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 […]
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 […]