Receta
What would happen if Yorgos Lanthimos, Darek Jarman and Guy Debard were asked to co direct a newstory. Dogtooth’s asphyxiating sense of placeness, Garden’s visual homo erotic collage and the anti cinematic poetry of situationism are combined in Receta to reframe the experiences of emergency, ruination and guilt of the Greek crisis. Receta takes a highly publicized newstory, the Greek crisis and turns it into an avant guard extravaganza. A circus of marginal anti heroes, trans prostitutes, drug addicts, anarchist dissidents become protagonists of the national drama and are transformed into co authors of queer auto-cinematography. Information in Receta explodes as a form of synethetic alarm, an idiom of decadent pleasure, and a trip into chaos, memory and loss. The tense dialects between dream and social observance is the main aesthetic challenge of the film. This iconography points towards an idiomatic pop art vision of crisis, an reverie in the midsts of chaos. It reads the landscape of the Greek crisis as a disrupted dream scape. Media news, interviews, political ideas (the primary material of reportage) a transformed into a form of visual flanerie. Every scene in the film emphasises overlays, memory trips, hypnotic rhytms which aims to unite social reportage with multiple versions of new wave and avant guard cinema.
