FRIDA LIAPPA: A WOMAN'S EYE ON MODERN GREECE
When:
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Venue:
Birkbeck 43 Gordon Square
Frida Liappa was a distinctive, highly personal figure in the new Greek cinema that emerged after the fall of the Colonels’ junta in 1973. Thanks to the Greek Film Archive’s recent restorations, three early films will be shown. AFTER FORTY DAYS (1974) is set in the final years of the fascist regime, following a young soldier through a night in Athens, using a concealed camera and showing the exterior of a prison where Liappa was herself a prisoner. I REMEMBER YOU LEAVING ALL THE TIME (1977), inspired by a popular song, is set immediately after the junta, an era that defined a generation, portraying the relationship between a leftist journalist and a former actor. RENUNCIATION (1980) features a young student, left alone by her family in a cousin’s apartment and haunted by inner demons in a confusion of reality and fantasy. A poet and critic as well as a filmmaker, Liappa’s career was cut short by her early death in 1994.
Contact name:
Matthew Barrington