Gábor Bódy

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Kutya éji dala
6.2

Kutya éji dala

Nov 04, 1983

Kutya éji dala
1983 145 min 4 vues
A priest arrives in a village and give advice and comfort to different people. He meets a wheelchair-bound former representative of the Communist party, a woman who is dying of tuberculosis and an astronomer who sings in a punk band.
Drama
Agitátorok
6.7

Agitátorok

Feb 08, 1971

Agitátorok
1971 78 min 3 vues
After the World War I, enthusiastic young people found the intellectual group of Hungarian Communist Party. Their aim is to propagate the communist ideology to the people and get the workers on their side. They have fierce discussions on the new ideas, though their movement is not very successful. They clash with their opposition, attempt to lead people to the Red Army, but without success.
Comedy
Átváltozás
1

Átváltozás

Apr 23, 1984

Átváltozás
1984 285 min 1 vues
This documentary feature film is set in a two-storey villa, where three generations live together representing four different scales of values and views of life.
Documentary
Kutya éji dala
6.2

Kutya éji dala

Nov 04, 1983

Kutya éji dala
1983 145 min 4 vues
A priest arrives in a village and give advice and comfort to different people. He meets a wheelchair-bound former representative of the Communist party, a woman who is dying of tuberculosis and an astronomer who sings in a punk band.
Drama
Amerikai anzix
6.6

Amerikai anzix

Jan 01, 1975

Amerikai anzix
1975 96 min 8 vues
In the final days of the American Civil War, an emigre Hungarian military officer attempts to map the situation of the enemy. Many veterans of the 1848 War of Independence in Hungary fought on the northern side. Experienced Fiala, Boldogh who struggles with homesickness and the reckless Vereczky all experience their enforced emigration in different ways and news of impending peace elicits different reactions from them all.
Drama
Négy bagatell
7

Négy bagatell

Mar 08, 1975

Négy bagatell
1975 28 min 1 vues
Four part experimental film, with sequences concerning dance, Edweard Muybridge's studies of motion, and an addict discussing sobriety.
Agitátorok
6.7

Agitátorok

Feb 08, 1971

Agitátorok
1971 78 min 3 vues
After the World War I, enthusiastic young people found the intellectual group of Hungarian Communist Party. Their aim is to propagate the communist ideology to the people and get the workers on their side. They have fierce discussions on the new ideas, though their movement is not very successful. They clash with their opposition, attempt to lead people to the Red Army, but without success.
Comedy
Ez a divat
1

Ez a divat

Jan 01, 1978

Ez a divat
1978 14 min 1 vues
Fashion film directed by Gábor Bódy. Screened in retrospective at Alternative Film/Video Belgrade Festival 2014.
Novalis - Walzer
1

Novalis - Walzer

Jan 01, 1983

Novalis - Walzer
1983 3 min 1 vues
There is also dancing in this tape but this time it's about the lyric dance of youth and is depicted by Bódy in an unconventional way. Walzer is a poem written by Novalis, the German romantic poet (1772-1801) to mark the premature death of his fiancée Sophie von Kühn. The text of Walzer is recited and appears in a spiral - the spiral of life? Lyric-Clip reflects the transience of youth as borne out by the macabre, dancing skeleton that appears on screen.
Die Geisel
1

Die Geisel

Jan 01, 1982

Die Geisel
1982 22 min 1 vues
A video that deals with perspectives; that of a hostage, and that of the hostage takers. The video ends with a philosophical analogy of the capabilities of seeing through video through 2 or more sources.
De Occulta Philosophia
1

De Occulta Philosophia

Jan 01, 1983

De Occulta Philosophia
1983 2 min 1 vues
An attempt to visualize a secret knowledge about the nature of man —a philo-clip—, through the use of structures of dissociated geometry and laser beams, with direct references to the Renaissance, Leonardo da Vinci and the work of Agrippa von Nettesheim.
Animation
Eurynomé tánca
1

Eurynomé tánca

Jan 01, 1985

Eurynomé tánca
1985 4 min 1 vues
Dancing eurynome (Mytho-Clip) is dedicated to the Greek goddess Eurynome, the child of Oceanus and Tethys. She was the mother of the Graces and of the river-god Aesopus. Eurynome dances on water - and to the music of der Plan. Astrological symbols (an egg, a bird and the suchlike) are added to the image of her mythical dance. In Mytho-Clip (as in Philo-Clip and Lyric-Clip), Bódy exploits video's considerable potential to transform the image.
Music
Kutya éji dala
6.2

Kutya éji dala

Nov 04, 1983

Kutya éji dala
1983 145 min 4 vues
A priest arrives in a village and give advice and comfort to different people. He meets a wheelchair-bound former representative of the Communist party, a woman who is dying of tuberculosis and an astronomer who sings in a punk band.
Drama
Aldrin űropera
1

Aldrin űropera

Jan 01, 1976

Aldrin űropera
1976 5 min 1 vues
Experimental film by Gábor Bódy. A woman sings in German on the left as text flashes on a separate frame on the right-hand side of the screen.
Négy bagatell
7

Négy bagatell

Mar 08, 1975

Négy bagatell
1975 28 min 1 vues
Four part experimental film, with sequences concerning dance, Edweard Muybridge's studies of motion, and an addict discussing sobriety.
Amerikai anzix
6.6

Amerikai anzix

Jan 01, 1975

Amerikai anzix
1975 96 min 8 vues
In the final days of the American Civil War, an emigre Hungarian military officer attempts to map the situation of the enemy. Many veterans of the 1848 War of Independence in Hungary fought on the northern side. Experienced Fiala, Boldogh who struggles with homesickness and the reckless Vereczky all experience their enforced emigration in different ways and news of impending peace elicits different reactions from them all.
Drama
Either/Or In Chinatown
1

