Excerpts from Peter Forgacs’s recent production Picturesque Epochs (Private Hungary 18) and from Gabor Body’s iconic video-art magazine Infermental 3 (1984) feature family movies and experimentations by underground artists, showing how filmmakers in Hungary engaged with the camera to record personal memories or to create innovative visual media when the country, east of the Iron Curtain, was aligned with the Soviet Union.

Following the screenings, Forgacs will be present for a Q&A.

Picturesque Epochs (Private Hungary 18)

Hungary, 2016, 45 min. (excerpts), Hungarian with English subtitles

The tumultuous twentieth-century Hungarian history seen through the camera of painter Mária Gánóczy

Infermental 3

Hungary, 1984, 45 min. (excerpts)

Experimental shorts from the first video-art magazine

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This screening complements the exhibition Promote, Tolerate, Ban: Art and Culture in Cold War Hungary, a collaboration with the Getty Research Institute that is on view at the Wende Museum in Culver City from May 20 to August 26, 2018.