NIGHT RECEDES | LE SOIR RECULE

GREECE, FRANCE | 2024 | COLOR & B&W | DCP | 70’ | GREEK, FRENCH, ENGLISH

"Night Recedes" refers to the fascinating career of two important artists: the famous Greek sculptor Memos Makris (1913-1993), creator, among others, of the famous head in the entrance of the Polytechnic School, and the versatile Zizi Makris (1924-2014), who, apart from mosaics and tapestries, successfully worked also in drawing and photography. Wandering between German-occupied Athens, multicultural post-war Paris and Cold War Budapest, their lives reflect the art and history of the 20th century, the hopes and disappointments on both sides of the Iron Curtain. Through their work and memories, the film revisits issues always resonating strongly within us: utopia and ideology, totalitarianism(s), exile and freedom.

DIRECTOR: Timon Koulmasis
SCREENWRITER: Timon Koulmasis
DoP: Máté Papp, Odysseas Pavlopoulos
MUSIC: Éric Neveu
EDITOR: Aurique Delannoy

TIMON KOULMASIS
Timon Koulmasis was born in Germany. After studying History and Philosophy, he worked as a director in Paris. His fiction and documentary films have been screened at Cannes, Venice, Berlin, Locarno, Montreal and other festivals. They won several awards. In 2023, Timon Koulmasis was named Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres by the French Minister of Culture.

FILMOGRAPHY
2024 Night Recedes
2021 Lotte Eisner - A Place. Nowhere 
2016 Portrait of my Father in Times of War 
2010 Words of Resistance 
2004 Paths of Rebetiko 
1997 Sinasos - A Survey of Memory 
1995 Ulrike Marie Meinhof