Own Death
Dying is a tough job, especially when one must urgently finish some galley proofs. Peter Nádás has evocated this brilliantly in his short novel, Own Death. And it now has an equally brilliant equivalent in the imagery Peter Forgács has designed for it. Not since Marguerite Duras' India Song has a collaboration between the literary and the cinematic been as successful as in Forgács’ film of the Nádás story. (Peter Delpeut)
Péter Forgács is a 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, which are often based on home movies from the 1920s-1980s that document the ordinary lives soon to be ruptured by an extraordinary, historical trauma occurring off-screen.