw & P. Weibel ZKM 2003
Catherine Bangonnet The FREE FALL in: The World Best 50 Documentaries, in. DOX/6 2003 december
Kim Skotte Mit private Ungarn / In: Politiken /2004 Feb. 1 / Copenhagen
Malin Wahlberg Forgács filmer gör det förflutna mer gripbart . In: Svenska Dagbladet /Kultur 2004 Feb. 1 Stockholm
Eva Ekselius Innan vardagen föll i bitar In: Dagens Nyheter / Kultur 2004 Jan. 31 Stockholm
Michael Renov: “Historical Discourses of the Unimaginable: P. Forgacs The Maelstrom” In: Film magasine VICTOR 9-2004, Malmo
Péter Forgács (Budapest, September 10. 1950) is a media artist and independent filmmaker based in Budapest, whose works have been exhibited worldwide. Since 1978 he has made more than thirty films. He is best known for his installations and the "Private Hungary" series of award-winning art-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. In 1983, Forgács 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.
The Board of the Praemium Erasmianum Foundation has decided to award the Erasmus Prize 2007 to the Hungarian filmmaker and media artist Péter Forgács. Through his documentary work the artist Péter Forgács has made an original contribution to the process of cultural memory and the transmission of culture, thereby furthering and deepening our understanding of the past. By using authentic amateur and home movies Péter Forgács creates in his films a direct view of historical events. He does not tell new stories, but offers new perspectives on known episodes. His films have no political or ideological agenda. Through intimate images from the private lives of ordinary citizens, Forgács confronts the present day world of the viewer with the recent past and in so doing transmits the memory of these episodes. INSTALLATIONS AND PERFORMANCES 2004 • „Educational Cinema” / „Oktatófilm” installation Az elhallgatott holocaust / Suppressed Holocaust, group exhibition / Art Palace / Műcsarnok / Budapest • „SIGHT” „Tekintet”, Photo installation / AURA /C3 group exhibition
Millenáris Pavilion/D. Budapest • “Der Kaiser auf dem Spaziergang” DVD installation , AEGINA, Greece part of the Light-Image Reality Project • “The Danube Exodus - The Rippling Currents of a River” exhibition Future Cinema / ZKM Karlsruhe, and in CCCB Barcelona
2003 • Free Fall Oratorio with Tibor Szemző, Goethe Institute, Munchen
2002 • “The visit” installation in “What?” exhibition, Brugge Cultural Capital of Europe • “The Danube Exodus - The Rippling Currents of a River” exhibition, The Getty Museum, Research Institute, Los Angeles, & The Labyrinth Project / USC
2000 • Free Fall Oratorio with Tibor Szemző at the 20th San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, USA Premiere • “The Visit” video installation - 56 Gallery, Budapest
1999 • "Hungarian Totem" 1949-1999 Central European Avant-garde Ludwig Museum, Vienna, & Contemporary Mus. Madrid • "Hungarian Totem" Zeitgenössische Kunst aus Ungarn, Fellbach Germany • "Hungarian Totem" and ‘Dream Inventory’ ‘MOST’ group Exhibition, Bochum Museum • "Hungarian Totem" FAUNA, group exhibition Zachenta Museum, Warsaw.
1998 • „The Hung Aryan” Video Installation OBSERVATORIUM, group exhibition, Ujezdowsky Gallery, Warsaw • "Hungarian Totem" Roma INTER ACTUS 5 Accademia Ungheria • ‘Dream Inventory’ MUHKA Gallery, Antwerp. Belgium
