121280 Ritual
Pregnancy becomes ritual in Antoinetta Angelidi’s film of her son’s birth, finished 28 years later.
16'
Greece
IFFR 2024
During the long days and nights of Covid-19, filmmaker and theoretician Rea Wallden invited her mother, feminist avant-garde beacon Antoinetta Angelidi, to be part of a film about her art and thoughts. Of course, it was not a normal interview affair – for that would go against the aesthetic principles Angelidi had long-established for herself. Angelidi has been a filmmaker for more than half a century: she thinks in cinematographic installations and performances and so, Wallden offered her the necessary spaces for that.
Very often when talking, Angelidi seems to float in an ocean of darkness. Obsessive Hours at the Topos of Reality feels like an invocation or incantation of a past and the ideas that grew from it. The future is unknown but it still needs the nourishments that these first thoughts provide.
What becomes present is the portrait of a most unusual artist who was a path-breaker on at least two fronts at the same time. At home in Greece Antoinetta Angelidi is a key figure of the nation's founding group of moving image artists and in the world, she was one of many female directors trying to define a feminist film language. And she achieved it all!
– Olaf Möller
IFFR 2024
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16'
Greece
IFFR 2024
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27'
Colombia
IFFR 2024
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53'
Switzerland
IFFR 2024