Biography
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 18…
Directed
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Narcissus and Psyche (1980) — Director
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American Torso (1975) — Director
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Dog's Night Song (1983) — Director
- Four Bagatelles (1975) — Director
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Latest Fashion ('78 Spring-Summer) (1978) — Director
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The Occult Philosophy (1983) — Director
- Katonák (1978) — Director
- Novalis - Walzer (1983) — Director
- The Hostage (1982) — Director
- Dancing Eurynome (1985) — Director
- Aldrin Opera (1976) — Director
- Siblings (1982) — Director
- Either/Or In Chinatown (1984) — Director
- Theory of Cosmetics (1985) — Director
- A harmadik (1971) — Director
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Der Dämon in Berlin (1982) — Director
- Private History (1978) — Director
- Conversation Between East and West (1978) — Director
- Egy bagatell (1972) — Director
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A Statement about Jealousy (1972) — Director
