Rea Wallden
Filmmaker and film theorist Rea WALLDÉN (Greece) studied architecture and holds a Ph.D. in philosophy. As an Assistant Professor at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, her research focusses on film and media theory, avant-garde and experimental cinema, film education and the modernisation of education. Her approach is feminist, semiotic and epistemological. She is the co-writer of Antoinetta Angelidi’s Thief or Reality (2001), Obsessive Hours at the Tops of Reality (2022), selected for IFFR 2024, is an intimate confession about Angelidi’s life and work.
Filmography
Soles Ideas (2000, short), Broken Anthem (2002, short), Noon Hour (2006, short), Knot – Not – Knot (2007, short, co-dir), 121280 Ritual (2008, short, co-dir), Obsessive Hours at the Topos of Reality (2022, doc)
Rea Wallden op IFFR
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Obsessive Hours at the Topos of Reality
Rea Wallden | 88' | Greece | International premiere
Rea Wallden invites her mother, feminist avant-garde beacon Antoinetta Angelidi for an intimate confession. -
Topos
Antoinetta Angelidi | 76' | Greece | None
There’s little in cinema that explores Western art in a similar critical style to Topos. -
121280 Ritual
Antoinetta Angelidi | 16' | Greece | None
Pregnancy becomes ritual in Antoinetta Angelidi’s film of her son’s birth, finished 28 years later.