Filmicon: Journal of Greek Film Studies is a bilingual (English and Greek), peer-reviewed, open-access, online journal edited primarily by independent scholars and published by ‘Eurasia Publications’, Athens. More

The special issue of Filmicon “Strategies of the Documentary” seeks to address the diverse aesthetic, historical, medial, and theoretical connections between moving images and all possible aspects of the ‘documentary.’ In light of the many facets of this key term, the issue does not confine itself to practices or traditions of documentary cinema in Greece. It rather explores the multiple cinematic acts and modes of registering, representing, evidencing, authenticating, certifying, and instructing. It discusses the indexical nature of photography and the digital image, the factual as well as fictional functions of audio-visual recording, the archival status of documentary film in Greece, its ideologies, deceptions, and omissions, the filmic depiction of documentation processes, the documents presented on-screen or lost in the Mediterranean Sea. This thematic focus responds to three interrelated circumstances: ... More

Filmicon: Journal of Greek Film Studies is now accepting new blog posts. We welcome original pieces, interviews, articles, film reviews, book reviews, etc about Greek film, television and audiovisual culture. The blog posts range between 1500-3000 words and can be written either in English or Greek (or both language).

For our submission guidelines please click here.

Please send your blog post to Mikela Fotiou at mikela.fotiou@gmail.com or at filmiconjounal@gmail.com.

We are delighted to inform you that Antoinetta Angelidi will be honoured with the 2024 Ground Glass Award for outstanding contribution to the field of experimental media. A retrospective of her films will be presented at Anthology Film Archives in New York on Saturday, May 11th and Sunday, May 12^th, as part of the 2024 Prismatic Ground Festival.

The GROUND GLASS AWARD announcement:

The 2024 Ground Glass Award for outstanding experimental media goes to Greek filmmaker Antoinetta Angelidi (73) for her wildly imaginative contribution to the aesthetics of feminist filmmaking, and for her dedication to cinema as a mode of investigation. Angelidi's life's work has been the pursuit of a women's avant garde, the construction of a visual language that can convey, as one critic put it, "the adventure of women's bodies." Her films, under-screened in the US, present the feminine unconscious as a force for destabilizing prevailing structures. Hacking at the bedrock of civilization, each film becomes a kind of private quarry, where debris is held up to the light, then used to play a game. What is experience beyond description? What is a feminine subject beyond her pictorial representation? What is the relational gravity between physical life and the possibilities found in dreams? —Courtney Stephens [...]

Τα Τμήματα Επικοινωνίας, Μέσων & Πολιτισμού (Πάντειο Πανεπιστήμιο), Τεχνών Ήχου & Εικόνας (Ιόνιο Πανεπιστήμιο) και Arts du Spectacle (Université de Poitiers, Γαλλία) σας προσκαλούν για δήλωση συμμετοχής και υποβολή περιλήψεων στο Επιστημονικό Συνέδριο «Η κινηματογραφική κριτική στην Ελλάδα: Ιστορικές και μεθοδολογικές προσεγγίσεις» που θα λάβει χώρα στο Πάντειο Πανεπιστήμιο στην Αθήνα στις 21-23 Νοεμβρίου 2024. Για αναλυτικές πληροφορίες εδώ.

Gender-based violence has always existed as an urgent point of discussion in global and Greek feminist movements, and from time to time acquired prominence in public debate, informing political and legislative contexts and cultural production.

In recent years, feminicide hasreached epidemic proportions in Greece. The rise in violence against women and feminicide has beensometimes framed as being a consequence of socio-political and financial crises, or the result of unprecedented restrictionsand pressures due to the pandemic;and has even reigniteda public ‘debate’ in some of the popular press reporting on right wing political views, with deeply misogynist roots, on whether to recognise the killing of women by men as feminicide at all.

At the same time, movements such as #MeToo in Greece and feminist activism have sought to resist misogynist narratives and push back against long-standing masculinist systems of oppression and violence. [...]