1997 „The Hung Aryan” / ‘A KASZT Ó!’ Video Installation, Budapest Gallery, Budapest • „Saloon, and Then!” “Szalon na!” installation, Liget Gallery, Budapest • ‘Dream Inventory’ Landes Museum, Graz, Austria „Beyond Art & Science” Austro-Hungarian Exhibition • "Hungarian Totem" in Krakow, Poland and Hungary, ”a triple dialogue” group exhibition
1996 • ‘Dream Inventory’ Ludwig Museum, Austro-Hungarian Exhibition Budapest • "Hungarian Totem” video installation Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo
1996 • "Hungarian Totem” Sao Paolo XXVIII. Biennial • "Hungarian Totem" Postmasters Gallery, New York,
1995 • ‘Dream Inventory’, ‘Wittgenstein Inventory’, ’Totem’ Kiscell, Municipal Gallery, Budapest
1993 • "Hungarian Totem" video installation., Nederland Film Museum, Amsterdam • "TOTEM" video installation , Kapolcs village, Hungary • “Two Nests and Other Things" Prague, Hungarian Culture Institute Gallery • "Hungarian Video Kitchen Art" installation, 10th World Wide Video Festival, The Hague,
1992 • “Two Nests and Other Things" Video Installation, French Cultural Institute Budapest • "The Case of My Room’, VIDEO installation Laing Art Gallery, “The Shifting Borders“ Newcastle
1991 • "Thee á'El Greco" Video Installation. Homage El Greco group Exhibition, Museum of Fine Arts Budapest • "Hungarian Video Kitchen Art" installation, Sub Voce Exhibition, Műcsarnok/Art Palace, Budapest
1990 • New Paintings by HUNGARIAN CONTEMPORARY ART Group Exhibition, Palais Universitet, Strasbourg
1989 • "Private Exits" performance, with Szemzõ Tibor. TÖNE & GEGEN TÖNE FESTIVAL. Vienna
1988 • Paintings & photographs. One man show in FOTOHOF GALERIE Salzburg
1987 • Xerox Graphics - ‘Partenope’ group exhibition, Accademia d'Ungheria, Rome,
1985/86 • Pig paintings Apollo Huis, Eindhoven, Holland
1985 • "Snapshot from the Island" performance /with Tibor Szemzõ Apollohuis Eindhoven, The Hague, Frankfurt am Main, Cologne, Vienna • "Work Desk" Video performance and installation. Ernst Museum, with Tibor Szemzõ
1984 • "Black Hole" Performance, ‘Plánum’ International Avant-garde Festival, Budapest, with Tamás Tóth
1983 • "Dixi & Pixi" video performance Kassák Culture Center, with Dixi, Group 180, László Lugo Lugosi
1982 • "Chlorophyll” performance with László Lugo Lugosi at YAC Bp.
1981 • "New York - BUDAPEST" paintings, Young Artists Club (YAC), Budapest Photos by László Lugo Lugosi
1980 • "INAUGURATION" video performance (YAC) BP: with László Lugo Lugosi, István Mártha, and Lajos Somoskõi
1979 • "Stanley & Livingston” performance. Young Artists Club (YAC) Budapest, with Gusztáv Hámos & László Lugosi Lugo
FILM & VIDEO-GRAPH 2004 El Perro Negro Spanish Stories 1929-1939 * 90 and 52 min
2003 “Mutual Analysis” video * 12 min
2003 “The HungAryan” three-screen-video *49 min
2003 „Der Kaiser auf dem Spaziergang” DVD NFM / LIGHT + Image, 15:30
2002 “The Bishop’s Garden” Private Hungary/14 video 56:30 min
2001 “A Bibó Reader “ Private Hungary/13 35 mm film + video *69 min
1999 “Angelos’ Film” video * 60 min.
1998 „The Danube Exodus” video * 60 min.
1997 “Kádár’s Kiss” Private Hungary/12 video * 52’ min.
1997 „The Maelstrom” A Family Chronic video 60’ min.
1997 „Class Lot” Private Hungary/11 video 52’ min.
1996 „Free Fall” BBS HTV Private Hungary/10 video 75’ min.
1996 „The Land Of Nothing” Private Hungary /9 video 62’min.
1994 Simply Happy / Domweg Gelukkig, with Albert Wolffers 46 and 72 min.
1994 “Meanwhile Somewhere” 1940-43...” BBS-HTV 52 min.
1994 „The Notes of a Lady” Private Hungary/ 8 video 48 min.
