Compilation: Philo-Mytho-Lyric Clips

Germany 1985, video, col, sound, 9:00 min

realized by:

Gabor Body

available copies:

The Netherlands Media Art Institute, Montevideo/Time Based Arts :

available for rent

LUX:

available for rent

synopsis: Montevideo online catalogue 2007

A Triptych consisting of three three-minute tapes that expresses three different aspects of Bódy's artistic aspirations. * Philo-Clip 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'. 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 Novalis '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 ref;ects the transience of youth as borne out by the macabre, dancing skeleton that appears on screen.

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