Unheimlich II: Astarti (1980)

• 60%
• 1980
• Maria Klonaris
• Parvaneh Navaï
• Katerina Thomadaki

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 realized through a sensuous aesthetic as we are invited to enter a strange and uncertain world of inner depths and hypnotizing effects. There, we encounter three women act-antes, 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.