The tree of which none had heard from what roots it rises to heaven

Performance – Short film // May 2021 // 25′ // Evangelismos Hospital, Athens, Greece

This short film is based on a performance in memory of Ypatia Tsitsekli, who took her life in May 1925 by injecting morphine she found inside the drugsotre of Evagelismos hospital, where she used to provide care voluntarily to elder patients. The performance and the movie were made for Academia Romantica and the exhbition “Museum of Neo-Greek Suicide”.

Dance: Danae Manolesou, Areti Efstathiou – Directors: Danae Manolesou, Areti Efstathiou – Camera: Giorgos Efthymiou, Areti Efstathiou – Editing: Giorgos Efthymiou – Text: Ypatia Tsitsekli, Samson Rakas, Simone Weil – Photo credits: Giannis Misouridis, Christos Katopis