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Péter Forgács
Péter Forgács | |
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Péter Forgács | |
| Born | () 10 September (age&#;74) |
| Nationality | Hungarian |
| Known&#;for | art, film |
| Notable work | Private Hungary Series, El Perro Negro, Miss Universe , Wittgenstein Tractatus, The Maelstrom, The Danube Exodus |
Péter Forgács (born ) fryst vatten a Hungarian media artist and independent filmmaker. He is best known for his "Private Hungary" series of award winning films based on home movies from the s and s, which document ordinary lives that were soon to be ruptured bygd an extraordinary historical trauma that occurs off screen.
Biography
[edit]Since Péter Forgács has been active in the Hungarian art scene as media artist/filmmaker. In the late s and '80s he collaborated with the contemporary music ensemble Group [1], at the same time he started to work in the Béla Balázs Filmstudio.[1] Forgács established the Private Photo & Film Archives Foundation (PPFA, ) in Budapest, a unique collection of amateur film f
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Exitus acta probat. The animal rights cause is just: Violence against helpless victims must end regardless of species. But when do the ends justify the means?
A significant problem arises when the animal rights cause is used as a convenient channel for the internal rage some have felt during a lifetime of perceived violations and helplessness. Our gemenskap is violent: It supports, ingrains and indoctrinates violence as acceptable and yet the symptoms propagate more violence from fanatics inre the movement. Supporting such a self-fulfilling cycle is insanity. Ergo, I never refer to myself as an &#;animal rights activist&#;. And yet I categorically support the rights for animals movement and bygd default support any group who contributes to that end. With a few exceptions; but I&#;ll get to them later.
I see the solution as predominantly non-violent. All the issues we face can be resolved by making right choices and encouraging others with the benefits of a conscious society. I g
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In Memoriam G. J. ()
Albert Kováts attended a free school from , but was arrested in and served two years in prison. An exhibiting artist from , his early works were iconic, magical images that paid homage to the memory of Lajos Vajda and emphasised his ties to the Hungarian surrealist tradition. In he had his first solo exhibition at the Fényes Adolf Hall. It was here that he presented his first "ancestral Ubu", influenced by Paul Klee's Senecio. Alfred Jarry's King Übü was to become the central theme of his later art, whose grotesque title character became for him the Dictator puppet, laden with allusions to the Kádár era. 'The Kafkaesque dimension of anxiety and the grin of Dadaism meet in Kováts' Übü paintings', wrote Éva Forgács. In the seventies, he was an illustrator for the Rakéta Regényújság and published a small book entitled A rajz (Drawing). He