Medea / Kore
Scenario by Antoinetta Angelidi and Rea Walldén
(2009)
SYNOPSIS
A parable about the silenced relationship between mother and daughter. A reconstruction and inversion of the myth of Medea. Medea is a hated character. Even her name is awful. And yet, what would happen if we told the story in a different way? What if the children weren’t killed? What if the mother’s only crime was to have been a woman and a foreigner? What if women started talking? We will tell an old story anew. A story about mothers and daughters, about the foreigners we all are, about the ethics of testimony and narration.
“I will burn paradise and extinguish hell, so that people will do good out of love”
| Original title: | Μήδεια / Κόρη |
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| International title: | Medea / Kore |
CREDITS
| Scenario: | Antoinetta Angelidi, Rea Walldén |
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A project for a feature-length film on which Angelidi and Walldén work since 2001. The writing of the scenario was finance by the “Writing” programme of the Greek Film Centre in November 2007. The completed scenario was submitted for film production to the “Horizons” programme of the Greek Film Centre in May 2009, and was rejected.
Audiovisual material from the film was included in the performance “Roots and Steps: A Work in Progress”, that Angelidi and Walldén did in the frame of the 6th Athens Avant-Garde Film Festival of the Greek Film Archive on 2009.
Date:
28 August 2024
