Polityczny wymiar przestrzeni prywatnej i publicznej w filmach Pétera Forgácsa.
The political dimension of the private and public space in the films of Péter Forgács

Summary/Abstract: The article is an attempt to grasp the mechanisms that organise the experimental method of work of the Hungarian director Péter Forgács that relies on the use of archival home film footage. The author reveals the way the director uses private film material in the found footage work in its social and political dimensions. She refers to Jay Leyda’s concept of compilation film, Marcel Duchamp’s and the Fluxus group’s ready-made category, as well as the concept of performative documentary style attributed to Péter Forgács’s work in the classification proposed by Bill Nichols in the "Introduction to Documentary". Using the example of Péter Forgács’s film "The Maelstrom: A Family Chronicle" (1997), the author presents the mechanisms of memory the director employs that lead the audience to understand the tragic dimension of European history of the twentieth century, and in particular the Holocaust as a private and personal experience.

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