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- You are here: Home > THE END OF SUFFERING (A PROPOSAL)
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Tuesday, November 24, 2020 - 19:00
Written by:
Jacqueline Lentzou
Cast:
Sofia Kokkali
Cinematography:
Konstantinos Koukoulios
Editing:
Smaro Papaevaneglou
Sound:
Leandros Ntounis
Producer:
Fenia Cossovitsa
Production:
BLONDE S.A.
Panic-stricken, Sofia finds herself caught up in an otherworldly exchange with the Universe, meant to explain the purpose of her earthly experience. Imagined by LENTZOU as an emanation, the presence of the surreal is ever suggested, but never materialized. Lying somewhere between revelation and hallucination, this direct inter-planetary transmission oscillates between advice inspired by self-help advice and unexpected disclosures about the true nature of the Mars-born protagonist. Shot on 16mm film tinged in a bright red hue, this speculative journey towards the mother planet - where time does not exist, the old is the same as the new and dream is the true reality - has the rhythm of a planetary symphony, immersing the audience in an endless floating state. (Oana Ghera, BIEFF 2020)
Director:
JACQUELINE LENTZOU (b. Athens, 1989) is a Greek writer and director interested in experimenting with formats, duration and feelings in order to create visual poetry through unexpected word and image associations. She has directed four shorts which have screened in numerous festivals, including Cannes, Berlin and Locarno. Her short film HECTOR MALOT: THE LAST DAY OF THE YEAR has won the Cine Leica Discovery Award in Cannes’ Semaine de la Critique (2018).
Contact:
Wouter Jansen
Festivals, awards:
Locarno Film Festival 2020 / New York Film Festival 2020 / BFI London Film Festival 2020 / Riga International Film Festival 2020 / 25FPS Festival 2020
“Evoking textures of the past by shooting on 16mm, THE END OF SUFFERING (A PROPOSAL) operates as an imaginary ethnography of the red planet. But if traditional ethnography is driven by the objective of making the unfamiliar comprehensible, this fantastical ethnography does the inverse as shots of animals and athletes are defamiliarized, their earthly associations abandoned for new ones. This imagined Mars is a place where people dream while they’re awake and fight in the name of love.
And why not? What do we really know anyway? Is the film’s titillating proposition.”
(Emily Wright - Kinoscope)