Alkisti Efthymiou

Alkisti Efthymiou is a social anthropologist, writer, and filmmaker. She is a PhD candidate in Social Anthropology at Panteion University in Athens, focusing on love and relationality in contemporary queer feminist cinema from Chile, Argentina, and Brazil. As a recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship (2023–2024), she conducted part of her doctoral research at UC Berkeley’s Department of Film & Media. She has also been a core researcher in the project “Antigones: Bodies of Resistance in the Contemporary World”, funded by the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (ELIDEK), where she explored contemporary reimaginings of Antigone in Latin America. Her texts have been published in various academic journals, magazines, and collected volumes. Her most recent book, co-authored with Luciano Concheiro and published by the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), critically examines how architects Robert Stacy-Judd and Manuel Amábilis reinterpreted Mayan culture through the myth of Atlantis.

Her film practice is inspired by queer feminist storytelling and affective forms of disobedience. Her short film, “No nos soltemos más” (2021), produced in Chile, explores collective care and feminist resistance, screening internationally at festivals such as Vienna Shorts, Curta Cinema, and FEMCINE. She is currently developing her first feature-length documentary, “Your Delicate Friend”, produced by Marni Films and supported by the Greek Film Center, about her grandmother’s transoceanic friendship with a lesbian woman in the 1950s. Alkisti is also a member of the Athens-based collective Nionia Films, dedicated to retrieving and screening queer feminist cinema from Greece and the Balkans.

She has worked in various cultural institutions linked to contemporary art, such as documenta 14 and the Athens Biennale, in roles such as curator, program coordinator, and education producer.

In the fall of 2020, during her time as Writer-in-Residence at Οnassis AiR, she edited the books “Transpirings” and “Scored Invocations”, which are part of the four-volume publication “The School of Infinite Rehearsals: Movements I-IV”.

She has been a participant in The School of Infinite Rehearsals (2020–21) and the Tailor-made Fellowships (2022–23), both at Onassis AiR. Her Tailor-made Fellowship marked the starting point for the development of “Your Delicate Friend”.