Preface to a History

Oct 3, 2024

1h 0m

★ 0.0

Overview

A couple, Vlad and Sophy, navigate their relationship as well as their own struggles with mental health in the context of a highly connected, politically uncertain modern world while on a trip to a remote Canadian island in this avant-garde feature film. PREFACE TO A HISTORY, created with a tiny crew of four people, represents an experiment in using minimalist tools to create an overwhelming aesthetic experience in service of a simple, but specifically contemporary, story about two people attempting to navigate a fraying relationship amid all the anxieties and external pressures of modern adulthood in a technologically-interconnected and politically unstable era.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Sad Hill Media

Moving Image Agency

Preface to a History Trailers

Cast

Vlad

Vladimir Fedulov

Sophy

Sophy Romvari

Client

David Ohnona

Daniel

Daniel Jeffery

Passerby

Felix Oltean

Passerby

Susanna Barlow

Podcast Guest

Gloria Mercer

Podcast Host

Aidan West

Podcast Host

Paige Smith

Originally edited in two versions. Version I, 70 minutes; version II, 90 minutes. (The only known existing version is not Markopoulos’s edit and contains additional titles, music and voice-over added later than 1961. 65 minutes.) Filmed in Mytilene and Annavysos, Greece, 1958. Existing copy on video, J. and M. Paris Films, Athens.

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