Péter Forgács(I)
- Director
- Writer
- Cinematographer
Peter Forgacs (b. 1950) independent filmmaker and media artist based in
Budapest. His works have been exhibited world wide. Since 1978 he has
made more than thirty films. He is best known for his "Private Hungary"
series of award-winning films based on home movies from the 1920s and
1970s, which document ordinary lives that were soon to be ruptured by
an extraordinary historical trauma that occurs off screen. In 1983,
Forgacs established the Private Photo & Film Archives Foundation in
Budapest, a unique collection of amateur film footage and has made this
material the raw data for his unique re-orchestrations of history. He
has received several international festival awards.
