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ANDROKTONES
Synopsis
This short documentary retells the Amazons Female Warrior myths in the Turkish language, through the contradicting words of a female and male narrator. Set in a touristic Amazon theme park built in the Turkish Black Sea city of Samsun.
Synopsis
This short documentary retells the Amazons Female Warrior myths in the Turkish language, through the contradicting words of a female and male narrator. Set in a touristic Amazon theme park built in the Turkish Black Sea city of Samsun.
Our take
Set inside an Amazon-themed park on the Black Sea coast, Emine Yıldırım’s Androktones turns myth into a site of contestation. Drawing from the classical texts that first fixed the Amazons in legend, the film lets a woman’s voice spar with the enduring echo of patriarchal history.