Refocus: the Films of Antoinetta Angelidi

This book explores the diverse dimensions of Antoinetta Angelidi's creativity, including installations, expos, and innovative theories on cinema. It engages with new analytical and theoretical perspectives on Angelidi's films, examining their artistic airings of an interdisciplinary discourse between cinema, philosophy, psychoanalysis, and theories of literature. The book also examines Angelidi's four full-length fiction films, including Id es Fixes / Dies Irae (1977), Topos (1985), The Hours: A Square Film (1995), and Thief or Reality (2001).

Format: Hardback
Length: 264 pages
Publication date: 31 December 2022
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

The first comprehensive English-language book on the Greek Experimental Cinema director, Antoinetta Angelidi, delves into the diverse dimensions of her creativity, encompassing installations, expositions, and innovative theories on cinema. It engages with new analytical and theoretical perspectives on Angelidi's films, viewing them as artistic manifestations of an interdisciplinary discourse between cinema, philosophy, psychoanalysis, and theories of literature. The book examines Antoinetta Angelidi's four full-length fiction films: Id es 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, and her films and theoretical writings have been the subject of numerous film courses, critical essays, and retrospectives. Her primary creative strategies revolve around the inversion and juxtaposition of codes, the dream-mechanism, and the uncanny. This edited collection, dedicated to Antoinetta Angelidi's oeuvre, delves into the depth of cinematic heterogeneity and the narrative multiplicity of different filmic elements that characterize her work.

Weight: 522g
Dimension: 240 x 161 x 22 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781474493703