OXI An Act of Resistance
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Constructed out of interviews with Greek politicians, economists and Athenian citizens, an investigation – courtesy of Dominique Pinon – into the theft of Greek letters and performed in-situ excerpts of Greek tragedies, including Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex, Antigone and Aristophanes’ The Frogs, Ken McMullen’s OXI An Act Of Resistance is a pluralistic look at the Greek economic crisis from all angles. It’s multilingual – in Greek, French, English and German – and multilayered – opening up a dialectic which interrogates the laws of Creon and Antigone, logic, law and empathy and the riddle of the sphinx – a landmark at the edge of our understanding. Enriching, engrossing and irresistibly enigmatic, Ken McMullen’s documentary turns crisis and catharsis into something much more than a Greek tragedy.
OXI An Act of Resistance is showing on Oct 9th at the 58th BFI London Film Festival
