Deipnophoroi2017

Name: Deipnophoroi
Released: 2017
Duration: 20 min

Deipnophoroi, a sequence of short two-channel videos, explores how mothers prepare their children for the unutterable, translating into contemporary language and anxieties an ancient Greek ritual, the Oschophoria, in which women (deipnophoroi, or “food-bringers”) re-enacted comforting their children with stories before sending them to the Minotaur and a certainly horrible fate.

Released: 31. 10. 2017
Runtime: 20 min
Certification: NO
Country, language: US · EN

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