Hitler’s plan was simple with most of the population of occupied East and Southern Europe, destroy or enslave them. In 1942 after the Wannsee Confe-rence the European Jew deadly destiny was decided as Final Solution. In Meanwhile Somewhere the intimate, the brutal, the happy, the rare or clandestine amateur shots of different European amateur home movies and clandestine shots counter point a Nazi ritual’s film, the miscegenation’s racist punishment of the two young lovers, the eighteen year old German boy, George-Gerhard and the seventeen year old Polish girl, Marie in occupied Poland, Scinawa Nyska village, 1940. This public punishment film document is the rondo pulse through out the piece. Mosaics of suggestive different family’s images stories counter point the sadist shaving: a National Socialist performance lesson to the children of the German-Polish village. Meanwhile Somewhere’s elegy accompanied by Tibor Szemzõ’s visionary music.

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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