Screening the Past: Cinema's Alchemist
A review of the new book on the films of Peter Forgacs, edited by Bill Nichols and Michael Renov.
In this rich and detailed book about screen-artist Péter Forgács, various contributors call him by different names: artist-archivist, scribe, witness, poet, cinema alchemist. His body of work is so extensive, innovating across a diversity of mediums and forms, that the term filmmaker only partly suits him. Given the unstable and rapidly changing landscape of digital-documentary filmmaking, this latest Visible Evidence Series (#25) on Forgács and his work is very timely.
Published in: Screening the Past
By: Jeni Thornley
Story Date: 2013-01-29T00:00:00
By: Jeni Thornley
Story Date: 2013-01-29T00:00:00