ReFocus: The Films of Antoinetta Angelidi
Sotiris Petridis editor Penny Bouska editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Edinburgh University Press
Published:13th Dec '22
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Antoinetta Angelidi directed four full-length fiction films: Idées Fixes / Dies Irae (1977), Topos (1985), The Hours: A Square Film (1995) and Thief or Reality (2001), which have been screened at international film festivals and contemporary art museums. Angelidi’s work has become synonymous with Greek Experimental Cinema, while her films and her theoretical writings have been the subject of numerous film courses, critical essays and retrospectives. The inversion and juxtaposition of codes, as well as the dream-mechanism and the uncanny, comprise her main creative strategies. The complexity of cinematic heterogeneity and the narrative multiplicity of different filmic elements which characterize her work are examined in depth in this edited collection dedicated to Antoinetta Angelidi’s oeuvre.
This insightful and thorough collection of essays introduces the iconoclastic work of feminist experimental filmmaker Antoinetta Angelidi to the Anglophone world. Greek weird wave fans will discover a cinematic precursor. A very welcome contribution to the history of Greek and avant-garde cinema. -- Lydia Papadimitriou, Liverpool John Moores University
This is a long overdue tribute to one of contemporary Greece’s most ambitious, complex and refined cinematographers. Antoinetta Angelidi’s experimental and poetic films have been overlooked and somehow ignored due to the density of their vision, complexity of their visual optics and unique formal abstraction of their structure. We can now explore her films from various perspectives and incorporate them within the global poetic cinema alongside Maya Derren, Peggy Ahwesh, Agnes Varda, and the early David Lynch. The book reveals one of the most distinctive and manifold filmmakers of cinéma pur, whose works reimagine and recalibrate the realm of cinematic visuality. -- Vrasidas Karalis, University of Sydney
ISBN: 9781474493703
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256 pages