with guest speaker Patricia Zimmermann

Hungarian filmmaker Peter Forgacs’ latest production is made entirely out of archival and home movie footage. Marci Tenczer, secretly in love with his cousin, Lisl Goldarbeiter, started to make films of her, her family and Vienna shortly after his arrival. In 1929, without telling anybody, he submitted her application to the Miss Austria beauty contest. This act would change the life of the modest Goldarbeiter family forever. “In the past twenty years, I have found out that old amateur films are the unconscious diaries of life, of history. These film diaries tell us something about what we can no longer touch or feel, and also show us the other side of the official history” (Péter Forgács).