Πειραματικό/Experimental, Διευρυμένος κινηματογράφος/Expanded

cinema, Ελλάδα/Greece, 1975, 97 ́, 35mm, Έγχρ./Color, Με ήχο/Sound

In Vio-grafia—with the pioneering use of the rostrum camera, editing and color—the gravures of Chumy Chumez, provide a basis on which a narrative commentary and music are poetically correlated. A confession of the historical and mythic subject of our era and world is reconstituted, of a world which is dominated both by the spectacle and the audiovisual. The film introduced to Greece expanded cinema, since in itself it takes the form of a Lamposcope projection—a kind of a projector of painted glass slides from the 19th century—and with the simultaneous use of a unique frame, of 1:2.75 dimensions.

Σκηνοθεσία/Direction: Θανάσης Ρεντζής
Σενάριο/Screenplay: Θανάσης Ρεντζής (βασισμένo στα κολλάζ από γκραβούρες του Chumy Chumez)
Φωτογραφία/ Cinematography: Άγγελος Χατζηανδρέου, Χρήστος Μάγκος
Μοντάζ/Editing: Θανάσης Ρεντζής
Μουσική/Music: Σταμάτης Σπανουδάκης
Αφήγηση/Narration: Γιώργος Κυρίτσης
Παραγωγή/ Production: Filmogram
Πηγή κόπιας/ Print source: Θανάσης Ρεντζής

Presentation from the director 

Μυθοπλασία/Fiction, Ελλάδα/Greece, 1985, 85 ́

DCP, Έγχρ./Color, Με ήχο/Sound

This experimental film is about the representation and alternative views related to metaphors for the passage of time, while also functioning as a study on the origin and nature of images. The visual syntheses are assembled with the voices of the woman that gives birth and dies, and is torn by the conflicts inhabiting her body. According to Angelidi, a pioneer of anti-patriarchal poetic cinema: “The film presents an expanded moment. An in-between moment, where memories flow simultaneously, and their consistency has the arbitrariness and exactness of the sequence of a dream. The entire film is a filmed dream”.

Σκηνοθεσία/Direction: Αντουανέττα Αγγελίδη
Σενάριο/Screenplay: Αντουανέττα Αγγελίδη, Κλαίρη Μιτσοτάκη
Φωτογραφία/ Cinematography: Σταύρος Χασάπης
Μοντάζ/Editing: Αντώνης Τέμπος
Μουσική/Music: Γιώργος Απέργης
Ηθοποιοί/Cast: Jany Gastaldi, Μάγια Λυμπεροπούλου, Αννίτα Σαντοριναίου, Μartine Viard, Κλαίρη Μιρτσέκη, Αριέττα Μουτούση, Σταύρος Τορνές
Παραγωγή/ Production: Αντουανέττα Αγγελίδη
Πηγή κόπιας/Print source: Αντουανέττα Αγγελίδη

Presentation from the director

* Suitable for English speaking audience

Μυθοπλασία/Fiction, Ελλάδα/Greece, 2010, 20 ́ DCP, Έγχρ./color, Με ήχο/sound

Fragments of personal experiences. A notebook of memories. Family photographs, from texts abandoned which I kept. Relics. Heirlooms. Sailing to Aegina -the first images, the sea, clutching the book of verses En Leuko. “It’s the girl” the poet talks about “with a jug in her hand”. Milta or the Archetype. It’s ‘Milta’, the women of the Mediterranean, it’s the ‘Milta’ of the sea, of memory and of poetry. Predominantly the poetry of the word, but also of the image. So I surrendered myself to my memories, to the house, to the book, to the street. Summer— it was hot, as The Garden Entered the Sea. The time has come to offer them to you, like Water on the table. (Vouvoula Skoura, 2010)

Σενάριο-Σκηνοθεσία/Screenplay- Direction: Βουβούλα Σκούρα
Φωτογραφία/Cinematography: Γιάννης Σαρηγιάννης
Μοντάζ/Editing: Γιάννης Νταρίδης
Μουσική/Music: Νίκος Παπαδογούλας
Ηθοποιοί/ Cast: Κωνσταντίνα Τάκαλου, στο ρόλο των γυναικών της Μεσογείου
Αφήγηση/Narration: Χρόνης Παυλίδης, Μιχάλης Ελευθερίου
Παραγωγή/Production: Περιφέρεια Βορείου Αιγαίου σε συνεργασία με το Υπουργείο Πολιτισμού και Τουρισμού
Πηγή κόπιας/Print source: Βουβούλα Σκούρα

