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 […]
Queer Film Poems
Your beloved Perverts Cine Club returns with another screening of rare experimental gems. This time we will focus on queer ‘film poems’ from the 50s through the 90s. Audiovisual play, synesthesia textures, spoken word diaries, superimpositions, scribbled intertitles and dialectical editing are some of the poetic storytelling methodologies presented in these idiosyncratic, multifaceted films. Doors […]
Real/Fake/Drag/Meat – Sophia Efstathiou & Chicks on Speed
If drag exposes the performativity/artificiality of gender can plant-based meats produce new definitions of ‘realness’ when it comes to food? Learning from queer and feminist politics, Real/Fake/Drag/Meat messes with definitions of ‘natural’ and ‘fake’ while maintaining a playful attitude. LALA presents the artistic research collaboration between Chicks on Speed and the project MEATigation, led by […]
Betty / Nana: Trans Women Film Portaits
ΛΑΛΑ presents a screening of two historical/archival portrait films of trans women in Greece.
Kenneth Anger: Queer Cinema Pioneer
The Perverts Cine Club (P.C.C.) at ΛΑΛΑ presents a screening of short films by Kenneth Anger who passed away last month. Arguably considered the grandfather of queer cinema, Anger’s uncompromising vision, combining an experimental attitude towards narrative and a luscious baroque camp aesthetic, still appears as luminary and mind-blowing today, a showcase of what queer cinema in the deepest sense can be.
Tribute to dada artist and pioneer Hannah Höch!
On May 28th LALA celebrates the life and work of our beloved Dadaist and pioneer of feminist artHannah Höch, 45 years after her death.Höch’s work put forward a gender dimension and a very important question regarding the male dominated Dadaist project and is considered by now a necessary political note for understanding the early avant-garde. […]
TROUBLE by Penelope Buitenhuis
Continuing the series of screenings on the theme of gentrification, a series that started during Dreamland Film Festival with the film Days, ΛΑΛΑ presents the first Athens screening of quintessential Berlin film and an underground classic, Trouble by Penelope Buitenhuis, produced by our beloved Jürgen Brüning, with a diverse cast and a crew consisting predominantly […]