The details of the young actor’s face – his eyes, eyebrows, earlobe, chin, etc. – are set opposite the old buildings in the market quarter of Athens, where every street is named after a classic ancient Greek playwrite. In this setting of intense stillness, sometimes interrupted by sudden sounds and movements in the streets, he speaks a single word, “teleftea”, meaning the last (one), and as he repeats this word, it moves differently each time across his face and gains another sense from one scene to the next, suggesting the uncanny proximity of eroticism, the sacred and chance.
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Part of My Hand Outstretched to the Winged Distance and Sightless Measure
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Ruskin
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AMOR
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Efpsychi
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The Stoas
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Sotiros
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The Ground
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The Hedge Theater
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Cast
1 person
Robert Beavers Director
United States release September 11, 1997 · Produced in Greece
Production
Greece
Produced in
Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
No dialogue
Release dates
Austria · January 25, 1983
Premiere · (First Version) Österreichisches Filmmuseum, Vienna
United States · September 11, 1997
Premiere · (Final Version) New York Film Festival
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