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. It borrows its title and the featured illustrations from Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim’s (1486–1535) De occulta philosophia libri III, published in Cologne. The stream of illustrations is interrupted by images of a room permeated by laser beams. We see the shadow of a man moving across the room. The work’s most important feature is that the image and sound streams were “edited” simultaneously, based on a computer program developed beforehand. To be more precise, the film’s creators were interested in the unpredictable outcome brought about by the program. Bódy employed experimental filmic methodology in both his feature-length and short films. He also wrote extensively on film theory. The video’s computerized editing was a pioneering procedure at the time and, as Bódy writes, it was cinema’s first chance to process visual and sound elements using a “code-score” written in advance. De Occulta Philosophia has at least three known variants; its shorter, three-minute version is an innovative reconsideration of genres, a so-called “philo-clip” (philosophical clip), part of the “philo – mytho – lyric clips” trilogy. KÜ