1994 “Hungarian Totem” 26 min
1993 Conversations on Psychoanalysis series
1. Freud & Vienna 53 min.
2 Sándor Ferenczi & the Budapest School of Psychoanalysis 53 min.
3. The Psychoanalytic View of Man 55 min.
4. Psychoanalysis & Society 53 min.
5. Psychoanalysis as Therapy 58 min.
1993 Culture Shavings video 43 min.
1992 Bourgeoisie Dictionaries Private Hungary /7 video 49 min.
1992 Wittgenstein Tractatus (Interlude series) video 35 min
1991 Arizona diary -( with poet György Petri) video 53 min.
1991 Márai Herbal (Interlude series) video 35 min
1990 The Diary of Mr. N. Private Hungary /4 video 51 min.
1989 Either --Or Private Hungary /3 video 43 min.
1989 Dusi & Jenõ (Private Hungary /2) video 45 min.
1988 The Bartos Family (Private Hungary 1) video 60 min.
1987 Episodes from the Life of Professor M.F. video 110 min.
1986 The Portrait of Leopold Szondi video 60 min.
1985 Spinoza Rückwertz / 35 mm. film 5 min.
1985 Golden Age video 20 min.
1985 Iron Age video 50 min.
1978 I See That I Look video 25 min AWARDS 2007 Erasmus Prize 2007
2002 “A Bibó Reader” , 33rd Hungarian Film Festival, Budapest
Best Director PRIZE of SHORT & EXPERIMENTAL FILM,
Selected by Quinzaine des Réalisateurs, Cannes 2002
2001 Angelos’ Film” ONE WORLD Human Rigts Film Festival, Prague
BEST MUSIC AND SOUND TRACK Special prize
2000 “Angelos’ Film” Grand Prize, XI ENCOTROS INTERNACIONALIS DE CINEMA DOCUMENTAL PORTUGAL - , Manuel Costa e Silva Melhor Documentário Longa Metragem and the Honor Diplom of the Cineclub Portuges
2000 “THE MAELSTROM”, grand prize OUT OF THAT DARKNESS International Film Competition. London
2000 Angelos’ Film” San Francisco International Film Festival,
Documentary Golden Gate Award, the Golden Spire,
1999 “The Maelstrom” Jerusalem International Film Festival,
The MAYOR’S “Jewish Experience Prize” for best documentary film
1999 “The Danube Exodus” Krakow Int. Doc. & Short Film Festival,
Silver Dragon prix and FIPRESCI prize,
1999 The Danube Exodus” 30th Hungarian Film Week Documentary Film Grand Prize
1998 The Balázs Béla Film Award of the Hungarian Republic
1998 „Free Fall” Hungarian Film Critics Prize "The Best Documentary-Fiction
and the Best Film Music Prize
1997 “Free Fall” Leipzig, International Film Festival, , FIPRESCI Prize
1997 „Free Fall” PRIX EUROPA Grand Prize” Berlin, Non-Fiction Program of the year
1997 „Free Fall” Marseilles, International Document Film Festival ‘vue sur le docs’ GRAND PRIZE & CNC “Image de la culture” special award
1997 „Free Fall” 28th Hungarian Film Week,
short & experimental film Grand Prize, Budapest
1996 Honor Knight Cross of the Hungarian Republic,
1995 „Meanwhile Somewhere” Hungarian title: Miközben valahol
“Lattücht” Prize DokumentART 95 Festival, Neubrandenburg, Germany,
1994 Wittgenstein Tractatus” Montecattini Terme Grand Prix
1993; "Márai Herbal"
2nd Prize Berlin Sport and Young film Festival
1993 "Culture Shavings" Prix St. Germaine de Geneva’
Geneva, Switzerland, 5e Semaine Internationale de Video,
1993 “Wittgenstein Tractatus” Film & Video Festival Strasbourg
Video Les Beaux Jours Prix
1993 “Wittgenstein Tractatus” Video Grand Prix Lucerne Switzerland:
VIPER Film & Video Festival
1993 "Wittgenstein Tractatus" - Sound Base Arts Video Festival;
Grand Prix Wroclaw, Poland,
1992 "The Private Hungary" series
Hungarian Film Critics / The Best Hungarian Documentary Film Prize,
1991 "Dusi and Jenő" 1989, video 45,’
Marseilles, France, 2nd "European Document Film Biennial" Grand Prix
1990 "The Bartos Family" World Wide Video Festival, Grand Prix The Hague
WORKS IN PUBLIC COLLECTIONS Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest,
Ludwig Museum, Budapest
Samlung Oppenheim (Oppenheim Collection) Bonn,
Video Les Beaux Jours Collection Strasbourg, France
Pacific Film Archives, Berkeley. Cal. USA
MOMA, Museum of Modern Arts, Film and Video collection, New York
Nederland Filmmuseum,, Amsterdam
Centre Pompidou & Musé d'Art Moderne,
Zentrum für Medien Kunst, ZKM, collection, Karlsruhe,
Haus der Dokumentarfilm collection Stuttgart,
In Video collection, Milan
Center National du Cinematographie, Paris
KIASMA Kunsthalle, Helsinki.
