Androktones
2018
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.
Editorial
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.
