The Cinematheque

“Topos articulates, for the first time in Greece, through cinema, a breathtaking, complete and absolute, contemplative woman’s discourse … An exquisite achievement of unique and masterly avant-garde cinematic language.”

Maria Papadopoulou, Νέα

Antoinetta Angelidi is one of the most important Greek modernists, who has forged her own practice of feminist experimental cinema. Since the early 1970s she has been creating a visual language that deconstructs the patriarchal representation of women, while also offering poetic images that plumb the depths of desire and the unconscious—images, in the words of Lefteris Kypraios, ​“of insurmountable visual beauty [that] compose a secret world.” In Topos, Angelidi constructs personal dreamscapes of masterly tableaux, many with painterly references to the work of Masaccio and Balthus. These are accompanied by a unique audioscape of polyphony and silence. Angelidi’s work has enjoyed a resurgence in recent years. In 2024 alone, retrospective screenings were presented at TIFF and Prismatic Ground in New York, along with a spotlight program in the Cinema Regained section at Rotterdam.

In Greek and Italian with English subtitles

“In Topos, there is no such thing [as room tone]. When you have silence, it’s complete silence … The beginning of silence is the silence of the night sky during summer. It’s when you can see the stars. It is also the sound of the universe, and I had this feeling that cinema had the possibility of creating the sound of the universe.”

Antoinetta Angelidi