Maria Klonaris
Biography: Maria Klonaris, born in Cairo, Egypt, has studied fine arts at the National School of Fine Arts Athens, English literature at the University of Athens, egyptology at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris, experimental film, art history and philosophy of art at the University Paris I, Sorbonne, computer graphics at the National School of Decorative Arts, Paris.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: July 23, 1950
Deathday: January 13, 2014
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Known For
Kha Uebertragung - Les embaumées
1979-01-01
Kha Uebertragung - Les embaumées
Overview: The film revolves around three notions: Kha = the etheric double according to ancient Egyptians. Perpetual specter in all respects resembling the physical body of a dead person. Uebertragung = transfer. Phenomenon by which an emotional state experienced for one object is extended to another by an association. Identification. Projection. Moving from one order of things to another. Embalming = filling a corpse with balsamic, desiccating and antiseptic substances to preserve them. Fill with a sweet smell. Perfume.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-01-01
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Personal Statement
1994-01-01
Personal Statement
Overview: “Personal Statement” stages photographical treatments of the original medical document. The images unfold vertically while feminine hands (Katerina Thomadaki) try to stroke this mutant body. The off-screen voice (Maria Klonaris) talks to the photographed subject.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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XYXX Mosaic Identity
2013-01-01
XYXX Mosaic Identity
Overview: Video of the installation "XYXX Mosaic Identity" (Offenes Kulturhaus - Linz, 1994).
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-01-01
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Pulsar
2001-01-01
Pulsar
Overview: "Pulsar" belongs to "The Angel Cycle" ("Le Cycle de l´Ange"). In this cycle of works we create bonds between the human body and astronomical bodies. Maria Klonaris´ improvised performance is a negative dance which lies between pleasure and catastrophe, a black and blue body language which grapples with the white of the screen and the luminous suddenness of a firework display.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-01-01
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Angel Scan
2007-01-01
Angel Scan
Overview: Angel Scan. "Trip" – but without substances – except the substances created by the brain when energy awakes as a creative conscience, accompanied by an intense experience of "light" and "darkness". Hustle and bustle, bombing of atoms, dance of electric particles animated of an ultra fast movement.Invisible units of infra-atomic energy, forms/colours which are characterized by their irradiating heat and by their attraction strength as well as their potential of sound/ vibratory energy.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-01-01
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Quasar
2004-11-19
Quasar
Overview: The macrocosm present in QUASAR is a non colonized outer space. A non science-fictionalized outer space. It is a space of fantasized stars and galaxies, black holes and light particles. It is a space of hypnotic contemplation and dissociation of the subject from the self. Immersion into macrocosmic vibrations, rotations, contractions, into slow and curved time patterns. Non linear, non climactic time. Outer-inner skies.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-11-19
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Unheimlich III: The Mothers
1981-03-11
Unheimlich III: The Mothers
Overview: After five years of intense work on identity, an alchemical quest for the depths, after nine films and films / actions where the actresses' gestures resounded against a black background which eliminated the environment to reveal the inside, taken outside: encounter of the inside with the outside. Journey back into memory. Crossing the Greek landscape in August. The seas. The ruins, remains of abandoned houses, homes with holes, pierced by the wind, inside crossed by the outside. Unheimlich: the disturbing strangeness. Activation of a memory of origins. Unheimlich: what should remain secret, hidden and which manifests itself. MHTRIS = mother's country.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-03-11
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Double Labyrinthe
1976-07-04
Double Labyrinthe
Overview: With this film-manifesto, the two artists invent what they called the Cinéma corporel (Cinema of the Body), they present themselves as a "double auteur femme" and they lay the foundations of the radical critical and esthetical positions of their work to come. Double Labyrinthe has a mirror structure based on their "mutual gaze": in the first part Katerina performs while filmed by Maria and in the second part Maria performs filmed by Katerina.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-07-04
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Smoking
2016-11-26
Smoking
Overview: SMOKING is a brief portrait of Maria Klonaris composed of seven shots. Katerina Thomadaki completed it in 2016, two years after Maria Klonaris' passing, from rushes shot in 1975 at the time of the filming of DOUBLE LABYRINTHE. The Greek word that appears at the beginning of the film, μετείκασμα, signifies "meta-image" and refers to retinal persistence.
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Original Language: xx
Release Date: 2016-11-26
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Unheimlich II: Astarti
1980-09-30
Unheimlich II: Astarti
Overview: Astarti, the Greek name for Ishtar, is an archetype of a deep, nocturnal feminine that emerges from subterranean darkness. We experience an embodied cinematic experience realised through a sensuous aesthetic as we are invited to enter a strange and uncertain world of inner depths and hypnotising effects. There, we encounter three women actantes, embodied by the artists, who play mythic and magical female figures such as Medusa and Salome. They metamorphose, dance and enter trances where the body vibrates into transformation. Figures reveal themselves out of silence which is both the moment of creation and an eternal reality. The film itself actualises that which is inactual and gives form to blackness through a poetics of intimacy and an ethics of interpersonal relationships, which is founded in the artists’ own double authorship.
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Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1980-09-30
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L'enfant qui a pissé des paillettes
1977-08-30
L'enfant qui a pissé des paillettes
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-08-30
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Unheimlich I: Secret Dialogue
1979-05-31
Unheimlich I: Secret Dialogue
Overview: The film takes the Freudian concept of the uncanny generated by an inexplicable strangeness to expose the reappearance of the repressed feminine unconscious through splitting, doubling and mirroring the cinematic image to question the boundaries of the real. The late Maria Klonaris, who sadly passed away in the begining of 2014, with co-author Katerina Thomadaki, was responsible for some of the most radical womens' liberationist and transgender films and art ever created. Of Greek origin but based in Paris, Klonaris and Thomadaki were founders of the Cinema of the Body, a profound investigative practice into gender and bodily identity.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-05-31
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