Director: Fotini Siskopoulou
Cast: Minas Hatzisavvas, Dimitra Hatoupi, Akis Sakellariou, Katerina Helmi
Greece, 1995, 105', DCP, color
Greek, Italian with Turkish, English subtitles
Andreas Savvidis is a writer who uses the people around him as material for his books. Beyond his actual experiences, he also makes up imaginary people and events to further the plot of his novel in progress, for which he is ready to sacrifice both his personal life and happiness. A number of individuals will play an important role in his life and the novel: an attractive nurse bitter about men, a mailman who pokes his nose everywhere, his younger gay brother, an older friend, and his sick mother. As director Fotini Siskopoulou’s first feature, the film demonstrates her sound knowledge of film language and creates a closed, stifling, and erotic atmosphere, in which her writer-hero navigates.
Objects also bear the memory of the geography to which they relate. Ceramics, with soil as their primary material, are directly linked to the land where they are produced: forging a direct relationship with earth, ceramics bear the memory of the soil where they come from.
Each memory tells an intimate story; each collection presents us with the reality of containing an intimate story as well. The collection is akin to a whole in which many memories and stories of the artist, the viewer, and the collector are brought together. At the heart of a collection is memory, nurtured from the past and projecting into the future.
John Frederick Lewis is considered one of the most important British Orientalist artists of the Victorian era. Pera Museum exhibited several of Lewis’ paintings as part of the Lure of the East exhibition in 2008 organized in collaboration with Tate Britain.
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