121280 Ritual
A film by Antoinetta Angelidi and Rea Walldén
(1980 / 2008)
SYNOPSIS / CREATORS’ STATEMENTS
The naked body of the pregnant mother. The voice of the daughter. Inside-outside. A song to life.
THE MOTHER (fragment of a text by Angelidi, which accompanied the film at its first screenings): The twelfth day of the twelfth month of the year nineteen-eighty was the day before I gave birth to my second child, my son. I. Naked. To come to terms with my fear, I felt the desire to immerse myself into black water, to re-emerge and cuddle my belly. A remembering forgetfulness that to die giving birth is like being born dying.
THE DAUGHTER (fragment from the text by Walldén, which is spoken in the film): I return to my second self. Her smell. Mine. The centre I immerse in. Safety is a smell. And I rest. Calmness. The touch. In my head the buzz stops. In her smell, I rest.
| Original (English) title: | 121280 Ritual |
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| Year of performance & shooting: | 1980 |
| Year of Composition: | 2008 |
| Country of production: | Greece |
| Duration: | 16 min |
| Language: | English |
| Shot in: | 16mm, black & white |
| Final material: | digital, black & white |
| Aspect ratio: | 4:3 |
CREDITS
| Performance Concept Direction: | Antoinetta Angelidi |
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| Performing Pregnant Woman: | Antoinetta Angelidi |
| Camera: | Nikos Smaragdis |
| Composition & Concept Editing: | Antoinetta Angelidi, Rea Walldén |
| Text & Sound Design: | Rea Walldén |
| Sounds/Words Performance: | Rea Walldén, Antoinetta Angelidi |
| Editing Technician: | Angelos Mantzios |
| Sound Technician: | Kostas Bokos |
SCREENINGS
- 5th Athens Avant-Garde Film Festival, Greek Film Archive, Greece (2008)
- 7th Experimental Film Festival “Strange Screen”, Thessaloniki, Greece (2008)
- “Tribute to Antoinetta Angelidi”, 8th Experimental Film Festival “Strange Screen”, Thessaloniki, Greece (2009)
- “Cinema Regained” programme, 53rd International Film Festival Rotterdam, Netherlands (2024)
- “Antoinetta Angelidi in New York”, tribute on the occasion of Angelidi’s reception of 2024 Ground Glass Award for outstanding contribution to experimental media, Prismatic Ground Festival, Anthology Film Archives, New York, U.S.A. (2024)
- “Lightbox” screenings, Toronto International Film Festival, Canada (2024)
- “Tribute to Antoinetta Angelidi”, 13th Athens Avant-Garde Film Festival, Greek Film Archive, Greece (2024)
TRAILER
Date:
10 April 2024
