A flight attendant tries to conceal physical and emotional pain with a coat of bright-red lipstick, in Thanasis Neofotistos’s short film.
In the catalogue of common nightmares, teeth provide some of the most potent imagery. Primal to our mechanisms of speech and sustenance, they also embody a certain vulnerability, anxiety; memento mori, the nearest thing to our own skulls most of us ever see. Carl Jung claimed that, symbolically, losing teeth indicates a loss of “grip,” or control, “a fear of death or a somewhat dangerous communication with the unconscious.
It makes a kind of sense, then, that the idea for the unnerving short film “AIRHOSTESS-737” came to its creator, Thanasis Neofotistos, in a dream. The film’s protagonist, Vanina, struggles to perform her job as a flight attendant while enduring the pain and perceived humiliation of adult braces.
Neofotistos considers “AIRHOSTESS-737” the last installment of a trilogy that also includes his shorts “Patision Avenue,” in which a woman’s parental responsibilities and career aspirations clash, and “Route-3,” about a shy teen-ager afraid to act on his attraction to a fellow tram rider.
That hard-won peace shines through the film’s closing scene: its phantasmagoric climax, which reads as both a brush with death and a rebirth, leaves Vanina dishevelled, appearing finally at ease. She looks directly into the camera and, for the first time, really smiles.
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