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Double Labyrinthe

Name: Double Labyrinthe
Director: Katerina Thomadaki, Maria Klonaris
Released: 1976
Duration: 55 min

Representation Score

4.9/10

Fair

1976

Director

Katerina Thomadaki, Maria Klonaris

Runtime

55 minutes

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New Showbiz Analysis

Double Labyrinthe is a radical manifesto that centers the female gaze through its unique 'Cinema of the Body' philosophy. By employing a mirror structure where the directors film one another, the film successfully subverts patriarchal cinematic hierarchies and establishes intellectual parity between women. The work excels in gender representation, effectively dismantling the traditional male-centric observer role. However, the film's impact on broader diversity is limited by a lack of information regarding racial, ethnic, or disability representation, focusing instead on the gendered and bodily experiences of the two creators.

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Category Breakdown

Does Double Labyrinthe have LGBTQ+ representation?

Good

The film fosters reciprocal intimacy between the two female creators through a mutual gaze, which centers queer-coded modes of connection and disrupts traditional heterosexual viewing patterns.

How does Double Labyrinthe portray gender?

Excellent

This 'double auteur femme' project dismantles the archetype of the singular male visionary by prioritizing women's ability to drive the story and bodily autonomy through a non-hierarchical framework.

How racially and ethnically diverse is Double Labyrinthe?

Minimal

The available information provides no evidence regarding racial or ethnic diversity. The focus remains centered on gendered and bodily dimensions.

How does Double Labyrinthe represent religion and culture?

Excellent

The work challenges Western cinematic conventions by framing the body as a site of political manifesto, emphasizing subjective experience over traditional narrative structures.

Does Double Labyrinthe include disability representation?

Minimal

There is no information available regarding the portrayal of physical or neurodivergent identities in this film.

Present on Screen

Subverts traditional patriarchal cinematic hierarchies through a 'double auteur' framework.
Prioritizes women's ability to drive the story and bodily autonomy via the 'mutual gaze' structure.
Challenges Western cinematic conventions by centering subjective, radical aesthetic positions.

Limited or Absent

Lacks verifiable information regarding racial and ethnic diversity.
Provides no insight into the representation of physical or neurodivergent identities.

Official Synopsis

With this film-manifesto, the two artists invent what they called the Cinéma corporel (Cinema of the Body), they present themselves as a "double auteur femme" and they lay the foundations of the radical critical and esthetical positions of their work to come. Double Labyrinthe has a mirror structure based on their "mutual gaze": in the first part Katerina performs while filmed by Maria and in the second part Maria performs filmed by Katerina.

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