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U.S. Premiere Screening: A Bibó Reader
The Getty screens Péter Forgács' latest film, A Bibó Reader, in which the artist uses found footage and original music by Tibor Szemzö to pay homage to the great Hungarian political thinker István Bibó (1911-1979), who served as minister of state in 1956 during the Hungarian revolution. A Bibó Reader screened earlier this year at the Cannes film festival.
Harold M. Williams Auditorium
Getty Center
September 5, 7:30 p.m.
Free Fall Oratorio
This multimedia project, based on the award-winning video Free Fall (1996-97)
by artist Péter Forgács and composer Tibor Szemzö, presents a moving
and intimate picture of the Hungarian Holocaust. Performing live against a backdrop of
moving images, vocalists from the Gordian Knot Company of Hungary chronicle the family
memories of amateur filmmaker and Holocaust survivor György Petö, whose home
movies form the basis of Free Fall. Tickets ($20/$15 students and seniors) are
available at the Information Desk of the J. Paul Getty Museum or by calling (310) 440-7300.
September 14, 8:00 p.m.
Harold M. Williams Auditorium
Getty Center
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István Bibó and his wife Boriska in 1940 or 1941, filmed by Bibó's brother-in-law. Still from A Bibó Reader by Péter Forgács, 2002. Digital Beta and 35 mm film, 69 min.
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Biography on Film
Panel discussion with Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker Mark Jonathan
Harris and artist Péter Forgács on their approach to biography in the
highly charged context of the Holocaust. Special guests include Michael Roth, president
of the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland; Michael Renov, professor of
critical studies in the School of Cinema-Television at the University of Southern
California; Robert Rosenstone, professor of history at the California Institute of
Technology; János Varga, head researcher, historian, and archivist at the
Hungarian National Film Archive; and panel moderator Marsha Kinder, director of the
Labyrinth Research Initiative on Interactive Narrative at the University of Southern
California Annenberg Center for Communication.
September 12, 7:00-9:00 p.m.
Museum Lecture Hall
Getty Center
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Past Exhibitions