Akademie der Künste, Berlin
Open Society Archive, Central European University, Budapest
C3 Media Art Center, Budapest
The Getty Museum - Research Institute, Special Collection, Los Angeles
USC Film School - Annenberg Center for Communications - Los Angeles
Stanford University Library - Green Library- Stanford, USA
Australian Center for the Moving Image – ACMI - CINEMEDIA – Melbourne
Three art documentary DVD publication- by the Ministry of Education, Hungary Selected bibliography Josef Woodard: "Hitting Home" (Private Hungary) Santa Barbara Independent 26/03/92
Jerome Mallien: "»Wittgenstein« Sourire á l’objectif" Derniere Nouvelles d’Alsac 23/03/93
Jerome Mallien: „Forgács, la colére froide du concept” Derniere Nouvelles d’Alsac 05/0495
György Spíró: "Midnight or A Couple from the Attila Street"
„Éjféltájban avagy: házaspár az Attila úton” Népszabadság (Budapest) 28/04/91
Annick Péignégiuly: "Cine-journal d’une famille hongroise" Liberation 27/10/91
Gergely Bikácsi: „Forgács Péter álommásolatai”
"Dream Copies of Péter Forgács” Magyar Napló (Budapest) 28/06/91
Peternák Miklós: “Privát Magyarország” „Private Hungary” Belvedere (Budapest) 1991/1
Pieter Bogaert: "Interlude Leven is Ijdelheid" Andere Sinema 1992/06
Mieke Bernink: "De Tragiek van de Tijd" Screen 1990/54
Laurence Follea: "Images d’Amateurs" Le Monde 1991/10/28
Balassa Péter: "Privát Magyarország Filmrégészet" „Private Hungary - Filmarcheology”
Kritika (Budapest) 1992/02
Albert Wulffers: "Het Spel der Vergissen" Nederland Film Museum Themareeks/20 1993/10
Bori Erzsébet “A mondható és a látható világ”. Beszélõ (Budapest) 1993 /03/13
Hajdu István: “Exibició Isten közönyében” „Exhibitionism in the Indiference of God” Balkon (Budapest) 1994/10
J. R. „Nazi-troepen in de stad” NRC Handelsblatt (Amsterdam)10/11/93
Raymond van den Boogard “Allemaal deschuld van de CIA”
NRC Handelsblatt (Amsterdam) 27/06/1997
Hulb Stam “Nederladndse films in trek op IDFA” Volksrkrant (Amsterdam) 01/12/1997
Paolo Vecchi “Budapest: Produzione In Ripresa” L’Unita (Roma) 1997 02 16
Bori Erzsébet “…s romlandóbb mint a málna, vagy a hal”
“Forgács Péter újabb elégiái” Beszélő (Budapest) 1994/11/18
Christian Iseli Visualised Memories DOX /Denmark-Switzerland/ August 1997
Peternák Miklós “INSTALLÁCIÓFORGÁCSOK” “INSTALLATIONSHAVINGS”
katalógus bevezető Kiscelli Múzeum (Budapest) 1995
Néray Katalin “Between Actualities and Utopias in Central Europe”
Shiseido Exhibition Catalogue Tokyo 1996
Hirishi Minamishima “Christ in a Sock” Shiseido Exhibition Catalogue Tokyo 1996
Gerjan Zuilhof “Az örvény…”FREE FALL” 26th IFFR Catalogue Rotterdam 1997
Schubert Gusztáv “A démon fényképészei” Filmvilág (Budapest) 1997/8
Vasák Benedek Balázs “A történelem melankóliája” Múlt és Jövő (Budapest) 1997/2
Földényi F. László Analitikus terek – Forgács Péter installációi
In. Magyar Lettre 29
Antonia Naim Marseille Festival in. il manifesto 1997 szeptember 23
Catherine Bangonnet FREE FALL in. Images documentaires n°28
Kenneth Turan ‘The Most Personal Filmmakers’ in: Los Angeles Times. December 1 1998,
Földény F. László: - ‘Történelmi terápia filmen’ (History Therapy on Film) in: Metropolis, 1999 Summer
Forgách András: ‘Zárt kertek pusztulása’ in: Metropolis, 1999 NYÁR.
