Rebirthing Ourselves: A User’s Manual (+ Rebirth-day party!)
This event brings together participants to present performances and videos on the theme of rebirthing yourself after a period of change or trauma.
Church of the Abnormal Vol.2: Elevator Girls in Bondage
We continue the series with a screening of Michael Kalmen’s super-rare cult feature Elevator Gils in Bondage (1972, 56’), featuring the legendary San Francisco anarchist drag troupe the Cockettes!
Church of the Abnormal Vol.1: Freak Orlando
LALA’s new Sunday film service presents screenings of narrative movie oddities to enjoy with popcorn and drinks! Come join us for queer camp weirdo beauties, surrealist avant-garde masterpieces, offbeat dark comedies, anarchic situationist underground film and video. An evening of mutant reverence! We kick of the series with a screening of Ulrike Ottinger’s Freak Orlando […]
The Early Works of Cheryl Dunye
LALA and Dreamland present some of the early works by Cheryl Dunye for the first time in Athens, with the presence of the filmmaker herself!!!
H(E)AVENS
H(E)AVENS – A four-day festival on the role of private foundations in the field of culture ≡ Athens, 7-10 December 2023
Fallschirmseide
LALA presents the reading of the book Fallschirmseide/Μετάξι Αλεξίπτωτων (Parachute silk), which was published in both German and Greek in 2021 by Spector Books in Leipzig.
Nadir Sönmez – Research on LGBTI+ activism and arts in the Kurdish town of Diyarbakır
Nadir Sönmez encountered activists, journalists and artists in Diyarbakır to research LGBTI+ activism in the city.
Between Presence & Absence
Responding to the invitation of the curator of the exhibition “outraged by pleasure”, Nadja Argyropoulou, LALA presents an event-collage of spoken word, video and performance, based on memory/forgetting, fragments, archives and dreams, with an emphasis on queer trauma, personal loss and the outsider footnotes of history. The event is dedicated to the memory of activist and drag performer Zackie Oh and queer filmmaker and performer Jack Smith. It is also the culmination and final event of the first curatorial phase / first cycle in the story of LALA.
Psychedelic Films & Expanded Cinema
LALA and the Perverts Cine Club, in collaboration with The Dream Palace present a screening of rarely seen psychedelic films from the 50s, 60s and 70s.
Jackals & Fireflies screening + Q&A with Eva H.D. and Charlie Kaufman
Current LALA resident Eva H.D. presents “Jackals & Fireflies”, a 20-minute city suite, a poetic cinematic essay, directed by Charlie Kaufman and written and performed by Eva herself. A woman wanders the streets of New York City, takes buses and trains, sits in bars and coffee shops, experiencing the city’s diverse neighborhoods, while thinking about […]