Voices of Athens: Statues Also Die

Here Nothing

29min, 2011, Greece

Daphné Hérétakis

This film begun in september 2008, in Exarchia, he stronghold of Athenian dissent. As the months passed and the political situation of Greece evolved, the film became the canvas on which testimonies finally laid, thus composing the fragmented landscape of a country in crisis.

Archipelagos, naked granites

24min, 2014, Greece

Daphné Hérétakis

Athens 2014. Between bereaved desires and lost hopes, a film diary bangs against the walls of the city. The daily life of a country in crisis, the inertia of revolution, the individual issues that confront the political, questions of survival that confront ideals. Can we still ask the simplest questions?

The Seaweed in Your Hair

8min, 2016, Greece

Daphné Hérétakis

Poetic ode to Athens and its inhabitants immediately post-referendum. Intimate diary entries, a pop song and poetry declaimed by the people of the hollowed-out city uniting hope, melancholy and happiness. The Seaweed in Your Hair proves beauty can be found in times of crisis.

What we Ask of a Statue is That it Doesn't Move

32min, 2024, Greece

Daphné Hérétakis

Nothing seems to be moving in Athens and the people are as still as statues. But elsewhere in the city, a caryatid escapes the museum and a small groupuscule demands the destruction of all antiquities. Perhaps filming is the only way to avoid turning into stone.

About the Director

Daphné Hérétakis

Born in 1987

Daphne Heretakis studied at Paris 8 University, where she graduated with a Master’s degree in documentary filmmaking, and at Le Fresnoy national studio for contemporary art. Her films tread a fine line between documentary and fiction, blending intimacy and the collective, and has been presented in many festivals such as IFFR, Hors Piste Pompidou, Visions du Réel, etc. She lives and works between France and Greece.