Movies: Angela Melitopoulos

Inherently political, the three films that constitute Muster (Rushes) (2012) visually link to one another, with each roughly half-hour narrative (79 minutes combined for the single-channel version) taking place at a former Benedictine monastery outsi...

Crossings is a four-channel video and sixteen-channel sound installation shot in metallurgy plants in Lavrion and Skouries, Greece, as well as in refugee camps in Lesbos and Piraeus. It is a documentary work that engages with the social dimensions an...

For Antonio Negri, renowned political philosopher and author of the international bestseller "Empire" (co-authored with Michael Hardt, 2000), a 17 year long chapter of repressive Italian politics of detention, exile, and imprionment recently ended. T...

A visual research project reexamining the ideas of the philosopher and psychiatrist Félix Guattari on animismic culture as a form of collective subjectivity (collective assemblages of enunciation), as well as the time in his life when he tried to lay...

Matri Linear B takes the expressive powers of the Earth’s surface as “speaking landscapes” as its starting point, as agencies of a statement, while exploring how we can learn to see them. Central for the project’s second part, Surfacing Earth, are th...

An attempt to translate Walter Benjamin's theory "On the Language as Such and on the Language of Man" into a montage using images from Tokyo's hightech amusement parks and artificial environments: precisely calculated acceleration and merry-go-round ...

This video art piece creates a collage of the people, mechanisms, and advertisements in the transfer station of an underground train....

The video ‘Passing Drama’ reflects the acoustic image of Melitopoulos' family history. It tells the refugee story of her Greek family that came across three generations as a fragmentary and fairy-tale-like image. Flight as the fundamental motif of th...