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Unheimlich II: Astarti

0.0(0)19802h 45m1

Astarti, the Greek name for Ishtar, is an archetype of a deep, nocturnal feminine that emerges from subterranean darkness. We experience an embodied cinematic experience realised through a sensuous aesthetic as we are invited to enter a strange and uncertain world of inner depths and hypnotising effects. There, we encounter three women actantes, embodied by the artists, who play mythic and magical female figures such as Medusa and Salome. They metamorphose, dance and enter trances where the body vibrates into transformation. Figures reveal themselves out of silence which is both the moment of creation and an eternal reality. The film itself actualises that which is inactual and gives form to blackness through a poetics of intimacy and an ethics of interpersonal relationships, which is founded in the artists’ own double authorship.

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Part of Unheimlich I: Secret Dialogue · 3 films

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  • United KingdomGB

    • PremiereLondon Film Festival12 Oct 2019
  • FranceFR

    • PremiereBiennale de Paris30 Sept 1980
    • PremiereCentre culturel de l'Abbaye15 Jan 1981
  • SwitzerlandCH

    • PremiereThéâtre de poche, Bienne20 Dec 1980

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Unheimlich II: Astarti was released on 30 September 1980.

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