Sandra Lahire 4 / films by Sarah Pucill, Maria Klonaris & Katerina Thomadaki
In the presence of Sarah Pucill and Katerina Thomadaki
Courtisane is een platform voor film en audiovisuele kunsten. In de vorm van een jaarlijks festival, filmvertoningen, gesprekken en publicaties onderzoeken we de relaties tussen beeld en wereld, esthetiek en politiek, experiment en engagement.
Courtisane is a platform for film and audiovisual arts. Through a yearly festival, film screenings, talks and publications, we research the relations between image and world, aesthetics and politics, experiment and engagement.
In the presence of Sarah Pucill and Katerina Thomadaki
I ritualise through a performance to camera the coming to terms with the loss of my partner, Sandra Lahire. A journey of mourning incorporates this staging both for myself and for the camera / audience. The film explores the relationship between the hallucinatory power of the phantom of memory with that of the phantom ingrained in the photograph, film or video. (Sarah Pucill)
An intercorporeal study in two parts, carried out entirely by two women in search of their own mental structures, their own poetics, their own language. One films the other. Katerina's inner space acted out by herself and watched/filmed by Maria. Maria's inner space acted out by herself and watched/filmed by Katerina. Interchangeable functions. An attempt to overcome the classic subject/object, act/transcribe, see/be seen dichotomies. The camera as an extension of the body, an eye that touches. (Maria Klonaris & Katerina Thomadaki, 1976)