EL Perro Negro tells personal dramas, faults, faiths, illusions and desperation, the unseen side of an insane war. The workers self-government experiments, the multitude suffering of civilians, the schism of the divided country, the revolutionary illusions, murders and the systematic massacres orgies of Franco’s brutality changed once and for ever the universe of Unamuno, Lorca, Buñuel, Hernandez, Durruti, the royalists, and the falangists. The rise, the fall, the ideas, the final personal losses come near to our eyes. The unseen private films reveal the cruel and beautiful sides of the Spanish times, as a prelude of Word War II.

biografia

Péter Forgács (1950) media artists 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 ruptures 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. In 2007 Forgács was awarded with the most prestigious Dutch Erasmus Prize for his notable contribution to European culture. In 2009 he represented Hungary at the Venice Biennale, exhibiting the Col Tempo – The W. Project installation.

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