Films A to Z
The Dream of Norma
- Runtime:
- 7 min.
- Year of Production:
- 2009
- Country:
- Deutschland
- Director:
- Cast:
- Vaginal Davis
Alexiou Telémacos - Production Company:
- Chocolate Grinder Films, Berlin
- Berlinale Section:
- Forum
- Berlinale Category:
- Short Film
Telémacos Alexiou’s video installation THE DREAM OF NORMA translates principal cinematographic parameters like stillness/movement, depth/flatness, black/white into a reduced and lusty duality. On three screens, a dancing duel unfolds between Norma (Vaginal Davis) and a phantom masked in black (Telémacos Alexiou). It is a ceremony of temptation, a erotic courtship in a blinding white, »unmarked room« (Deleuze); a room free from all spacial coordinates. The dancers’ bodies are transformed into graphic forms. Telémacos Alexiou uses choreographed camera and bodily movement to recreate personal experience and ask questions about identity.
BIOGRAFIE Alexiou Telémacos
Telémachos Alexiou was born on January 3, 1992 on the island of Evvia, Greece. At the age of 17 he moved to London, UK, to study Communications and Visual Culture and three years later to Berlin where he studied Film Theory at the Freie Universität Berlin and started working as a filmmaker and artist.
His diverse body of work includes narrative feature films, media installations, performance art and photography. His work is characterized by a dreamy, surrealistic approach to every day experience and to notions such as identity, sexuality, repression and desire.
FILMOGRAFIE Alexiou Telémacos (selection)
2014 Simón de la Columna
2014 Vasilissa Antigoni: Tris Praksis
2011 An Interview with an Artist
2009 The Logic of the Cat
2009 The Dream of Norma