• Greek Title Πέρασμα – Δράμα
  • Original Title Passing Drama
  • Year: 1999
  • Genre: Essay-film
  • Country: Germany
  • Duration: 66'
  • Director / Scriptwriter: Angela Melitopoulos
  • Cinematography: Angela Melitopoulos
  • Editing: Angela Melitopoulos, Sigrid Hombach
  • Music / Score: Thomas Brinkmann, Anthony Moore
  • Sound: Angela Melitopoulos
  • Cast: Featuring: Theophilos Konstandinidis, Paraskevoula and Gotzo Konstandinidou, Eumorfia Marabidou, Anthimos Marabidis, Meletis, Savvas Papadopoulos and his mother, Angeliki Vlassios, Vassilis and Urania Zevgelidis, Maria Hasel, Petros Melitopoulos
  • Production: Academy of Media Arts Cologne, Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, FABRICA, MED Campus - Middle East Tech. University in Ankara, Filmbüro NW e.V.
  • Awards: Award of the German Film Critics for Experimental Video
  • Color: Color
  • Audio: Sound
  • Language: German, Greek
  • Format: Μη διαθέσιμη πληροφορία

Τhis video-essay unfolds the testimonies of refugees from the Asia Minor Catastrophe, including members of her own family, who initially settled in Drama, were later sent to forced labor camps, and eventually became immigrant workers in Germany. Through abstract editing, she interlaces the voices of three generations of refugees and migrants with white noise and images of industrial production lines. In a rhythmic and sensorial manner, the film delves into questions of memory, oblivion, and political resistance.

As Melitopoulos herself notes, “the film sketches the interweaving of a narration in which forgetting is never purely individual. Each act of forgetting merges with the forgetting of a past world, combining with it in countless, uncertain, shifting connections, in ever new monstrosities”.


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