Overview

Antoinetta Angelidi directed four full-length fiction films: Idees 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.

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Author:   Penny Bouska (Adjunct Professor of Film Direction, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) ,  Sotiris Petridis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
Publisher:   Edinburgh University Press
Imprint:   Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:  

9781474493703

ISBN 10:   147449370
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   13 December 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Figures Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Prolegomenon - Penny Bouska Part 1: Feminism and the Avant-Garde 1. Weird Mothers: The Feminist Uncanniness of Antoinetta Angelidi’s Topos - Rea Walldén 2. ""Every Element in a Film Narrates"": The Complex Language of Heterogeneity in Idées Fixes/Dies Irae as a (Feminist) Critique to the Practice of Methodological Categorisation in Avant-Garde Film History - Fil Ieropoulos Part 2: Concepts and Interpretations 3. Thief or Reality: Visual Dialectics on Death Instincts - Penny Bouska 4. Childhood, Desire and identity in The Hours - Christina Adamou 5. Erased Ghost: The deriddean spectrality of Angelidi’s signs in Ιdées Fixes / Dies Irae - Ioannis Mazarakis 6. The cinematic sublime in Antoinetta Angelidi’s Thief or Reality - Evdokia Stefanopoulou Part 3: Means and Media 7. From orchestrated noise to elaborated silence: The audiovisuality of Antoinetta Angelidi’s films - Electra Venaki 8. Dreyer, Magritte and Other Obsessions: Figural Invention in Antoinetta Angelidi’s Idées Fixes Dies Irae - Variations on the Same Theme - Kyriakos Dionysopoulos 9. Antoinetta Angelidi: The Visual Gaze - Calliope (Pepy) Rigopoulou Interview with Antoinetta Angelidi Giving Birth to Her Films: Wandering with Antoinetta Angelidi - Rea Walldén Appendix: Visual material selected by Antoinetta Angelidi

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"

Author Information

Penny Bouska is an Adjunct Professor at the School of Film at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Her doctoral thesis, The Uncanny: a psychoanalytical study in cinema (2016), awarded by Greek State Scholarship Foundation (IKY), was made under the supervision of Antoinetta Angelidi. Her research areas include interdisciplinary studies on cinema and theory of psychoanalysis, applied aesthetics and experimental cinema. She directed a long length film Common Ground (2016) which was screened at 57th international film festival of Thessaloniki. Sotiris Petridis is a Postdoc Researcher at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. He holds a Ph.D. in Film Studies (Aristotle University). His research interests are film and television genres, horror and slasher films, screenwriting theory and practice, audiovisual rights and copyright laws, viral marketing, and the new ways of film and television promotion. He is a member of the European Film Academy and the Hellenic Film Academy.

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