Bori Erzsébet: “Waching the River Flow” in Hungarian Quartely/Summer/1999
Andrew J. Horton “Forgacs Shows...” Central Europe Review 12/1999
Nico de Klerk: Vaderschap, vaderland. Skrien 2000/01
Steve Seid: Péter Forgács turns Home movies Into a Private Epiphanies
in: RELEASE PRINT July/August 2000 San Francisco
Dennis Harvey: Angelos’ Film in: Variety May 8-14 2000
Timo-Erkki Heino EN HAULA INFORMOIDA, EN HAULA OPETTAA, EN HAULA VIIHDYTTÄÄ in: MEDIA VIRTUOSI kesä/2000
Carolyn Chapman: Strait from the Horse’s Mouth: Hungary’s Contemporary Art Scene
In: Where Budapest and in : Live Budapest/Art March 06 2000
Michael Renov: The Maelstrom – A Family Chronicle
in: catalogue Boston Jewish Film Festival, November 2-12 2000,
Marnix Beekmans: Turbulente periodeb in Griekse geschiedenis door gat in blik gefilmd /Angelos’ Film/ TROUW 2000/02/07 /Amsterdam/
H.J.A. Hofland Uit het rauwe leven /Angelos’ Film/
NRC Handelsblatt 2000/02/07 /Amsterdam/
Giacomo Gambetti: Péter Forgács in Lumière Cinema e Altro
25-26 gennaio-giugno 2001
Catherine Portuges: Home Movies, Found Images, and “Amateur Film” as a Witness to History. In / Moving Imgage / pp 107-123 / Fall 2001 / Minnesota Press
Deirdre Boyle Meanwhile Somewhere…. A discussion with Péter Forgács
Millenium Film Journal / Fall 2001
Bill Nichols: . in Introduction to Documentary pp. 105, 135-137
Sven Spieker At the Center of Mitteleuropa /A Conversation with Peter Forgács, in ArtMargins 2001 http://www.artmargins.com/content/interview/forgacs.html
Gergely Bikácsy Privát Magyarország - Forgács Péter filmjei in http://www.magyar.film.hu/ 2000 09 -17
Ron Holloway: Bibó Breviárium in Moving Pictures/ Május 22 2002
Patrice Carré: A Bibó Breviárium de P. F. In Le film Francaise Május 22 2002
Phillippe Azoury: Vue d’une figure libre hongroise in Liberation Május 23 2002
Jacques Mandelbaum: Rhapsodies d’un antitotalitariste exemplaire in Le Monde Május 23 2002
Suzanne Muchnic On a River of Memory in LA TIMES August 11, 2002
Leah Ollman "As History and Memory Ebb and Flow" in Los Angeles Times, September 1, 2002
János Weiss, J. A. Tillmann and Tamás Fehérvári “Bibó breviárium”, in Filmvilág, June 2002
Joseph Hanania: “World War Ii Refugees Who Shared Little But Pain” in N Y Times Szeptember 25, 2002
Paolo Vecchi L’ALTRA FACCIA DELL’ESISTENZA UMANA, Trieste Forgács Péter Grafitti Ungherese Retrospektiv a “Magyar év Olaszországban. 2002” rendezvény keretében
Paolo Simoni: Archeologia della storia privata, in FILMMAKER/12 – 2002
Oliver Kohn: Pages arrées au livre du temps. Introduction sommaire au travail de Péter Forgács in. Positif No. 505 March 2003
Bill Nichols: The Memory of Loss: ,A Conversation with Peter Forgács’ in Film Quarterly VOL 56 No. 4 Summer 2003
Jessica Kedward: ‘“The Psychoanalysis of Histrory” Péter Forgács in the GRI’ in: first draft - of the Getty Museum - Research Institute. 2003/1
Roger Odin: La Famille Bartos de Péter forgács, ou comment rendre l’histoire sensibile
In: Théorème / Cinéma Hongroise – Le temps et histoire / PRESSES SORBONNE NOUVELLE 2003
Fiona Trigg: Burgeoise Dictionaries / Meanwhile Somewhere…1940-1943
In: remembrance + the moving image / 2003 Australian Centre for the Moving Image
Malin Wahlberg: Figures of Times / chapter Private Recollection – The Family Album pp 209 -220
Michael Rush: Wittgenstein Tractatus p. 143 in: Video Art - Thames & Hudson 2003
Michael Rush: Private Hungary: The Bartos Family. p. 106-108 in New Media in Late 20th-Century Art (World of Art) by- Thames & Hudson 1999
Michael Renov: Historical Discourses of the Inconceivable One. in: montage/av 2002 #2
Private Europe - il cinema di Péter Forgács 72 pages booklet published by FILMMAKER Nov. 2003 Milano.
Marsha Kinder and Zaia Alexander: The Danube Exodus p. 359. In Future Cinema ed. J. Shaw & P. Weibel ZKM 2003
Catherine Bangonnet The FREE FALL in: The World Best 50 Documentaries, in. DOX/6 2003 december
Kim Skotte Mit private Ungarn / In: Politiken /2004 Feb. 1 / Copenhagen
Malin Wahlberg Forgács filmer gör det förflutna mer gripbart . In: Svenska Dagbladet /Kultur 2004 Feb. 1 Stockholm
Eva Ekselius Innan vardagen föll i bitar In: Dagens Nyheter / Kultur 2004 Jan. 31 Stockholm
Michael Renov: “Historical Discourses of the Unimaginable: P. Forgacs The Maelstrom” In: Film magasine VICTOR 9-2004, Malmo
