A Quiet Death

  • June 10, 2022 / 13:00

Director: Frieda Liappa
Cast: Eleonora Stathopoulou Pemy Zouni, Takis Moshos, Yorgos Moshos, Ilektra Alexandropoulou, Christos Nikitaidis
Greece, 1986, DCP, 86’, color
Greek with Turkish subtitles

The delirious night of a writer who refuses to write. Running away from her husband and her psychiatrist, with whom she also shares an elusive intimate relationship, she wanders through a storm in the strange and deserted city. Her ultimate desire is to re-invent a lost world of unity.

Madness - Death - Catharsis.

Reconstruction

Reconstruction

Z

Z

The Roundup

The Roundup

John the Violent

John the Violent

The Crossing

The Crossing

Deserter

Deserter

A Quiet Death

A Quiet Death

Olga Robards

Olga Robards

Mania

Mania

Evdokia

Evdokia

The Photograph

The Photograph

The Excursion

The Excursion

The Idlers of the Fertile Vallye

The Idlers of the Fertile Vallye

Morning Patrol

Morning Patrol

Stone Years

Stone Years

Young Aphrodites

Young Aphrodites

Trojan Women

Trojan Women

Il Cavallo di Leonardo

Il Cavallo di Leonardo

In 1493, exactly 500 years ago, Leonardo da Vinci was finishing the preparations for casting the equestrian monument (4 times life size), which Ludovico il Moro, Duke of Milan commissioned in memory of his father some 12 years earlier. 

Dancing on Architecture

Dancing on Architecture

I think it was Frank Zappa – though others claim it was Laurie Anderson – who said in an interview that ‘writing on music is much like dancing on architecture’. 

From the Age of Reason to the “Tortoise Trainer”

From the Age of Reason to the “Tortoise Trainer”

A Salon exhibition held in the Grand Palais in Paris on May 1, 1906 showcased an Ottoman painting. This was Osman Hamdi Bey’s famous “Tortoise Trainer”.