Either/Or In Chinatown

Jan 01, 1984

Either/Or In Chinatown
1984 38 min 1 vues
Either/Or in Chinatown was commissioned by Video Inn and shot in part at the Western Front during Bódy’s 1984 residency. Based on Danish philosopher Søren Kierkega’s Diary of a Seducer, Either/Or in Chinatown speaks to the impossibility of choice as it follows the narrator’s through days spent in attempts to attain the love of ‘Cordelia’.
Meztelen vagy
1

Meztelen vagy

May 12, 1972

Meztelen vagy
1972 93 min 1 vues
The director of Meztelen Vagy was imprisoned for many years during the latter part of the Stalin era and is known for his highly imagistic and symbolic storytelling techniques. This film tells its story in the same way, and at no point is the story made explicit. Images of love, death, suicide, violence and mutilation dominate.
Drama
He Saw Her Burning
1

He Saw Her Burning

Jan 01, 1983

He Saw Her Burning
1983 20 min 1 vues
He Saw Her Burning, which is based on a 1983 performance, is a provocative narrative collage, a surreal juxtaposition of two narrated texts. A man and a woman begin their respective tales: He saw a woman burst into flames on the street; she saw an American soldier go berserk and drive a tank into a crowd. Produced while Jonas was living in Berlin on an artist's fellowship, the disjunctive narratives are pervaded with a sense of cultural dislocation and alienation. The man and woman occupy separate narrative spaces as they tell their stories, which are intercut with a pastiche of word games, narrative reenactments, filmed sequences, isolated gestures and objects. Memory — elusive and ephemeral, personal and collective — is the catalyst for this complex work.
Privát történelem
1

Privát történelem

Jan 01, 1978

Privát történelem
1978 25 min 1 vues
The black and white short Private History (1978) by Gábor Bódy is made up of amateur recordings. So what would the presumably well-off people owning their own cameras direct the lens at before the Second World War? On the one hand, their own families, and on the other, their everyday lives, their pride-and-joy cars, Lake Balaton holidays, happily smiling family members. History, which slowly washes away this idyllic world as the rain effaces paint from paper, initially only appears as ‘background noise’, parts of newsreels and an occasional speech by Hitler. The pictures become more sombre as the age also grows darker: marching soldiers and columns of civilians wearing the yellow star pass in front of the camera. Péter Tímár reconstructed the audio on the basis of lip-reading, noises and rattles reflective of the period. This film is the forerunner to Péter Forgács’s landmark series Private Hungary.
Conversation Between East and West
1

Conversation Between East and West

Feb 08, 1978

Conversation Between East and West
1978 3 min 1 vues
The first real video work of Gábor Bódy is about a highly exciting psychological situation from the 1970s, the era of the iron curtain. Bódy and Marcel Odenbach, his friend from Cologne, communicate silently in front of the camera by blowing soap bubbles. The mood is very dramatic, yet the dramaturgy is rather simple. It is a pioneering work in the new narrative direction Bódy initiated.
Egy bagatell
1

Egy bagatell

Jun 12, 1972

Egy bagatell
1972 7 min 1 vues
Bódy Gábor made his experimental film-language series Négy bagatell (Four bagatelles) between 1972 and 1975. Egy bagatell (One bagatelle) is the third part of this series which is a unique experiment to show the film frame's meaning-altering nature. The etude can be divided into two parts. In the first part, we see the dance of a drunk man. The second shows a sociologist's lecture.
Öndivatbemutató
6.5

Öndivatbemutató

Jun 14, 1976

Öndivatbemutató
1976 14 min 4 vues
According to Peter Brook, all that is needed for an act of theatre to be engaged is for a man to walk across an empty space whilst someone else is watching him. Thus, an empty space becomes a bare stage. However, this raises countless questions about the relationship between reality, everyday presence and role-playing, something experimental filmmakers coming from the 1970s world of theatre dealt with in detail. Tibor Hajas explored the topic in a short experimental film made at BBS.
Drama
Öndivatbemutató
6.5

Öndivatbemutató

Jun 14, 1976

Öndivatbemutató
1976 14 min 4 vues
According to Peter Brook, all that is needed for an act of theatre to be engaged is for a man to walk across an empty space whilst someone else is watching him. Thus, an empty space becomes a bare stage. However, this raises countless questions about the relationship between reality, everyday presence and role-playing, something experimental filmmakers coming from the 1970s world of theatre dealt with in detail. Tibor Hajas explored the topic in a short experimental film made at BBS.
Drama
Agitátorok
6.7

Agitátorok

Feb 08, 1971

Agitátorok
1971 78 min 3 vues
After the World War I, enthusiastic young people found the intellectual group of Hungarian Communist Party. Their aim is to propagate the communist ideology to the people and get the workers on their side. They have fierce discussions on the new ideas, though their movement is not very successful. They clash with their opposition, attempt to lead people to the Red Army, but without success.
Comedy
Amerikai anzix
6.6

Amerikai anzix

Jan 01, 1975

Amerikai anzix
1975 96 min 8 vues
In the final days of the American Civil War, an emigre Hungarian military officer attempts to map the situation of the enemy. Many veterans of the 1848 War of Independence in Hungary fought on the northern side. Experienced Fiala, Boldogh who struggles with homesickness and the reckless Vereczky all experience their enforced emigration in different ways and news of impending peace elicits different reactions from them all.
Drama