Barbara Hammer: Short Films
ΛΑΛΑ and the Perverts Cine Club (PCC) present a screening of not previously seen in Athens short films by the pioneer of queer cinema, Barbara Hammer, who passed away in 2019. Barbara Hammer’s work spans over four decades and is in itself an archive of queer history. Her oeuvre shifts between sensitive, poetic celluloid investigations […]
Ron Athey – short films at LALA
Legendary body performance artist Ron Athey in a unique evening at LALA will share with us a few short films from his archives. There will be a Q&A session afterward with Angel Torticollis
Dreamland Film Festival
Dreamland is a new festival, aiming to bring to the surface creators of experimental, otherworldly and avant-garde cinema, so that the audience can have a chance to look at hidden treasures of cinematic history, but also contemporary films. Inspired by the work of Jack Smith, a filmmaker, photographer and performer who was active between the […]
Films & discussion with Jürgen Brüning
Jürgen Brüning is a Berlin-based film producer and director. Helming projects by queer luminaries such as Dennis Cooper, Cheryl Dunye, Thunska Pansittivorakul, G.B. Jones, Shu Lea Cheang, Maria Beatty, Emilie Jouvet, Lior Shamriz, and Ela Troyano, Brüning produced Bruce LaBruce’s debut feature, No Skin Off My Ass and most of the filmmaker’s subsequent projects. We […]
Tribute to Carolee Schneemann
ΛΑΛΑ and the Perverts Cine Club (PCC) proudly present a tribute night to the goddess of multimedia performance art, Carolee Schneemann. The evening will kick off with a screening of a brand new copy of Schneemann’s landmark silent short Fuses, with live soundtrack composed for this event by Kleitos Kyriakides, as well as documentation of […]
¯\_W*o*я*d*S_/¯ vol.2: Tender Buttons
We continue with the second part of our series of events/happenings, in which ΛΑΛΑ and friends explore multimedia uses of poetic language, such as spoken word, videopoetry, concrete and visual poetry, experimental song and opera, performance, digital cybertext and memes, typography, artists books, etc. In the second installment of the series, we will focus on […]
Eva Stefani “Nights & Days of Dimitra K” with Q&A
ΛΑΛΑ hosts the work of Eva Stefani, with a screening of “The Box” (2004) and “Days and Nights of Dimitra K” (2021). We will be joined by Eva and Dimitra who will discuss with Fil Ieropoulos the intricacies of creating a documentary, both from the perspective of the filmmaker and the subject of the film. […]
Me, myself and Generative AI: a discussion
GTP-3, DALL-3, Stable Diffusion – is AI stealing our art? The debate is on. Some Artists refuse to provide data to feed the AI so that it won’t plagiarize their artwork and steal their muse- could this be a tad bit overreacting? Can we not see AI as another new tool to enhance our creative […]
¯\_W*o*я*d*S_/¯ vol.1: Grapefruit (⦿ᴥ⦿)
In this new series of happenings, ΛΑΛΑ and friends explore multimedia uses of poetic language, such as spoken word, videopoetry, concrete and visual poetry, experimental song and opera, performance, digital cybertext and memes, typography, artists books, etc. In the first event of the series we will focus on and be influenced by Yoko Ono’s book […]
This Is Not A Film: Local Queer Surrealists
ΛΑΛΑ and The Perverts Cine Club (P.C.C.) present a series of films by underground queer avant-garde filmmakers, performers and video artists whose work deals in a surreal, dadaist and deconstructing way with gender identity complexities, psychoanalytic traumas and the burden of greekness. The films showcased subvert reality and the rules of filmmaking by staging absurdist […]