 Since 1976 Péter Forgács has been active in the Hungarian art scene as media artist/filmmaker.In the late 1970s and '80s he collaborated with the contemporary music ensemble Group 180 , at the same time he started to work in the Béla Balázs Filmstudio.Forgács established the Private Photo & Film Archives Foundation (PPFA, 1983) in Budapest, a unique collection of amateur film footage from the '920, and has made this material "the raw data" for his unique postmodern re-orchestrations of history.