Dusi & Jenő (Private Hungary 2)
Dusi és Jenő (Privát Magyarország 2)
Hungary
1988
45 Min
Black and White
English
Synopsis
With his 8mm camera, a secret film diary was shot between 1936 and 1966 by Jenő, who could have perhaps been the one of the best cameraman of his age, had he not worked until 1945 as the senior officer of General Mortgage Credit Bank. His wife Dusi is not as keen on film shooting as on their dachshund: she love it like as her child. The main actors of the Tabán spleen are Dusi and Jenő. But something else also plays the main role: the city itself, in snow, fog and rain, after the siege, with photography of sensual accuracy. A poetic film – accompanied by Szemző’s mesmerizing music suit – sets up a breathtaking memorial to the vanishing life style of the 1930’ Hungarian middle class. —forgacspeter.hu
Director
Péter Forgács
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.
Since the early 1990s Forgács’ video installations have been presented at museums and art galleries throughout Europe and America. His international debut came with The Bartos Family (1988). Since then he has received several international festival awards – in New York, Budapest, Lisbon, Marseilles, San Francisco and Berlin, where he won the Prix Europa for Free Fall film in 1997. Between 2000-2002 Forgács was artist in residence at The Getty Museum/Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, where he created The Danube Exodus: Rippling Currents of the River installation… read more
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