*Screening along with the film “Athens, return to the Acropolis”

Presentation from the director

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Ντοκιμαντέρ/Documentary, Ελλάδα/Greece, 1983, 43 ́ DCP, Έγχρωμη/Color, Με ήχο/Sound

The auteur Theo Angelopoulos, after his cinematic journeys in the province and the traumatic Greek history, returned to his city of birth and to documentary, in the form of a poetic diary. The documentary was originally produced for a television series on European capitals. With scenes from his previous works and with modern Greek poetry and music, he created a portrait “of a different Athens, the Athens of traumatic history and personal myth, the Athens of the director’s past and present.

Σκηνοθεσία/Direction: Θόδωρος Αγγελόπουλος
Σενάριο/Screenplay: Κώστας Ταχτσής (κείμενο), Θόδωρος Αγγελόπουλος , Κώστας Ρεσβάνης (ιδέα)
Φωτογραφία/Cinematography: Γιώργος Αρβανίτης
Μοντάζ/Editing: Γιώργος Τριανταφύλλου
Μουσική/Music: Μάνος Χατζιδάκις, Λουκιανός Κηλαηδόνης, Διονύσης Σαββόπουλος, Μίκης Θεοδωράκης
Ηθοποιοί/Cast: Γιώργος Αλεξίου, Κώστας Αρζόγλου και Πέτρος Φυσσούν (αφηγητές), Κώστας Μελεούνης, Νίκη Μυριδάκη, Γιώργος Χατζηιωάννου
Παραγωγή/Production: Θόδωρος Αγγελόπουλος, για την ΕΡΤ και την Trans World Film
Πηγή κόπιας/ Print source: Κοινωνία Κληρονόμων Θόδωρου Αγγελόπουλου

*Screening along with the film “Water on table ∙ Homage to Odysseas Elytis”

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Μυθοπλασία/Fiction, Ελλάδα/Greece, 1956, 107 ́ 35mm, α/μ/b&w, Με ήχο/sound

After his first neorealist film Magic City (1954), Koundouros brings to Greece the auteur cinema, which as Aglaia Mitropoulou notes, is about the ability to “work outside commercialized production and develop a personal expression”. The film based on the deadly impersonation of a timid civil servant to big shot of the Athenian underworld, articulates the tradition of Greek rembetiko with rebellion, which in the case of post-civil war Greece, hinted to an oppositional public sphere.

Σκηνοθεσία/Direction: Νίκος Κούνδουρος
Σενάριο/Screenplay: Ιάκωβος Καμπανέλλης
Φωτογραφία/ Cinematography: Κώστας Θεοδωρίδης
Μοντάζ/Editing: Νίκος Κούνδουρος, Γιώργος Τσαουλής
Μουσική/Music: Μάνος Χατζιδάκις
Ηθοποιοί/Cast: Ντίνος Ηλιόπουλος, Μαργαρίτα Παπαγεωργίου, Θανάσης Βεγγος, Ανδρέας Ντούζος Αλέκος Τζανετάκος
Παραγωγή/Production: Athens Film Company
Πηγή κόπιας/ Print source: Ταινιοθήκη της Ελλάδος

Presentation from the curator of the tribute, Maria Komninos 

Πειραματικό/Experimental, Ελλάδα/Greece, 1974, 90′, 35mm, Έγχρ./Color, Χωρίς ήχo/Silent

According to the philosopher and his close friend Savvas Michail, Sfikas has realized Eisenstein’s dream to film Marx’s Capital: “The Model however is not the case that a subject-content is cinematically covered with external veils. There is the revelation of content. The singular shot of the film becomes the microcosm, the molecular form of capitalism, with its driving contradictions”. Weaved with the form of cinematic time, Sfikas, illustrates, without didacticism and metaphysics, that it is our own personal time that has become alienated and thus transformed to “the law of value” that Marx discovered.

Σκηνοθεσία/Direction: Κώστας Σφήκας
Σενάριο/Screenplay: Κώστας Σφήκας, με τη βοήθεια του Θάνου Γραμμένου
Φωτογραφία/ Cinematography: Γιώργος Καβάγιας
Παραγωγή/Production Γιώργος Παπαλιός, Αννα Σφήκα, Σύγχρονος Κινηματογράφος
Πηγή κόπιας/Print source: Τάκης Σασλίδης