Zeta, Floretta, Niki | Day 1

18:30 | “Topos” by Antoinetta Angelidi | 1985 | 85΄ | DCP | In Greek without subtitles

Introduced by Antoinetta Angelidi

21:00 | “The Slow Business of Going” by Athina Rachel Tsangari | 2000 | 101´ | 35MM | In English with Greek subtitles

Introduced by Thelyia Petraki

A woman gives birth and dies. At the moment of her death, this in-between moment, her face disintegrates and assumes the aspects of those who stand by her bed, while her body is torn by the conflicts of those who inhabit it. In this iconic and iconoclastic work, Angelidi offers a parable on space and time, a game of transformation, where the industrial locations of the film become a woman’s subjectivity, absorbing memories and dream fragments.

Awards/Distinctions

Special Jury Prize, Best Sound-Track Award, Greek Film Critics Best Film Award (Thessaloniki Film Festival, 1985), Hellenic Ministry of Culture Quality Award

Petra Going is a delegate of the Global Nomad Project, an international niche organization that sends its agents around the globe so that they can record their experiences through a special gear in their eye lenses. Every so often, the agents return to the organization's headquarters and “upload” their experiences to a memory file made available to virtual users, who then “rent” the ready-made sites of consciousness that are stored in the GNP database. But one day, Petra commits an unforgivable sin for her line of work: she will allow herself to remember. The adventurous, swinging debut of Athena Rachel Tsangari is an introduction to the director’s unique visual vocabulary, and foreshadows a new Greek cinema that opens up to the world, following new roads.

Awards/Distinctions

“New Look” Special Mention (Rotterdam International Film Festival 2001)