フォルガチ・ペーテル Forgács Péter（1950年生まれ）は、ハンガリーのブダペストを拠点に活動するメディアアーティストであり、独立系の映画作家である。最もよく知られた「プライベート・ハンガリー」は、1930年代から1960年代のホームムービーを基にしており、スクリーンの外で起きる歴史的トラウマによって破られる平凡な生活を記録している。

1976年以来、フォルガチ・ペーテルはハンガリーの芸術界でメディアアーティスト/映画製作者として活躍している。 1970年代後半から80年代にかけて、彼は現代音楽のアンサンブル「グループ180」  と協働し、同時にベラ・バラージュ映画スタジオで働き始める。 フォルガチ・ペーテルは、1920年代のアマチュア映画のユニークなコレクションであるプライベート・フォト＆フィルム・アーカイブズ・ファウンデーション（PPFA、1983年）をブダペストに設立し、この素材を「生データ」とし、彼独自のポストモダンな歴史の再編成を行ってきた。2002年にはゲティ研究所で展示会「出ドナウ記：さざめく川の流れ（The Danube Exodus）」を開催。ハーグで開催されたワールド・ワイド・ビデオ・フェスティバル（1990）で『バルトシュ家族（Bartos Family）』（1988） がグランプリを受賞し、初めて国際的に脚光を浴びた。それ以来、ブダペスト、リスボン、マルセイユ、サンフランシスコ、トライベッカ、ベルリン  の国際映画祭で数々の賞を受賞した。2007年には「ヨーロッパの文化に例外的に重要な貢献をした個人や機関に贈られる」エラスムス賞を受賞。2009年にはハンガリー代表としてヴェネツィア・ビエンナーレに参加し、インスタレーション「時とともに―Wプロジェクト（Col Tempo - The W. Project）」を展示。2013 年には、ワルシャワのポーランドユダヤ人歴史博物館（Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw）でクレズマティックスと共同でビデオインスタレーション「遠くへの手紙（Letters to Afar）」、アムステルダムのEYE映像ミュージアム で「おぼろげな火ーオランダ領東インドの物語1900-1940（Looming Fire - Stories from The Dutch East Indies 1900-1940）」を制作。

フィルモグラフィー 

 2011 - GermanUnity@Balaton - Honeyland - produced by Lumen Film Amsterdam / Uj Budapest Film / for zdf/arte - HDCAM video 79 min.
 2009 - Video Active - documentary - for Video Active EU TV online archive promo - web version 10 min.
 2009 - Hunky Blues - The American Dream - produced by Filmpartners Ltd. - HD CAM 100 min.
 2008 - I am Von Höfler - Private Hungary 15 (video 160min)
 2007 - Own Death - fiction film - novel by Péter Nádas (video - 118min)
 2006 - Miss Universe 1929 - Lisl Goldarbeiter - a Queen in Wien (video - 70min) 
 2005 - El Perro Negro - Stories from the Spanish Civil War (video - 84min and 52min)
 2004 - Do You Really Love Me? (video - 33 min)
 2004 - Mutual Analysis (video - 12min)
 2003 - Der Kaiser auf dem Spaziergang - light & image project (DVD - 15'30min)
 2002 - The Bishop’s Garden - Private Hungary 14 (video - 56'30min)
 2001 - A Bibó Reader - Private Hungary 13 (35mm film and video - 69min)
 1999 - Angelos’ Film (video - 60min)
 1998 - The Danube Exodus (video - 60min) 
 1997 - The Maelstrom - A Family Chronic (video - 60’05min) 
 1997 - Kádár’s Kiss - Private Hungary 12 (video - 52min)
 1997 - Class Lot - Private Hungary 11 (video - 52min)
 1996 - Free Fall - Private Hungary 10 (video - 75min)
 1996 - The Land of Nothing - Private Hungary 9 (video - 62min)
 1994 - Meanwhile Somewhere 1940-43... (video - 52min)
 1994 - The Notes of a Lady - Private Hungary 8 (video - 48min)
 1994 - Hungarian Totem (video - 26min)
 1993 - Conversations on Psychoanalysis - documentary series 5/5
 1993 - Simply Happy - with Albert Wulffers (35mm film and video - 52min)
 1993 - Culture Shavings (video - 43min)
 1992 - Bourgeoisie Dictionary - Private Hungary 7 (video - 49min)
 1992 - Wittgenstein Tractatus - INTERLUDE series (video - 35min) 
 1991 - Arizona diary - with poet György Petri (video - 53min)
 1991 - Photographed by László Dudás - Private Hungary 6 (video - 45min)
 1991 - D-FILM - Private Hungary 5 (video - 45min)
 1991 - Márai Herbal - INTERLUDE series (video - 30min)
 1990 - The Diary of Mr. N. - Private Hungary 4 (video - 51min)
 1989 - Either - Or - Private Hungary 3 (video - 43min)
 1989 - Dusi & Jenő - Private Hungary 2 (video - 45min)
 1988 - The Bartos Family - Private Hungary 1 (video - 60min)
 1987 - Episodes from the Life of Professor M.F. (video - 110min)
 1986 - The Portrait of Leopold Szondi (video - 60min)
 1985 - Spinoza Rückwertz (35mm film - 5min)
 1978 - I See That I Look (video - 25min)

