Efpsychi
Directed by Robert Beavers
“The details of the young actor’s face – his eyes, eyebrows, earlobe, chin, etc. – are set opposite the old buildings in the market quarter of Athens, where every street is named after a classic ancient Greek playwrite. In this setting of intense stillness, sometimes interrupted by sudden sounds and movements in the streets, he speaks a single word, “teleftea”, meaning the last (one), and as he repeats this word, it moves differently each time across his face and gains another sense from one scene to the next, suggesting the uncanny proximity of eroticism, the sacred and chance.” (Robert Beavers)
Duration
0h 20m
Released
January 25, 1983
Part ofThe My Hand Outstretched to the Winged Distance and Sightless Measure
Includes Winged Dialogue (1967), Early Monthly Segments (2003), Plan of Brussels (1968), The Count of Days (1969), Palinode (1970), Diminished Frame (1970), Still Light (1971), From the Notebook of... (1972), The Painting (1972), Work Done (1973), Ruskin (1974), Sotiros (2000), Amor (1980), Efpsychi (1983), Wingseed (1985), The Hedge Theater (2002), The Stoas (1997), and The Ground (2001).
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