✞✞✞ QUEERTAFIOS III ✞✞✞
Impromptu happening of religious worship and paganism. Occult films, exorcisms, third eye, mount-athos lo-fi, christian-communism, drag show, avant-garde, entrails, deposition, satanic, inter-activists, fog, purifying snake oils, libidinous, sandikai, incense, drones, carols, lent-core, candles, poetry, illuminati, diamanda, chaos magick
Women’s experimental film & video: structuralism & language (1959-2017)
This week we focus on structuralism, film languages, text as image, film and video as materials. Within the history of women’s experimental film, formal innovation and the disruption of cinematic convention often intertwines with body politics and gender analysis.
AVANT-CAT: Feline experimental films
The Perverts Cine Club invites you to a purr-fect screening featuring 13 experimental films about, with, (for?), portraying, discussing cats. Indulge in two hours of rare films that spun 50 years from 1944 to 1993 about our beloved hairy monsters.
Mr. Ethnika Mpoutia – Memorial
Mr. Ethnika Mpoutia(Greece’s very own “national thighs”)
We invite you to a memorial service for our beloved Giorgos Stavropoulos this Sunday 21/12 at 20:00 at LALA, Derigny 39!
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.