WHAT WE ASK OF A STATUE IS THAT IT DOESN’T MOVE
Greece, France| 2024 | 31 min | col.
Departing from a 1944 provocatory essay by Yorgos V. Makris in which he suggested destroying the Parthenon once and for all for it to reach true eternity, Daphné Hérétakis puts together a sardonic, sharp investigation of present-day Athens. Clinging to its glorious past, the city has built its own identity, not without difficulty, at the expense of condemning its inhabitants to inertia and immobilism. The act of filming becomes a wake-up call, a collective reflection on a country’s history, memory, and heritage. Mixing different styles, such as documentary, fiction, and musical, the film director made a poetic and eccentric film that with a clever and ironical gaze observes a society coping with the construction of one out of several possible futures. (s.e.c.)
Local Time
- Timezone: America/New_York
- Date: 06 Nov 2024
- Time: 10:45
Location
- Cinema Astra - Piazza Cesare Beccaria, 9 50121 Florence (FI)
Organizer
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Daphné Hérétakis
Daphne Hérétakis studied at Paris 8 University and at Le Fresnoy National Studio for Contemporary Art. Her short films, treading a line between documentary and fiction, have been presented in many festivals such (IFFR, Hors Piste Pompidou, Visions du Réel). She lives and works between France and Greece. Currently she’s developing her first feature film.
