15 & 29 november
Summer Sun and Winter Sky
Collection of Greek shorts
NL Vijf korte films van drie Griekse regisseurs (Kleoniki Stanich, Anna-Maria Pinaka, Christina Maliariti) die verschillende, maar verrassend vergelijkbare verhalen en gevoelens beschrijven. De tweede cyclus van het programma 'Griekse filmmakers in Nederland' vindt plaats en is de perfecte gelegenheid om de Griekse cinema te verkennen, evenals de cultuur en realiteit die zich momenteel afspeelt. Het gesprek wordt geleid door curator Dimitra Alexiou en de bar is open zolang het gesprek duurt, onder het genot van de gebruikelijke Griekse drank. Tot dan!
EN Five short films by three Greek directors (Kleoniki Stanich, Anna-Maria Pinaka,Christina Maliariti) that describe different, but surprisingly similar stories and feelings. The second cycle of the programme ‘Greek filmmakers in the Netherlands’ is taking place, and it is the perfect opportunity to explore Greek cinema, as well as the culture and reality that is happening right now. The discussion will be moderated by curator Dimitra Alexiou and the bar will be open for as long as the discussion goes with the usual Greek spirits as well. See you there!
Zaterdag 15 november, 20:30
Zaterdag 29 november, 20:30
CONTEMPORARY
Summer Sun and Winter Sky – collection of Greek shorts
Various | 2021-2025 | Greece, NL | 50’ | EN subtitles
Bycatch (2021)
Bycatch is a video developed through footage of the artist’s grandmother, and herself, collected over five years. The making and gathering of the video-clips started through a wish to preserve the grandmother’s memory, to record her long enough before she dies. Assembling the clips, gradually became an exploration of how one set of images pre-determines or presupposes a meaning for a series of images that follow, and also of transgenerational transmissions and identity shifts. Body parts, events, animals and emotions are roughly stitched together, in a never-conclusive conversation between juxtaposing signifiers, where forms fluctuate between the mythical, the debased, the untouchable, the common, coming into choreographies of togetherness and of separation.
Transworld Love (2025)
Four months after her husband died, a Cretan widow left her house and moved in with her daughter in Athens. One month later, her granddaughter visited the closed house and found herself a bittersweet surprise that her grandma had left behind.
Past Where The Sky Turns (2025)
A dream-like grunge romance, reaching back to experiences of being a queer teenager in the 90s. A princess flies over Thessaloniki, lands in the city, roams the streets, waving hello and dancing in dark alleyways. She enters a bar where she meets another woman. They flirt on the dance floor, eventually step out holding hands, and kiss laying on the street. Finding themselves in a darker space, the princess licks the body of her lover, and eventually falls in an ecstatic punk orgasm. The video was commissioned by ROZENSTRAAT a rose is a rose is a rose, in the context of Pinaka’s exhibition She Keeps Them Warm With Her Skirt (2025), exploring seemingly contradictory iconic representations of femininity and entanglements between the magical and the mundane.
Home (2023)
Taking Southern European migrations towards Europe’s North as a point of departure, this short film explores the notion of home and how it gets transformed as bodies encounter experiences of dislocation, fragmentation and precarity. Throughout a splitted subject who takes the form of two (Southern European) female autobiographical voices, this film investigates how bodies may resist fragmentation and materialize home by building feminist alliances and (re)discovering hope in shared intimacy.
Arrival (2023)
A reflection on the predicament of confinement within the domestic environment, stemming from found correspondence of a woman, dating between 1975 and 1980. Through shared points of reference and the embodiment of the above-mentioned state, the process of this work became an intergenerational dialogue with the stranger character. However, in Arrival, the narrative departs from the archived and imagines rather than a state of paralysis, the discontinuation of a cycle. Upon the character’s decision to leave her home and embark on a journey to an archipelago nearby, the island of her destination sucks her in as she merges into the wind.