Deipnophoroi
MovieTitle | Deipnophoroi |
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Release date | Oct 31, 2017 |
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Director | Maya Gurantz |
Production country | US |
Run time | 20 min. |
Deipnophoroi, a sequence of short two-channel videos, explores how mothers prepare their children for the unutterable, translating into contemporary language and anxieties an ancient Greek ritual, the Oschophoria, in which women (deipnophoroi, or “food-bringers”) re-enacted comforting their children with stories before sending them to the Minotaur and a certainly horrible fate.