Today from 18:00-21.00 hrs, the UvA Film Club will host their next screening in HVL/BuzzHouse’s Co-Working Space! This week's film is Landscape in the Mist (Theo Angelopoulos, 1988), with an introduction by Gia Tue Trinh.

In the midst of a silent morning, Voula and her five-year-old brother, Alexandros, wake up and slip out of Athens to find their dad, said to be waiting for them in Germany. Two reluctant Odysseuses are thrown into an errant pilgrimage where Greek myths dissolve into existential dread, absurdist imageries, and perpetual absence of “home”. Drifting through the liminal spaces of railroads, highways, and city streets, two children find themselves engulfed in a series of desolate landscapes. In the silence of the mist, something disquieted, eroded yet mythic and metaphysical about collective memory and loss is spoken out. Theo Angelopoulos’s “Landscape in the Mist” becomes, perhaps, a point of departure for reflecting on and beyond the “failures” of contemporary life and the unembellished material and symbolic violence that it carries.