Femicides
Online Premiere 23.03.2022 on the Onassis Channel on YouTube | 19:00 UTC+2
How ready is Greek society to accept the term “femicide”? Why has there been a surge in the phenomenon in recent years? How can we envision a near future where every woman and femininity feels safe – at home, at work, and in society at large? “Society Uncensored 02” opens with an issue that is weighty, multi-dimensional, and pressing – one threaded through the ages, but only now being looked at collectively and directly so that it can be confronted.
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Eleni on Rhodes, Angeliki on Corfu, Erato on Lesvos, Konstantina in Makrinitsa, Caroline in Glyka Nera, Garyfallia on Folegandros, Anisa in Dafni, Monica in Kyparissia, Dora on Rhodes, Xevrie in Alexandroupolis, and many more women have been murdered in Greece in recent years because they were women. Femicide is a socio-historical phenomenon that can be traced through the centuries. It is the killing of women, girls, and femininities because of their gender, within the setting of patriarchal power. It is an act that seeks to exercise societal control over the bodies and desires of women, and to punish women. Such murders are committed by men characterized by toxic masculinity who believe they have power of life and death over women, and constitute the upper extreme of gendered violence.
Given the urgency of this issue, Onassis Stegi’s “Society Uncensored 02” series presents an edition on femicide proffering experiences and testimonials, presenting qualitative and quantitative data from Greece and other countries, documenting the inadequacies and poor practices of gendered violence response mechanisms, shedding light on the intersectionality of the issue, analyzing the structural causes and escalations of abuse, and underlining the role to be played by society and the state when it comes to combatting and preventing femicide.
With the aid of audio-visual materials, data gathered from international stakeholders (Le Monde, the European Observatory on Femicide), and information graphics, the participants share knowledge and viewpoints drawn from the realms of science, feminism, field intervention, and embodied experience, that also carry the charge of collective trauma and the dream of transformation, so that we might all feel safe and free.
Footage shot by Vania Turner during a feminist protest, 2022
The footage, courtesy of the filmmaker Vania Turner, is part of a feature documentary project she is working currently, along with Maria Sidiropoulou, on sexual abuse in Greece.
“De l’emprise au feminicide,” by Clémence Duneau, Solene Bureau, Faustine Vincent (“Le Monde”), 2021
French newspaper “Le Monde” has created a short documentary film on the urgent issue of femicides in France.
“Girlhood,” by Vania Turner & Maria Sidiropoulou, 2021
The short documentary film, an Onassis Culture production, follows three 17-year-old girls from an Athens neighborhood, in their coming of age during the pandemic and the lockdowns.
“Femicidio,” Nina Maria Paschalidou, 2022
In this documentary film, Nina Maria Paschalidou follows Laura Roveri, a survivor from a brutal murder attack by her ex-boyfriend, exploring the dark world of gender violence in Italy.
Participants
Nina Maria Paschalidou, Filmmaker, Producer
Xrysa Katsarini, Stand-up Comedian
Alexandra Psarakou, Garyfallia’s mother
Thalia Portokaloglou, Mental Health Coordinator, ‘Melissa Network’Yasaman Heydarpoor, Cultural Mediator, ‘Melissa Network’
An Onassis Stegi production
Concept & Curators: Pasqua Vorgia, Dimitris Theodoropoulos
Script & Research: Maria Louka
Production Management: Pasqua Vorgia
Video Coordination & Line Production: Smaragda Dogani
Artistic Direction: Christos Sarris
Artistic Overview: Konstantinos Chaidalis
Content Overview: Elizampetta Georgiadou
Motion Graphics: Georgia Skartadou
Editing-Translation:Vasilis Douvitsas
Subtitling: Authorwave
Music Score: Kostadis
Directors & Producers: Stavros Petropoulos, Leonidas Konstantarakos
Line Production: Alaska Films
Director of Photography: Giannis Karabatsos
Camera: Ivan Ziovas, Vangelis Lainas, Xenofon Vardaros, Petros Goritsas
Sound Recording: Iasonas Theophanou
Editor: Katerina Rekka
Production Manager: Giorgos Tsakiris
Production Manager Assistant: Stefanos Doulos
Set: Dimitra Liakoura
Production Assistant: Elias Dakovanos
Gaffer: Giannis Maragoudakis
Best Boys: Giorgos Satolias, Giorgos Karantalis
Production Coordination: Olympia Kaltsa
Voice Over Recording: Giannis Andritsopoulos - Mellow Studio
Sound Mix: Iasonas Theophanou
Color: Giannis Kanakis
Equipment: Rent Photo Video
Still Photographer: Pavlos Fysakis
Director of Culture: Afroditi Panagiotakou
Deputy Director of Culture: Dimitris Theodoropoulos
Group Communication & Content Manager: Dimitris Drivas
Content Leader: Alexandros Roukoutakis
Campaign Manager: Elisavet Pantazi
Onassis Creative Studio
Head of Creative: Christos Sarris
Onassis Media Office: Vasso Vasilatou, Katerina Tamvaki
Social Media Manager: Vassilis Bibas
Technical Director: Lefteris Karabilas
Technical Directorate & Project Support: Phil Hills
Lighting Technicians: Kostas Alexiou, Iakovos Bitsakis, Giakoumis Gkikas
Sound Technicians: Giannis Gliatis, Alekos Tzovaras
Stegi Line Production: Danae Giannakopoulou
Legal Support: A.S. Papadimitriou & Partners Law Firm, Prodromos Tsiavos
Thanks to: Markela Koniordou, Marika Konstantinidou, Katerina Sigala, Evelina Peteniotou, Pierre Cirignano
Photo: Pavlos Fysakis
