... Building on techniques drawn from speculative analysis, this chapter explores Demitrios Tsafendas’s life as refracted in Penny Siopis’s film Obscure White Messenger. It offers an analysis of how Siopis finds ways of giving form to a traumatic past, at the intersection of Tsafendas’s tragic life...

... folksongs, Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man, and the life of Demitrios Tsafendas, the conclusion is that the sonic texture of Siopis’s films amplifies the strangeness of the past and its subjects rather than rendering them too easily audible or knowable. Louis Armstrong August Musarurwa Penny Siopis...

... H. F. Verwoerd Demitrios Tsafendas being at sea migrant images displaced voice ...

... Louis Armstrong August Musarurwa Penny Siopis soundtrack Demitrios Tsafendas Ralph Ellison ...

... of Demitrios Tsafendas, who fought with communist forces during the Greek Civil War, in Obscure White Messenger, and on several tragic waves of Greek history explored in The New Parthenon. The latter uses the partial lens of her father’s personal history, interweaving this with the rounding up of nine thousand...