インスタレーション作品・パフォーマンス作品 

 2013 - Forgacs created the ″Letters to Afar″ video installation at Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Warsaw with The Klezmatics Group;
 2013 - ″Looming Fire - Stories from The Dutch East Indies 1900-1940″ installation. at EYE Netherlands Filmmuseum Amsterdam the
 German Unity @ Balaton - Deutsche Einheit am Balaton – Die private Geschichte der deutsch-deutschen Einheit • media installation with Gusztav Hamos • Collegium Hungaricum Berlin • 2009 • Dortmund • 2010 • Vaszary Villa - Balatonfüred/Hungary • 2010 
 Col Tempo - The W. Project • installation • 53rd Venice Biennale • Hungarian Pavilion • curator András Rényi •  • 2009 •
 Black Hole • Performance, with Tamás Tóth bass guitar • 1984
 Case of My Room, The • video installation • 1994
 Chlorophyll • performance with L. Lugo Lugosi • 1986
 Danube Exodus, The • installation • 2002 
 Der Kaiser auf dem Spaziergang • video installation • Light and Image • Aegina • 1996
 Dixi & Pixi • video performance with Dixi, Group 180, L. Lugo Lugosi • 1982
 Dream Inventory • installation • 1995
 Free Fall • Oratorio • 1997
 Educational Cinema • installation • 2005
 Hung Aryan, The • Video Installation • 1997
 Hungarian Totem • installation • 1995 
 Hungarian Video Kitchen Art • video installation • 1991
 INAUGURATION • video performance • 1978
 Monomotapa & The Game (the "Kempelen" installation video - with György Jovánovics • 2007) Kunsthalle Budapest, ZKM-Karlsruhe
 New York - BUDAPEST • paintings-photos with L.Lugó Lugosi • 1984
 Paintings & photographs • One man show - Fotohof Salzburg • 1987
 Pig paintings • paintings • 1985
 Pre Morgue • video installation • 1993
 Private Exits • performance with Szemzõ • 1985
 Rembrandt Morphs • installation • 2006
 Saloon, and Then! • installation • 1997
 SIGHT • photo installation • 2004
 Snapshot from the Island • performance with Tibor Szemző • 1984
 Stanley & Livingston • performance • 1979
 Thee á' El Greco • video Installation • 1991
 Two Nests and Other Things • video installation • 1991
 Visit, The • installation • 2004
 Work Desk • video performance and installation with Tibor Szemzõ • 1985

