Radical queer poetics for Palestine
Against the pinkwashing and artwashing practices of Israel and major Greek institutions, we are joining in solidarity the worldwide monthlong celebration of Palestinian culture and heritage.
Athenian Horror(s)
Our guests will read on themes such as: urban legends, spooky institutions, gentrification as horror, post-apocalyptic scenarios, existential dread, queer horror, the devil and his friends, relationships, nightmares, ghost stories, goosebumps, haunted buildings, cults, creepy folx, dark rooms, re-appropriation of monsters, pandemics and biological hazards.
Open Secret Cracked Open and Expanded
Open Secret Cracked Open and Expanded includes a selection from the series with 3 special additions shown for the first time ever in attendance of 2 of the directors!!!
Hollow Eve at LALA
In a rare chance to see their work in Athens, Hollow Eve will present and discuss selections from their videos, offering an intimate look into the creative process and the political urgency behind their art.
Women’s experimental film & video: abstraction & visual poetry (1929-1996)
This Sunday we start with films around representational abstraction and visual poetry. Within the history of experimental film, non-representational and fragmentary imagery are seen a way to reach new communicative possibilities and non-logocentric discourses; women’s abstract film work has been at the forefront of this.
Titled mourning progress 1,7,1000
An evening showcasing the work-in-progress film and performance by Spyros Patsouras — and his temporary (?) farewell to Athens.
Itziar Barrio & Sarah Anderson
We are super happy about our current residents at LALA, interdisciplinary artists Itziar Barrio and Sarah Anderson!
Klappe by Jürgen Brüning with Q&A
On May 18th we are super happy to host Jürgen Brüning for the second time in LALA!
Amygdaliá by Christina Phoebe with Q&A
The director, Christina Phoebe, together with the film’s co-protagonists Lauretta Macauley and Gerta Dyle, will be at LALA to present the film and have a discussion and some music in a dj set after the screening.
✞✞✞ QUEERTAFIOS 2 ✞✞✞
after the first part of Queertafios at AMOQA in 2016, it returns to LALA 9 years later in the post-apocalyptic TODAY ♆♆♆♆♆♆♆♆♆♆♆♆♆♆♆♆♆♆♆♆♆♆♆♆ occult films, byzantine music, new age, christian-communism, drag show, avant-garde, blood, tarot, satanic, inter-activists, fog, purifying snake oils, eggs, sandikai, incense, drones, carols, furby, candles, poetry, magick, illuminati, diamanda, squid-lent ☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭ Screening of […]