Veruschka “Vera” Bódy Baksa-Soós (1952)
Hungary

"Veruschka “Vera” Bódy, born Baksa-Soós, (1952 in Budapest) is a Hungarian filmmaker and author and co-founder of the video art magazine “Infermental”.

From 1970 to 1976 she studied history, philosophy, sinology and art in what was then West Germany and was then a research assistant at the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf until 1980.[1]

In 1980 she married the Hungarian filmmaker Gábor Bódy, with whom she founded the first video art magazine “Infermental” published on video cassettes in the same year. Their children, Zita and Caspar-Maria Zoltan Leopard, come from the marriage. In 1983, she appeared in the film “Kutya éji dala”, which her husband directed and co-wrote the screenplay.

After her husband's early death in 1985, she took over the overall coordination of "Infermental" and has published several books on the subject of video art since 1986, including on video. Since 1986 she has been video commissioner at the Oberhausen International Short Film Festival. Since 2000 she has directed the Moholy Nagy Gallery in the Balassi Institute of the Hungaricum of the Hungarian Embassy in Berlin."

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Work :

• INFERMENTAL (1980)