I’m a critic and essayist based in Athens.

My practice is concerned with the environmental contexts that shape cinema. That is to say, the spaces and ecologies that inform film and are in turn coloured by its
affect.
 I’m interested in the interactive palimpsest that continues to take shape as we encounter each frame—the mosaic space that is made of many, but lives as one. This practice is a negotiation between affect and structure, presence and absence, environment and screen.

My goal is to orient film writing towards a kind of place-ness; to find spaces that can localise thoughtful exchanges on cinema; to think of criticism as something that cannot exist in singularity and is always generated in between. My essays have appeared in The Kenyon Review, Loom Literary Journal, and Queer East among others. I studied theatre and performance at National and Kapodistrian University (Athens), RCSSD and Guildhall (London). My thesis, In Search of National Cinemas, explored how the concepts of resistance, time, and place are employed on the post/colonial screen.

I frequently collaborate with film festivals, curate the biweekly newsletter Post-Index, and co-host the forthcoming podcast This Film Exists.
Contact
eirinibakola [at] gmail.com
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