Biographia

With a title that expresses the connectiondisagreement of bios βίος life and graphi γραφή writing this film of Rentzis has as a subject the passage from homo universalis to homo industrialis Based on a visual material provided by the collage book of the Basque Chumy Chúmez the film forms out of cultural deposits of the industrial era a novative oneirographic discourse through the audacious and unprecendeded claim of a combinatorial optimization of collagemontage technopoetics Viewing the body as historical ideotype the sublime point of reference a matrix and a refusal of all signs Rentzis dissects the body of film makes an interparody of historical utopias and certainties and moves between animation and expanded cinema in order to reflect on the broader social political question of our social coexistence condition the unity and rupture