Gábor Bódy

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Gábor Bódy (born August 30, 1946 in Budapest , † October 24, 1985 there ) was a Hungarian director, screenwriter and actor. He lived and worked in Hungary and West Germany.

Life

Gábor Bódy studied history and philosophy between 1964 and 1971 . Immediately afterwards he studied film and television directing in his hometown Budapest until 1975. During this time he was involved in the founding of the experimental group K3 of the Budapest Béla Balázs studio for artistic film in 1973 , for which he subsequently acted as an organizer. Also since 1973 (until 1981) he provided information to the Hungarian State Security Service, although this only became known in 1999.

Bódy has written several scripts since the early 1970s and often directed them himself. In some of his films he also appears as an actor. From 1977 he dealt with the subject of video art and is considered one of the pioneers in this field.

In 1980 he and others founded the first video art magazine, Infermental , to be published on video cassettes . Also in 1980 he married Veruschka "Vera" Bódy , née Baksa-Soós . The son Caspar-Maria Zoltan Leopard emerged from the marriage. 1979–1980 there was also Nárcisz és Psyché , which is seen as his most important film.

Between 1982 and 1984 he lectured at the German Film and Television Academy in Berlin .

Bódy saw himself in his work as a mediator between East and West during the Cold War . The official cause of death was given by the authorities in 1985 as suicide. However, this has been questioned by many due to some inconsistencies.

His works are shown in exhibitions around the world to this day. Veruschka "Vera" Bódy continued the coordination of Infermental until 1990. At the moment, this compendium of video art from the 1980s is on permanent loan at the Center for Art and Media Technology in Karlsruhe.

Awards

In 1976 Bódy was awarded the Grand Prize for his film Amerikai Anzix (1975) at the Mannheim-Heidelberg International Film Festival and the Ernest Artaria Award at the Locarno International Film Festival in 1981 for Nárcisz és Psyché (1980) and the Special Prize for Budapest Film Festival Director and awarded the CIDALC Prize at the Festival Internacional de Cinema da Figueira da Foz . In 1986, Bódy was posthumously awarded the FIPRESCI Prize at the Berlinale for his life's work .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ film sheet of the German Film Archive to Gábor Bódy film The Night Song of the dog retrieved, Page 2 (30), November 1st of 2019.
  2. ↑ Gábor Bódy in Medienkunstnetz , accessed June 24, 2007.
  3. ↑ Newsletter of the Hungarian Film Union (Magyar Filmunió) January 2004 (PDF; 1.4 MB) page 9, accessed March 4, 2011.
personal data
SURNAME Bódy, Gábor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian director, screenwriter and actor
DATE OF BIRTH August 30, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest
DATE OF DEATH October 24, 1985
Place of death Budapest