Sofia Pintzou
ANAKḖLĒSIS 
(video art, 12 mins)

Official invitation from the Festival Cultura UNAM 2026, Mexico City, in the frame of its Artes Visuales focusing on the topic Vestigios del Futuro («vestiges of the future»).

Concept, Choreography & Performance: Sofia Pintzou 
Filming, Editing & Post Production: Achilleas Gatsopoulos
Original Music & Sound Design Recording: George Katsanos
Mixing & Mastering: Dimitris Dimitriades | Zero Gravity Studios, Athens
Photography: Mikolaj Karczewski 
Dramaturgical consulting: Marin Bauer, Georgia Alevizaki
Voice & texts, translations & paraphrases: Sofia Pintzou

Citations:
No mouth. No tongue. No teeth. No larynx. No esophagus. No belly [...] (Antonin Artaud, „Pour en finir avec le jugement de dieu“, French radio broadcast, 1947).

The activation of a contingency, the differentiation of a simplicity, the fragmentation of a totality, the vital impulse (Henri Bergson, „L’ évolution créatice“ [1907], in Œuvres, intr. Henri Gouhier, comm. André Robinet [Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, PUF, Édition du centenaire. 1. ed., 1959], p.571/90).

Ironic blasphemy (Donna Haraway, "A Manifesto for Cyborgs: Science, Technology, and Socialist Feminism in the 1980s"), Socialist Review, no. 80 (1985): 65–107).

No one has yet determined what this body can do (Baruch Spinoza, „The Ethics“ [1677], trsl. Samuel Shirley, ed. & intr., Seymour Feldman [Indianapolis / Cambridge: Hackett Publishing Company, 1992], Part III, Proposition 2, Scholium, p.105).

Special thanks: Ilektra Lioumi, Elena Evangelia

Choreography reherasals: Jump ‘n’ Jive Athens Swing Team, KoukaKi, GR

Filmed on locations at: Sculpture Theatre Aixoni, Municipality of Glyfada, Attiki, GR
PERIAKTOI Theatre, Markopoulo, Attiki, GR
Panorama, Porto Rafti, Attiki, GR
Vilnia River, Vilnius, LT