Gábor Bódy was a filmmaker, born in Budapest in 1946. He studied philosophy and history at the Eötvös Loránd University (1964–1971) and later film and TV directing at the Academy of Drama and Film (1971-1975). He became a member of the Béla Balázs Studio in 1971. He founded INFERMENTAL, the world’s first VHS periodical, with his wife, Vera (Baksa-Soós) Bódy and others in 1980. In 1982, he received a DAAD Scholarship to work in Berlin and teach at the German Film and TV Academy (DFFB). He died on October 24, 1985 in Budapest.
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Conversation between East and West
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.
De Occulta Philosophia
The interconnection of philosophical and mythical themes is a recurring motif of Gábor Bódy’s work. De Occulta Philosophia is about magical wisdom and occult knowledge.
