Curriculum Vitae

• BIOGRAPHY

• WORKS IN PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

• AWARDS

BIOGRAPHY

Péter Forgács (1950) is a media artist and independent filmmaker based in Budapest, whose 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 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.

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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

Three art documentary DVD, Ministry of 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

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AWARDS

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