Weaving documentary, fiction and reverie, this experimental film contemplates the intricate dance of power and fear through an aging Perseus, who carries the weight of an ancient violence: the beheading of Medusa—her only crime being a beauty that awakened Athena's envy. Having once served as unwitting instrument of Athena's dominion, delivering the severed head that would become her shield of fear, Perseus now awakens to the echoes of his deed across millennia. His dreamed quest for atonement—to reclaim Medusa's head from the goddess of walls and borders, and restore it to its rightful place in eternal rest—unfolds as a meditation on how fear of the Other continues to fortify the ramparts of power. Through this journey of recognition and repair, the film traces the delicate threads that connect ancient myths to contemporary forms of political violence, where the spectacle of difference becomes a weapon of division.
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