Miklos Bandy was a German-Hungarian filmmaker and writer active in Europe during the 1920s. Although his name is mainly associated with the experimental short film Hände (1928), his work also extended into film criticism and theory. He wrote for avant-garde journals such as Schémas, edited by Germaine Dulac, where he addressed topics related to abstract and experimental cinema, including an early analysis of Viking Eggeling’s Symphonie Diagonale, showing a deep interest in non-narrative cinematic forms.
His intellectual profile places him within the European avant-garde film circles, where cinematic language was being explored in formal and aesthetic terms. Although little is known about other films he may have directed or produced, his involvement in key debates of the time reveals a figure committed to the search for new expressive possibilities in cinema.
The lack of later documentation has contributed to the enigmatic nature of Bandy, whose work—apart from Hände—has largely been forgotten. Nevertheless, his brief but significant presence in the history of European experimental film makes him a figure of interest for those studying the early cinematic avant-gardes.
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HANDE: DAS LEBEN UND DIE LIEBE EINES ZARTLICHEN GESCHLECHTS
1926-1928 / 35mm / b&w / sound / single screen / 13' 32 / 60 € distribution: Digital file on server |