Queer Strategies and Tentacles: Fuego στους φασίστες [Set fire to the fascists]
Bitter September
Sophia Farantatou
2022
26 Minutes
Date
December 23, 2024–January 5, 2025.
After the assassination of the Greek-American LGBTQ activist, Zak Kostopoulos, his childhood friend Sophia Farantatou, returns to Greece and finds herself stuck in a dead end. The video of the assassination shot from a passer by, plays on replay in all the national TV channels. Between the media storytelling and her own archive footage from her friend, Sophia has no choice but to isolate and reflect on the meaning of memory. Only time can give her the space to grieve and face the absence of her friend.
This screening is part of Fuego στους φασίστες [Set Fire To The Fascists], the fourth chapter of the film program Queer Strategies and Tentacles, curated by Rosa Barotsi and Zairong Xiang, and unfolding in eight chapters between November 25th, 2024 and March 2, 2025, with the films of each chapter streaming for two weeks.
For more information, contact program@e-flux.com.