受賞歴 
 • 2020 	Dragon of Dragons Award • Krakow Film Foundation, Krakow
 2009 	I am von Höfler • Hungarian Film Critics Special Award
 2008 	Own Death • Best Experimental Film Prize, 39th Hungarian Film Festival, Budapest
 2008 	I am von Höfler • Creative Documentary Film Prize, 39th Hungarian Film Festival, Budapest
 2007 	Erasmus Prize • Praemium Erasmianum Foundation, Amsterdam
 2006 	El perro negro • Documentary Film Grand Prize, 37th Hungarian Film Festival, Budapest
 2005 	El perro negro • The Maysles Brothers Documentary Film Grand Prize, Denver International Film Festival, USA
 2005 	El perro negro • Feature Length Documentary, Grand Prize, Tribeca International Film Festival, New York
 2001 	A Bibó Reader • Official selection Quinzaine des Réalisateurs, Cannes Film Festival, France
 2001 	A Bibó Reader • Best Director Prize of Short & Experimental Film, 33rd Hungarian Film Festival, Budapest
 2000 	Angelos' Film • Documentário Longa Grand Prize, XI Encotros Internacionalis De Cinema Documental, Portugal
 1999 	The Maelstrom • Grand Prize, Out of That Darkness International Film Competition, London
 1999 	Angelos' Film • Documentary Golden Gate Award, the Golden Spire, San Francisco International Film Festival, USA
 1999 	The Maelstrom • The Best Documentary Film Award, Jerusalem International Film Festival, Israel
 1999 	The Danube Exodus • Silver Dragon prix and FIPRESCI prize, Kraków Int. Doc. & Short Film Festival, Poland
 1999 	The Danube Exodus • Documentary Film Grand Prize, 30th Hungarian Film Festival, Budapest
 1998 	The Balázs Béla Film Award, Hungarian Republic, Budapest
 1999 	Free Fall • The Best Documentary-Fiction and the Best Film Music Prize, Hungarian Film Critics Prize, Budapest
 1997 	Free Fall • PRIX EUROPA, Best Non-Fiction Program of the Year, Berlin  
 1997 	Free Fall • Grand Prize & CNC "Image de la culture" special award, Marseilles International Document Film Festival, France
 1997 	Free Fall • Short & Experimental Film, Grand Prize, Budapest 28th Hungarian Film Festival, Budapest
 1995 	Meanwhile Somewhere • "Lattücht" Prize Dokument, ART 95 Festival, Neubrandenburg, Germany
 1994 	Wittgenstein Tractatus • Grand Prize, Montecattini, Terme, Italy
 1993 	Culture Shavings • St. Germaine de Geneva Prize, 5th Semaine Internationale de Video, Switzerland
 1993 	Wittgenstein Tractatus • Video Grand Prize, VIPER Film & Video Festival, Lucerne, Switzerland
 1993 	Wittgenstein Tractatus • Sound Base Arts Video Festival, Grand Prize, Wroclaw, Poland
 1992 	The Private Hungary series • Best Hungarian Documentary Film Prize, Hungarian Film Critics, Budapest
 1991 	Dusi and Jenő • Grand Prix, European Document Film Biennial, Marseilles, France
 1990 	The Bartos Family • Grand Prize, World Wide Video Festival, The Hague, Holland

公的コレクションでの創作活動 

 Museum of Fine Art Budapest · Modern Collection·
 Australian Center for the Moving Image (ACMI) CINEMEDIA, Melbourne
 C3 Media Art Center, Budapest
 Centre National du Cinématographe, Paris
 Centre Pompidou & Musée d'Art Moderne, Paris
 Getty Museum, Special Collection, Los Angeles
 Harvard College Library, Cambridge, Massachusetts USA
 Haus der Dokumentarfilm collection, Stuttgart
 Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest
 KIASMA Contemporary Art Museum, Helsinki
 Ludwig Contemporary Art Museum, LUMU, Budapest
 Moffitt Library UC Berkeley, California USA
 MOMA, Film and Video collection, New York
 Montreal Cinematheque, Permanent Collection
 Museum of Fine Arts, 20th century Collection, Budapest
 Nederland Filmmuseum, Amsterdam
 New York University, Bobst Library NYU N.Y. USA
 Open Society Archive, CEU, Budapest
 Pacific Film Archives, Berkeley CA USA
 Samlung Oppenheim, Bonn
 Stanford University Library, Green Library, USA
 UIAH Helsinki University Art Department collection
 University of Southern California Film School - Annenberg Center for Communications, Los Angeles
 Yad Vashem, The Visual Center, Jerusalem
 Zentrum für Medien Kunst, ZKM collection, Karlsruhe

二次文学 
*Cinema’s Alchemist. The Films of Péter Forgács, ed. by Bill Nichols and Michael Renov, Minneapolis, Minn.[etc.] : University of Minnesota Press, 2011