Curriculum Vitae
Péter Forgács (1950) media artist and independent filmmaker, based in Budapest. Since 1978 he has made more than thirty films and several media installations. He is best known for his "Private Hungary" series of award winning films and installations often based on home movies from the 1920s-1980s, which document ordinary lives that were soon to be ruptured by an extraordinary historical trauma that occurs off screen.
Biography
Forgács “has given the private archive project an ontological dimension, turning it into a reflection on the nature of memory, the construction of history, and the phenomenology of film-making itself.” Joanne Richardson.
Awards
| 2010 | • Hungarian Cultural Ambassador |
| Hungarian Ministry of Education and Culture's award |
| 2008 | I am Von Höfler • Creative Documentary Film Grand Prize |
| Hungarian Film Week • Budapest |
| 2008 | Own Death • Best Experimental Film Prize |
| Hungarian Film Week • Budapest |
| 2007 | • Erasmus Prize |
| Praemium Erasmianum Foundation, Amsterdam |
| 2007 | Miss Universe 1929 • Special Mention |
| Hungarian Film Week • Budapest |
| 2006 | El Perro Negro • Documantary Grand Prize |
| Hungarian Film Week, Budapest |
| 2005 | El Perro Negro • The Maysles Brothers Documentary Grand Prize |
| Denver International Film Festival |
| 2005 | El Perro Negro • Feature Length Documentary Film Award |
| Tribeca International Film Festival, New York |
| 2002 | A Bibó Reader • Best Director PRIZE of SHORT & EXPERIMENTAL FILM |
| 33rd Hungarian Film Festival, Budapest |
| 2001 | Angelos' Film • Best Music and Soud Track Special Award |
| One World Film Festival, Prague |
| 2000 | The Maelstrom • Grand Prize |
| Out Of That Darkness” International Film Festival, London |
| 2000 | Angelos' Film • The Golden Spire |
| San Francisco International Film Festival |
| 2000 | Angelos' Film • Golden Gate Award - The Golden Spire |
| San Francisco International Film Festival |
| 2000 | Angelos' Film • Documentário Longa Grand Prize |
| XI Encotros Internacionalis De Cinema Documental, Portugal |
| 1999 | The Danube Exodus • Fipresci Prize |
| Krakow International Documentary Film Festival |
| 1999 | The Danube Exodus • The Silver Dragon Prize |
| Krakow International Documentary Film Festival |
| 1999 | Free Fall • The Best Documentary Fiction Prize |
| Hungarian Film Critics Prize, Budapest |
| 1999 | Free Fall • Best Film Music Prize |
| Hungarian Film Critics Prize, Budapest |
| 1999 | The Danube Exodus • Documentary Grand Prize |
| Hungarian Film Week • Budapest |
| 1999 | The Maelstrom • The MAYOR'S Jewish Experience Prize |
| Jerusalem International Film Festival, Israel |
| 1997 | Free Fall • Television Programme of the Year |
| Prix Europa |
| 1997 | Free Fall • Fipresci Prize |
| Leipzig International Film Festival, Germany |
| 1997 | Free Fall • Grand Prix |
| International Documentary Film Festival of Marseilles |
| 1997 | Free Fall • CNC “Image de la culture” Special Award |
| International Documentary Film oFestival f Marseilles |
| 1997 | Free Fall • Short & Experimental Film Grand Prize |
| Hungarian Film Week • Budapest |
| 1995 | Meanwhile Somewhere ... 1940-1943 • "Lattücht" Prize Dokument |
| RT 95 Festival, Neubrandenburg, Germany |
| 1994 | Wittgeinstein Tractatus • Grand Prize |
| Montecattini, Terme, Italy |
| 1993 | Márai Herbal • 2nd Prize |
| Berlin Sport and Young Film Festival, Germany |
| 1993 | Wittgeinstein Tractatus • Les Beaux Jours Prix |
| International Film & Video Festival, Strasbourg |
| 1993 | Wittgeinstein Tractatus • Video Grand Prix |
| VIPER Film & Video Festival, Lucerne |
| 1993 | Wittgeinstein Tractatus • Grand Prix |
| Sound Base Arts Video Festival, Wroclaw |
| 1991 | Dusi & Jenő • Grand Prize “vue sur la doc” |
| 2nd "European Documentary Film Biennial", Marseilles |
| 1990 | The Bartos Family • Grand Prize |
| World Wide Video Festival, The Hague, Holland |
Works in Public Collections
Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest
Ludwig Museum LUMU, Budapest
Samlung Oppenheim, Bonn
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
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
Free Fall, The Danube Exodus, The Land of Nothing.
DVDs published by the Ministry of Culture and 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
Yale Film Study Center, Yale University, New Haven, USA
Museum of Fine Arts, 20th Century Collection, Budapest
Kiscelli (Municipal) Museum, Budapest orologi replica
Scholarship
Scholar, visiting artist, The Getty Research Institute, The Getty Museum, Los Angeles 2000-2002.
Fulbright Scholarship at NYU, NY 2007
Fulbright Scholarship at NYU, NY 2007
Lectures
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