The Dream of Norma

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.

details

  • Runtime

    7 min
  • Country

    Germany
  • Year of Presentation

    2010
  • Year of Production

    2009
  • Director

    Alexiou Telémacos
  • Cast

    Vaginal Davis, Alexiou Telémacos
  • Production Company

    Chocolate Grinder Films, Berlin
  • Berlinale Section

    Forum
  • Berlinale Category

    Short Film

Biography 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.

Filmography Alexiou Telémacos

2009 The Logic of the Cat | 2011 An Interview with an Artist | 2014 Simón de la Columna | 2014 Vasilissa Antigoni: Tris Praksis