“10+1” Eleven young visual artists make a comment on 80’s Greek cinema
In the line of the tribute “Greek Cinema of the 80’s Decade”, the Panorama of European Cinema, the Cultural Affairs of the Cyprian Embassy in Athens (House of Cyprus) and the Michael Cacoyannis Foundation present the exhibition entitled “Eleven young visual artists make a comment on 80’s Greek Cinema”. The exhibition will be hosted in Michael Cacoyannis Foundation and its duration will be until the November 7th. The inauguration ceremony will take place on Tuesday October 19th at 20:30, just two days before the official premiere of the 23rd Panorama of European Cinema. During the inauguration event Anna Stereopoulou will be performing live on piano.
The 11 artists took over to work individually on one film, creating this way original visual artworks for the exhibition.
The participating artists are:
Athena Agorgianiti – Mania (Giorgos Panousopoulos)
On an ordinary day Zoe, a Greek corporation’s executive, is chosen for promotion, via further training in the US. She feels hanging between two different and important obligations, her family and her career. This situation seems like drowning her, so she decides to take a walk in the park with her daughter. But since they step of a park’s path and start walking through the trees they found themselves trapped in a parallel world haunted by an incarnation of an ancient god.
Giorgos Panousopoulos/ Films
Honeymoon (1979)
A Foolish Love (1981)
Love Me Not? (1989)
Love Knot (1995)
A day in a night (2001)
Testosterone (2004)
Nikos Arvanitis “Day off” (Vasilis Vafeas)
The activities of a husband and a father, in his day off from his job. One day during which he must address some remaining issues, his family, but the extramarital relationship, facing absurd and hilarious situations that turn the day off to a nightmare.
Films/ Vasilis Vafeas
Eastern Periphery (1979)
The Love of Ulysses (1984)
120 Decibel (1987)
The Red Margarita (1990)
Female Conspiracies (2007)
Vangelis Theodoridis – Morning Patrol (Nikos Nikolaidis)
In a post-apocalyptic landscape of destruction, Nikos Nikolaidis directs a lyrical tale of two people falling in love and searching, in vain, for a way out. Within the ruins of a consumerist world, the protagonists try to bare the violence that conquers. The only way to keep hoping is keeping together.
Nikos Nikolaidis/ Films
25/10/1939 – 5/9/2007
Euridice BA 2O37 (1975)
The Thrushes Are Still Singing (1979)
Sweet Bunch (1983), Singapore Sling (1990)
Tha se do stin Kolasi, agapi mou (1999)
The Loser Takes All (2002)
The Zero Years (2005)
Anna Karatza – The Price of Love (Tonia Marketaki)
Corfu, dawn of the 20th century. A pregnant woman disregards the social conventions, refuses to get married and decides to raise the child herself, when she finds out that her partner is a fortune hunter. The film is based in the Costandinos Theotokis book ΄΄The Price and the Money΄΄.
Tonia Marketaki/ Films
28/7/1942-26/7/1994, Greece
O Giannis ki’ o dromos (1967)
John the Violent (1973)
Crystal Nights (1992)
Kyriakos Kousoulidis – The Children of the Swallow (Kostas Vrettakos)
During the Greek Civil War six brother from Helidona village are separated. Three of them join the communist guerrilla army and the others go to the city in search of a better life. When, 40 years later, one of them dies, the others go back to their village. They look back at their lives, memories and self-criticism dominate their conversations.
Emi Palogianidou – Arpa Kolla (Nikos Perakis)
In Arpa Colla, a director and a screenwriter who have just won a prize at a festival are attempting to make film, true to their vision. They turn to producers and sponsor, they get obsessed and dream on, they get disappointed and angry. They realize that filmmaking in Greece is a though thing.
Nikos Perakis/ Films
(11/9/1944), Egypt
Loaf and Camouflage (1984)
Living Dangerously (1987)
Prostatis oikogeneias (1997)
The Bubble (2002)
Loafing and Camouflage: Sirens in the Aegean (2005),
Cool (2007)
Artherapy (2010)
Mpampis Papagiannis – The tree we hurt (Dimos Avdeliodis)
Chios Island in the 1960s. Two boys, classmates at primary school and close friends, fall out just before school is over for the summer. In the sunny Greek summer the boys soon make up and spend a wonderful summer. The carefree days, their friendship, hanging out with their buddies, their childish mischief, and their loves are only disrupted when autumn sets in.
Dimos Avdeliodis/ Films
Chios, 1952
Nike of Samothrace (1990)
The Four Seasons of The Law (1999)
Aliki Pappa – Love Wanders in the Night (Frinda Liappa)
Nikos Sepetzoglou Varieté (Nikos Panayotopoulos)
A director in a creative block is trying to find the story for his next film. Its a story about a man leaving his quiet, bourgeois life behind him and goes in a search for adventure. Varieté is a poetic elegy of moments, filled with melancholic images and humour.
Nikos Panagiotopoulos/ Films
Colors of the Iris (1974)
Idlers of the Fertile Valley (1978)
Melodrama? (1980)
The Woman Who Dreamed (1987)
The Bachelor (1997)
The Edge of Night (2000)
Delivery (2004)
Dying in Athens (2006)
Athens – Istanbul (2008)
Marelia Stagouraki Karkalou (Stavros Tornes)
An old man rides in a taxi. A young man is behind the wheel. A coffin is in the trunk. In the middle of the night the taxi stops at a quarry. The old man drags the young one in a nearby shack where he meets with a decadent woman, Karkalou. The young man dances with her under the music of Louis Armstrong and then they leave on a small boat to a trip down memory lane. Their voyage ends back in the same quarry where it began.
Stavros Tornes/ Films
Athens, 1932-1988
Coatti (1977),
Balamos (1982),
Karkalou (1984),
Danilo Treles: The Famed Andalusian Musician (1985),
Danilo Treles: The Famed Andalusian Musician (1987).
