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Gábor Bódy

Gábor Bódy

Actor, Director, Writer

Born August 30, 1946 in Budapest, Hungary

Died October 24, 1985

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Gábor Bódy (30 August 1946 – 24 October 1985) was a Hungarian film director, screenwriter, theoretic, and occasional actor. A pioneer of experimental filmmaking and film language, Bódy is one of the most important figures of Hungarian cinema.

Bódy was born in Budapest, in an urban middle-class family. He studied history and philosophy at Loránd Eötvös University and later filmmaking at the Academy for Theater and Film Arts. During his university days he became an influential member of the Béla Balázs Stúdió (BBS). He made his first film A Harmadik (The Third) (a documentary about students preparing an adaptation of Faust on stage) in 1971. He established various experimental and avantgarde projects at BBS including the Film Language Series in 1973 and the K/3 experimental film group in 1976, reshaping the postwar Hungarian avantgarde film's path.

In 1975 he completed his debut feature at BBS, which was also his graduation thesis film at the university. Amerikai Anzix (American Torso) won the Grand Prize for best new filmmaker at International Filmfestival Mannheim-Heidelberg and the Hungarian Film Critics prize for best first film. The film which depicts the lives of Hungarian 1848 Revolution veterans in the American Civil War features Bódy's experimentalism at the fullest. The whole film was re-edited using his own method called "light editing" in order to make it resemble a wracked silent film from the late 19th century.

His next feature Nárcisz és Psyché was the largest-scale Hungarian production of its era. This epic production based on Sándor Weöres's poetic work Psyché starred Patricia Adriani, Udo Kier and György Cserhalmi and exists in three versions: an original 210min two part version, a 136min version for foreign distribution and a 270min three part television version. In 1980 Bódy began to work on the first international video magazine INFERMENTAL and managed to publish the first of 10 issues (plus one special issue) while on a residency at DAAD Berliner Küunstlerprogram in 1982. The series published featured a range of guest editors and in total included work from over 1500 artists from 36 countries and was published up to 1991.

After many frustrated projects Bódy managed to complete what was to become his final feature film Kutya éji dala (Dog's Night Song). Bódy cast himself as the lead in this ambitious and influential feature which incorporated Super8 and video footage as well as a range of Hungarian underground punk bands (Galloping Coroners, Trabant) of the time in order to a film "deeply rooted in the fundamentals of today's reality."

In 1985 Bódy died under sketchy circumstances. A later published information (2001) hints his earlier collaboration (1973–1983) with the Hungarian Secret Police, the III/III. Authorities of the time (Hungary was then considered a 'satellite' country of the Soviet Union) stated that he had killed himself. His widow instead preferred a charge of murder against certain unidentified parties. No official investigation followed and Bódy's fate remains a mystery to this day.

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Filmography

Actor

5

Type

Year

Kinematográfus a videográfiáról Documentary1985Self

Videoplus Short Film1985Self

Átváltozás Documentary1984

Kutya éji dala Poster

Kutya éji dala Feature Film1983A pap

The Agitators Poster

The Agitators Feature Film1971Botos

Director

20

Type

Year

Dancing Eurynome Short Film1985

Infermental 3 Video1984

De occulta philosophia Poster

De occulta philosophia Feature Film1983

Hamlet TV Movie1983

Kutya éji dala Poster

Kutya éji dala Feature Film1983

Novalis - Walzer Feature Film1983

Der Daemon von Berlin Feature Film1982

Die Geschwister Feature Film1982

Infermental 1 Video1982

Mozgástanulmány: 1880-1980 Documentary1980

Narcissus and Psyche Poster

Narcissus and Psyche Feature Film1980

Krétakör TV Movie1979

Katonák TV Movie1978

Privát történelem Documentary1978

Aldrin Opera Short Film1976

Pszichokozmoszok Poster

Pszichokozmoszok Short Film1976

American Torso Poster

American Torso Feature Film1975

Four Bagatelles Poster

Four Bagatelles Short Film1975

Ifivezetök Documentary1972

A Harmadik Feature Film1971

Writer

11

Type

Year

De occulta philosophia Poster

De occulta philosophia Feature Film1983

Kutya éji dala Poster

Kutya éji dala Feature Film1983

Mozgástanulmány: 1880-1980 Documentary1980

Narcissus and Psyche Poster

Narcissus and Psyche Feature Film1980

Privát történelem Documentary1978

Öndivatbemutató Poster

Öndivatbemutató Short Film1976

American Torso Poster

American Torso Feature Film1975

The Legend About the Death and Resurrection of Two Young Men Poster

The Legend About the Death and Resurrection of Two Young Men Feature Film1972

A Harmadik Feature Film1971

Három lányok Poster

Három lányok Short Film1971

The Agitators Poster

The Agitators Feature Film1971

Editor

6

Type

Year

Kutya éji dala Poster

Kutya éji dala Feature Film1983

Der Daemon von Berlin Feature Film1982

Infermental 1 Video1982

Mozgástanulmány: 1880-1980 Documentary1980

Öndivatbemutató Poster

Öndivatbemutató Short Film1976

American Torso Poster

American Torso Feature Film1975

2nd Unit / Asst Director

5

Type

Year

The Legend About the Death and Resurrection of Two Young Men Poster

The Legend About the Death and Resurrection of Two Young Men Feature Film1972

Három lányok Poster

Három lányok Short Film1971

Scleger Ágnes Feature Film1971

The Agitators Poster

The Agitators Feature Film1971

Vissza a városba Feature Film1971

Cinematographer

4

Type

Year

Der Daemon von Berlin Feature Film1982

American Torso Poster

American Torso Feature Film1975

Four Bagatelles Poster

Four Bagatelles Short Film1975

A Harmadik Feature Film1971

Composer

1

Der Daemon von Berlin Feature Film1982

Special Effects

1

American Torso Poster

American Torso Feature Film1975

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