6ème Festival
Signes de Nuit
Selection
de la Video Art hongroise
Fondation Suisse / Cité
universitaire
7k,
bd. Jourdan
75014 Paris
Samedi 5 April 2008
18 h 10
De
Occulta Philosophia , de Gábor Bódy * (1946-1985)
(Hongrie - Hungary / 1983 / DV / 0:13:00)
Eurynome tánca, de Gábor Bódy (Hongrie -
Hungary / 1985 / DV / 0:03:00)
Walzer , de Gábor Bódy (Hongrie / 1985 / DV / 0:03:00)
OCD (brain), de Tamás Komoróczky** (1963-) (Hongrie
- Hungary / 2001 / DV / 0:01:00)
OCD (bonus), de Tamás Komoróczky (Hongrie - Hungary
/ 2001 / DV / 0:03:00)
NataSsa, dHajnal Németh (1972-) (Hongrie - Hungary
/ 2000 / DV / 0:01:30)
Bar24, Hajnal Németh (Hongrie - Hungary / 2003 / DV /
0:04:00)
Gogo 01, Hajnal Németh (Hongrie - Hungary / 2004 / DV
/ 0:05:00)
Do You Know My Method?, de János Sugár *** (1958-)
(Hongrie - Hungary / 2002 / DV / 0:08:00)
Rever, Szabolcs KissPál (1967-) (Hongrie - Hungary / 2001
/ DV / 0:03:00)
Edging, Szabolcs KissPál (Hongrie - Hungary / 2003 / DV
/ 0:03:00)
The garden of the blind, Szabolcs KissPál (Hongrie - Hungary
/ 2005 / DV / 0:03:45)
Dont help me, Julia Vécsei (Hongrie - Hungary /
2002 / Flash-application / 0:05:00)
Home Video, dÁdám Lendvai (Hongrie - Hungary
/ 2000 / DV / 0:05:00)
Layers, dÁdám Lendvai (Hongrie - Hungary
/ 2005 / DV / 0:05:00)
*
Gábor Bódy (19461985)
Bódy
is one of the best known Hungarian filmdirectors in an international
context. In 1972 he took his degree in philosophy and was then admitted
to the Academy of Theatre and Film Art in Budapest and the same year
made his first experimental film. From 1975 onwards his films received
him international recognition including several festival prizes for
his feature films, which like Narcissus and Psyche (1980) and The Dogs
Night Song (1983). Bódy lived mostly abroad from 1982 onwards,
mainly in West Berlin. He understood the significance of video art from
the early 1980s he became a leading figure on the international videoart
scene. He was the founder of Infermental, a video art magazine on VHS
tapes. Besides making feature films he kept producing video works and
one of his aims was to produce philoliro mithoclips.
A Triptych consisting of three three-minute tapes that expresses three
different aspects of Bódy's artistic aspirations.
Philo-Clip is inspired by De Occulta Philosophia, a magic manual
written by Agrippa von Nettesheim, the 15th century occult adept. Bódy
depicts an outline of the relations of the human body which is combined
with elliptical light signals that pulsate and are driven by synthetic
bursts of sound. A figure appears. The alchemist, who was once von Nettesheim,
now finds his expression in and through Bódy.
Mytho-Clip Dancing Eurynome (1983). Mytho-Clip is dedicated
to the Greek Goddess Eurynome, the child of Oceanus and Tethys. She
was the mother of the Graces and of the rivergod Aesopus. Eurynome dances
on water - and to the music of der Plan. Astrological symbols
(an egg, a bird and the suchlike) are added to the image of her mythical
dance. In Mytho-Clip (as in the other two clips), Bódy exploits
video's considerable potential to transform the image.
Lyric-Clip Walzer. There is also dancing in this tape
but this time it's about the lyric dance of youth and is depicted by
Bódy in an unconventional way. Walzer is a poem written
by Novalis, the German romantic poet (1772-1801) to mark the premature
death of his fiancée Sophie von Kühn. The text of Walzer
is recited and appears in a spiral - the spiral of life? Lyric-Clip
reflects the transience of youth as borne out by the macabre, dancing
skeleton that appears on screen.
**
Tamás Komoróczky (1963-)
Komoróczky studied painting at the Hungarian Academy of Fine
Arts in Budapest and was a member of the Ujlak Group (Újlak csoport,
1989 96), the most important group of the late 1980s, in which
young visual artists worked intensly together. Tamás Komoróczky
has always had a sensitive, intellectual, but very diverse and energetic
body of work and activity. Early in his career he mainly made installation
art, and since the 1990s he has been involved in the Budapest techno
scene, using computer technology and working with digital video. He
tends to present an absurd narrative in his video works and has a strong,
intensive graphic language, which translates into making rolls of digital
prints and using them as wallpaper. In 2001, together with Antal Lakner,
he represented Hungary at the 48th Venice Biennale with the show Social
Intercourse
***
Janós Sugár (1958-)
Sugár
studied in the Department of Sculpture at the Hungarian Academy of Fine
Arts in Budapest (1979-84) and worked with the Indigo group from 1980-86.
His work includes installations and performances, as well as film and
video. He has been teaching art and media theory in the Intermedia Department
of the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts since 1990, and has exhibited
widely throughout Europe including at Documenta 9, Kassel (1992), Manifesta
I, Rotterdam (1996) He completed an Artslink residency at the Cleveland
Institute of Art in 1994, and fellowships at Experimental Intermedia,
New York (1988 and 1999). His films were screened at the Anthology Film
Archive in New York in 1998.
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