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The Films of Antoinetta Angelidi
Edited by Penny Bouska and Sotiris Petridis
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Book Presentation:
The first English-language book on the Greek Experimental Cinema director, Antoinetta Angelidi
Discusses diverse dimensions of Angelidi’s creativity, including installations and expos, as well as her innovative theories on cinema
Engages with new analytical and theoretical perspectives on Angelidi’s films as artistic airings of an interdisciplinary discourse between cinema, philosophy, psychoanalysis and theories of literature
Examines Antoinetta Angelidi's four full-length fiction films: Idées Fixes / Dies Irae (1977), Topos (1985), The Hours: A Square Film (1995) and Thief or Reality (2001)
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 œuvre.
Press Reviews:
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
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