Négy Bagatell
Four Bagatelles

Description

Four Bagatelles by Gábor Bódy from 1975 can be considered the first Hungarian video work (Source, website, C3).

This video is linked to a conference by the artist entitled Infinite Mirror-Tube and is part of a more global filmic research of experimentation with the image and a language which is intended to be non-narrative.

Additional Informations

Gábor Bódy gave a talk at the Tihany Semiotics Congress in Tihany in Hungary entitled "Infinite Mirror-Tube" which is related to Four Bagatelles, and gave a more detailed version of it entitled Infinite Image and Reflection Total Expanded Cinema at the Edinburgh Film Festival in 1978 .

This film was produced at Béla Balázs Studio and it is indicated on the film credits sheet and at the opening of the film as part of a collection "filmnyelvi sorozat" ("film language series"), 1972-75.
This film is based on a written project entitled Removings (a dance film). Director: Gábor Bódy, Krisztina Chatel, Ilona Keserü, Kati Macskássy, János Tóth, László Vidovszky. BBS 1973.
Contributors:
Backgroung Photography: György Martin, Zsolt Haraszti, Gábor Bódy
Special Effects: Ottmár Bayer, Péter Tímár
Dance: Krisztina Chatel
(Source, website, Monoskop)

View the work on Monoskop's website

Publications and Periodicals which reference the work

- László Beke & Miklós Peternák (eds.), Gábor Bódy, 1946-1985, A presentation of his work, Mucsarnok, Budapest, 1987.

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