For this episode we will be talking about the Greek film Aggelos, a second instalment of what I would loosely call a series focused on films and cinematic themes from Greece and Cyprus. Aggelos is a melodrama released in 1982 by the director Giorgos Katakouzinos who reinterpreted the real-life events of a murder of a young gay man by his partner, a few years before the film.

I invited Panos Poimenidis talk to me about the film. Panos is the one half of Studio Prokopiou, who long with his partner Phillip, they create photography and art inspired by film, theatre, mythology, the club scene and social media.

Panos was a able to give me a very personal take on the film. Even if his own experiences growing up queer in Greece is 20 plus year later, he could still see the remnants of the topics addressed in Aggelos still lingering within Greek society to this day.

Please note there are spoilers in our discussion.

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