Variations on the Same Theme (1977)

As a creator of alternative and poetic cinema, Antouanetta Angelidi combines her knowledge of film history with universal artistic language while maintaining her unique personal form. In an experimental exploration of gender, the film employs not only cinematic language but also music, language, sound, architecture, poetry, and body language, incorporating a magnificent meta-narrative of concrete and abstract ideologies about intellectual and political extremism. Based on an exploration of contrasts between the dipole of reality and art/masculinity and femininity, this film examines the variations on the same subject through a striking, paradoxical, black-and-white audiovisual collage.