*CFP* “THE FILMS OF ANTOUANETTA AGGELIDI”, REFOCUS, BOOK CHAPTERS

Antouanetta Aggelidi is a Greek film director and visual artist. Her work is unique and has had a significant impact on experimental cinema. She has directed four full-length fiction films – Idées Fixes / Dies Irae (1977), Topos (1985), The Hours: A Square Film (1995) and Thief or Reality (2001) – which have been screened at international film festivals and contemporary art museums, while she has also shot several short films and created visual installations. She is a member of the European Film Academy (E.F.A.) and a founding member of the Hellenic Film Academy (H.F.A.), of which she was the vice-president from 2009 to 2011. The inversion and juxtaposition of codes, as well as the dream-mechanism and the uncanny, constitute her main creative strategies. The complexity of cinematic heterogeneity and the narrative multiplicity of different filmic elements characterize her work.

Although Antouanetta Aggelidi is recognised as an important filmmaker and artist from Greece, there is lack of international academic texts and books regarding her work. Even if there are some books about Aggelidi, all of them are in Greek, making it very difficult for international scholars to learn about and research her work. Moreover, these books have a biographical tone, and so there is no sustained academic monograph or edited collection that covers the entirety of her work. This edited collection will fill this gap in the academic community. The proposed edited collection intends to put together a comprehensive and fresh study of her work.

Contributions may include (but are not limited to) the following topics:

• Antouanneta Aggelidi’s Universe
• Philosophical Methodologies
• Posthuman Approaches
• Gender and queer readings
• Psychoanalytic Approaches
• Revisiting Aggelidi’s short films
• Semiotic Approaches
• Aggelidi’s Visual Installations
• Aggelidi in Greek Cinema
• Ideologies and aesthetics in Aggelidi’s work
• Uncanny and defamiliarization in Aggelidi’s work
• Representation of the female body in Aggelidi’s work
• Figurativity in Aggelidi’s Cinema
• Architectural approaches in Aggelidi’s Cinema: Space and Time figuration
• The act of playing and experimentation in Aggelidi’s cinema
• Deconstruction and politics in Aggelidi’s cinema
• Aggelidi’s Experimental cinema in Commercial Greek film production
• Dream mechanism and film structure in Aggelidi’s cinema
• Formalistic and neo-formalistic approaches in Aggelidi’s cinema
• The novelty of Aggelidi’s work in experimental cinema
• Female creativity and gender representation in Greek experimental cinema: Aggelidi’s work
• Visual poetics in Aggelidi’s cinema

Please send your 300-word proposal and short bio to both editors of the volume, Sotiris Petridis and Penny Bouska, at the latest by 15 September 2019.

Acceptances will be sent out in late September 2019. Final chapters will be expected to be around 7,000 words, in English, and referenced in Chicago endnote style.

We are expecting final chapters on 01 March 2020.

Our volume will be published by the University of Edinburgh Press in the ReFocus series on international directors. Series editors are Robert Singer, Gary D. Rhodes and Stefanie Van de Peer.

Please direct any enquiries or questions to:

Sotiris Petridis - sotospetridis@yahoo.gr

Penny Bouska - pennympouska@gmail.com