We are very happy to present for the first time in Athens the work of Rachel Micallef Somerville (b.2000, Malta), a filmmaker and researcher based in Berlin. Alongside her artistic work, she initiates screenings, discussions and workshops within artist-led and community contexts. She is a member of LaborBerlin.

The screening will be followed by a Q&A with the filmmaker. Entrance is free.

Films

Burst (7’, 2021)
An exploration of outer and inner space, a reflection on the self, a meditation on movement of the body, liberation and absurdity.

Rebirth (13’, 2023)
Bodies, landscapes, circularity, femininity, water, clay, death, rebirth. Rebirth is a meditation on psychoanalysis, dreams, and the cinematic feminine. A particularly personal film, it attempts to explore the theory of The Matrixial Borderspace, penned by Bracha Ettinger, both in terms of its shape as well as multiple recurring thematic elements.

Ż (16’, 2026)
The Maltese Islands have long been marked by conquest. The fragile landscape that remains is being rapidly erased by greed and corruption. The film drifts through what is left, as a narrator searches for an absent figure in the textures of rock, clay and seaweed. An elegy for land and sea, an elegy for land and Ż.