Eurydice in the Underworld
European premiere.
Introduction and Q&A with Felicity Palma (filmmaker) and Inés Calero (film programmer).
Eurydice in the Underworld is a loose adaptation of the diaries of Kathy Acker, an experimental novelist who died of breast cancer. It is a handcrafted and harrowing film that combines performance work, sound work, image manipulation, and Acker's diaries to confront isolation, alienation, psychosexual crisis, and the fears unleashed by this disease.
This intimate reinterpretation of the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice is, in turn, an experimental adaptation of the book of the same name by Kathy Acker, an experimental novelist who died of breast cancer. Through Acker's diaries, the film evokes the physical, emotional, and social effects of cancer treatment on a young woman’s body. It is a singular narrative about pain, the sadness and shadows of social isolation, sexual crisis, and the effects of this type of cancer. Through performance work, sound work, and words, the filmmaker returns to near-extinct landscapes, crafting a visually and textually raw narrative. The myth functions as a symbol to explore trauma, the restoration of the self, and the inhabiting of the inner underworld — so that this descent reveals the sick body as a political, poetic, and contested territory.
Inés Calero
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