Biography
ANTOINETTA ANGELIDI
FILM DIRECTOR & VISUAL ARTIST
Antoinetta Angelidi (b.1950, 30th April) is a pioneer of Greek feminist and avant-garde cinema, and a visual artist. She studied Architecture in Athens, Greece; Film Direction and Editing at the Institut des Hautes Etudes Cinématographiques (IDHEC) in Paris, France; and Film Theory with Christian Metz. Her work includes four feature-length films – Idées Fixes / Dies Irae (1977), Topos (1985), The Hours – A Square Film (1995) and Thief or Reality (2001) –, as well as short films and art installations. It has been screened in international film festivals and contemporary art museums, as well as in theatres and national television.
Antoinetta Angelidi: Her Method of Film Direction
She uses art history and her dreams as raw material for her work, “distancing [herself] from reality in order to reach out to the Real”. The inversion and juxtaposition of codes, as well as dream-mechanism and the uncanny, constitute her main creative strategies. The complexity of cinematic heterogeneity and the narrative multiplicity of the different filmic elements characterise her work.
Antoinetta Angelidi: Academia and Memberships
She taught for many years Film Direction in the Film School at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, as well as the Universities of Patras, Thessaly and the Aegean. She is a member of the European Film Academy; and a founding member of the Hellenic Film Academy, and Women in Film and Television Greece.
Antoinetta Angelidi: Lifetime Recognition
A retrospective tribute to her work was included in the 46th International Thessaloniki Film Festival (2005), where she was given the Golden Alexander Award for her lifetime achievement in cinema. A retrospective tribute to her work was also included in the Prismatic Ground Festival (2024) at Anthology Film Archives, New York, where she was given the Ground Glass Award for her outstanding contribution to the field of experimental media. A volume on her work in Greek was published by Thessaloniki Film Festival and the volume in English ReFocus: The Films of Antoinetta Angelidi was published in ReFocus: The International Directors Series of Edinburgh University Press. Her intimate confession about her life and work, Obsessive Hours at the Topos of Reality (2022), was shot by her daughter Rea Walldén.
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Eva Forest
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“ L'EAU”
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"IDÉES FIXES / DIES IRAE"
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"ΤΟ ΔΩΡΟ"
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"ΕΧΙΔΝΕΣ"
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"ΤΟΠΟΣ"
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"ΠΤΩΣΕΙΣ"
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"ΟΘΟΝΗ-MATRIX"
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"ΜΙΑ ΣΕΛΙΔΑ ΑΠΟ ΤΟ ΒΙΒΛΙΟ ΤΩΝ ΩΡΩΝ"
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"ΟΙ ΩΡΕΣ: ΜΙΑ ΤΕΤΡΑΓΩΝΗ ΤΑΙΝΙΑ"
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"ΚΛΕΦΤΗΣ Ή Η ΠΡΑΓΜΑΤΙΚΟΤΗΤΑ"
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"ΜΑΥΡΑ ΝΕΡΑ"
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"ΩΡΑ ΜΕΣΗΜΕΡΙΟΥ"
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"METAMORPHOSIS OFBY AA"
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"KNOT – NOT – KNOT"
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"121280 RITUAL"
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"ΠΑΤΕΡΑΣ / Η ΚΑΡΕΚΛΑ"
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"ΡΑΒΟΝΤΑΣ ΧΩΡΙΣ ΚΛΩΣΤΗ"
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"ENCORE – STRETCHING"
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"ORGANIC GAMES II"
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Eva Forest
A film by Antoinetta Angelidi, Pierre Lévy, Arthur MacCaig,
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François Margolin, and Paco Periñan
16mm, black and white, 20 min, 1975
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IDÉES FIXES / DIES IRAE
A film by Antoinetta Angelidi
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16mm, black and white (with one colour shot), 60 min, 1977
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13 Terrors
Thirteen scripts by Antoinetta Angelidi and Claire Mitsotaki
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It was submitted in 1982
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A Trajectory Almost Random; A Story Not Random at All
A film by Antoinetta Angelidi
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Video, colour, 20 min, 2001
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Noon Hour
A film by Antoinetta Angelidi and Rea Walldén
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Digital, colour, 31 min 8 sec, 2006
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KNOT – NOT – KNOT
A film by Antoinetta Angelidi and Rea Walldén
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Digital, colour, 4 min, 2007
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121280 RITUAL
A film by Antoinetta Angelidi and Rea Walldén
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Shot material: 16mm, black and white, 1980
Final composition: digital, black and white, 16 min, 2008
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Roots and Steps: Work in Progress
A performance by Antoinetta Angelidi and Rea Walldén
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2009
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Stitches Without Thread
A work by Antoinetta Angelidi
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Multi-projection installation, 2012
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Obsessive Hours at the Topos of Reality
A film by Rea Walldén
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Digital, colour, 88 min, 2022
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This Could Have Been Braque’s Violin: 1960, 10 years old, in Patras
A performance by Antoinetta Angelidi
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2023
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Inspired by Ugetsu Monogatari
Work by Antoinetta Angelidi
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From the drawings of her youth, 1967
Exhibited for the first time in 2023
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A Fairytale for the Present: Dialogue
A performance by Antoinetta Angelidi and Rea Walldén
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2024
