Bio-graphia

Overview

With a title that expresses the connection/disagreement of bios (βίος) = life, and graphi (γραφή) = writing, this film of Rentzis has as a subject “the passage from homo universalis to homo industrialis”. Based on a visual material provided by the collage book of the Basque Chumy Chúmez, the film forms, out of cultural deposits of the industrial era, a novative oneirographic discourse, through the audacious and unprecendeded claim of a combinatorial optimization of collage/montage techno-poetics. Viewing the body as historical ideotype ‘the sublime point of reference, a matrix and a refusal of all signs’, Rentzis, dissects the body of film, makes an inter-parody of historical utopias and certainties and moves between animation and expanded cinema in order to reflect on the broader social, political question of our social coexistence condition, the unity and rupture.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

September 26, 1975

Original language

Greek

Spoken languages

Greek

Countries

Greece

Production

Filmogram

Cast

Giorgos Kyritsis

Director

Thanasis Rentzis

Writer

Thanasis Rentzis,Chumy Chúmez

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt0292335