Gábor Bódy Movies

  • 1980
    Narcissus and Psyche

    Narcissus and Psyche

    Narcissus and Psyche

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    Narcisus and Psyche is based on a novel by Sandor Weores which was adapted by Vilmos Csaplar and director Gabor Body for a feature-length film....

    Narcissus and Psyche
  • 1983
    Dog's Night Song

    Dog's Night Song

    Dog's Night Song

    6.21983HD

    A priest arrives in a village and give advice and comfort to different people. He meets a wheelchair-bound former representative of the Communist...

    Dog's Night Song
  • 1983
    The Occult Philosophy

    The Occult Philosophy

    The Occult Philosophy

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    An attempt to visualize a secret knowledge about the nature of man —a philo-clip—, through the use of structures of dissociated geometry...

    The Occult Philosophy
  • 1975
    American Torso

    American Torso

    American Torso

    6.61975HD

    The film depicts the lives of veterans of the 1848 Hungarian Revolution in the American Civil War, based in part on an Ambrose Bierce story. The...

    American Torso
  • 1972
    The Legend About the Death and Resurrection of Two Young Men

    The Legend About the Death and Resurrection of Two Young Men

    The Legend About the Death and Resurrection of Two Young Men

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    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...

    The Legend About the Death and Resurrection of Two Young Men
  • 1971
    The Agitators

    The Agitators

    The Agitators

    6.71971HD

    After the World War I, enthusiastic young people found the intellectual group of Hungarian Communist Party. Their aim is to propagate the communist...

    The Agitators
  • 1983
    He Saw Her Burning

    He Saw Her Burning

    He Saw Her Burning

    01983HD

    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...

    He Saw Her Burning
  • 1984
    Either/Or In Chinatown

    Either/Or In Chinatown

    Either/Or In Chinatown

    01984HD

    Either/Or in Chinatown was commissioned by Video Inn and shot in part at the Western Front during Bódy’s 1984 residency. Based on...

    Either/Or In Chinatown
  • 1978
    Private History

    Private History

    Private History

    01978HD

    The black and white short Private History (1978) by Gábor Bódy is made up of amateur recordings. So what would the presumably well-off...

    Private History
  • 1982
    The Hostage

    The Hostage

    The Hostage

    01982HD

    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...

    The Hostage
  • 1971
    A harmadik

    A harmadik

    A harmadik

    01971HD

    A harmadik
  • 1976
    Aldrin Opera

    Aldrin Opera

    Aldrin Opera

    01976HD

    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...

    Aldrin Opera
  • 1976
    Self-Fashion Show

    Self-Fashion Show

    Self-Fashion Show

    6.51976HD

    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...

    Self-Fashion Show
  • 1984
    Point of Departure

    Point of Departure

    Point of Departure

    01984HD

    This documentary feature film is set in a two-storey villa, where three generations live together representing four different scales of values and...

    Point of Departure
  • 1975
    Four Bagatelles

    Four Bagatelles

    Four Bagatelles

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    Four part experimental film, with sequences concerning dance, Edweard Muybridge's studies of motion, and an addict discussing sobriety.

    Four Bagatelles
  • 1978
    Conversation Between East and West

    Conversation Between East and West

    Conversation Between East and West

    01978HD

    The first real video work of Gábor Bódy is about a highly exciting psychological situation from the 1970s, the era of the iron curtain....

    Conversation Between East and West
  • 1972
    A Statement about Jealousy

    A Statement about Jealousy

    A Statement about Jealousy

    01972HD

    An early short film from Gábor Bódy.

    A Statement about Jealousy
  • 1972
    Egy bagatell

    Egy bagatell

    Egy bagatell

    01972HD

    Bódy Gábor made his experimental film-language series Négy bagatell (Four bagatelles) between 1972 and 1975. Egy bagatell (One...

    Egy bagatell
  • 1982
    Der Dämon in Berlin

    Der Dämon in Berlin

    Der Dämon in Berlin

    01982HD

    The classic Faustian tale transposed to the realm of the digital.

    Der Dämon in Berlin
  • 1985
    Dancing Eurynome

    Dancing Eurynome

    Dancing Eurynome

    01985HD

    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...

    Dancing Eurynome