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Αποθήκη Δ’Aίθουσα “TΩNIA ΜΑΡΚΕΤΑΚΗ”, Αποθήκη Δ’
Ημερομηνία: 14 Οκτωβρίου 2023
ΕΙΣΙΤΗΡΙΑ ΓΙΑ ΤΙΣ ΠΡΟΒΟΛΕΣ ΣΤΗΝ ΑΠΟΘΗΚΗ Δ, ΛΙΜΑΝΙ:
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WENDIGO
Félix Bouffard-Dumas, Canada
14′
Through an exploded mosaic, the film proposes an experimental interpretation between the Wendigo’s legend and the Quebecers’ insecurities of their identity.
Director Biography – Félix Bouffard-Dumas
Degree holder in cinema (specialization in editing) from UQÀM university, Félix Bouffard-Dumas begins his career as an editor and director of short films.
FABRIK
Sverre Aune, Germany
19′
Shot entirely in Digital Infrared, FABRIK follows a lone humanoid creature, fighting for survival in a forsaken world – living off oil-spills from self-operating factories. Her quest for oil takes her across the desert and into an unknown world of steam and machines.
Director Biography – Sverre Aune
Sverre Aune was born in Trondheim, Norway, in 1994.
Growing up in the Norwegian countryside, he started experimenting with film and video by himself at an early age, and at 19 he moved to Denmark to study at European Film College. A year later he moved to Berlin to finish a BA in Practical Filmmaking at MET Film School Berlin. He joined the German Film and Television Academy Berlin in 2017, where he’s currently studying Film Directing. As well as directing, Sverre works as an Editor, co-owns a film club, co-hosts a film podcast and writes most of his own scripts himself.~
DEMI-GODDESSES
Martin Gerigk, Germany
7′
‘Demi-Goddesses’ is the second essay about still dominant dark aspects of our modern society. It is conceived as a surreal anti-patriarchal thought experiment and raises important questions about gender, power, and social change, prompting us to reflect on how historical patterns of discrimination and oppression might be either repeated or overcome in a reversed gendered world. It challenges the viewer to confront their own assumptions and biases, and to consider the possibilities of a more equitable society.
Overall, the intention of the film is that it will spark conversations and inspire the viewer to imagine a world where gender is not a limiting factor. At best, the audience will leave the theater with a greater awareness of the issues and a sense of possibility for a just future.
Director Biography – Martin Gerigk
Martin Gerigk (*1972) is a composer of contemporary music. His repertoire includes compositions for orchestra and chamber music, as well as several solo concertos. His compositions are performed nationally and internationally including in Korea, Japan, USA, England, Finland, Austria and Switzerland. In this context he works together with renowned international soloists and ensembles.
In addition to his compositional work he is known for his remarkable audiovisual art and experimental films which focus on inherent synesthetic connections of sound and visual perceptions. Besides creating interwoven aural and visual landscapes of music, nature sounds and video sequences one important aspect of his art is the illustration of the hidden poetry of nature phenomena and sciences.
His experimental films won several international prizes and were screened at noted festivals like Asolo Film Festival, International Digital Arts Festival Videoformes, Girona Film Festival, Salento International Film Festival, Columbus International Film & Animation Festival, USA Film Festival, New Jersey Film Festival, Sidney International Film Festival, Fargo Film Festival, Sherman Oaks Film Festival, Canberra Short Film Festival, Film and Video Poetry Symposium Los Angeles, Syracuse Film Festival or ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival.
I KILLED YOU A DOZEN TIMES
Kris De Meester, Belgium
6′
I killed you a dozen times, but you won’t go away. Maybe it’s because you’ve killed me first. Out in the cold, on a strange new globe.
“I Killed You a Dozen Times” immerses viewers in a captivating exploration of the aftermath of a traumatic breakup. The protagonist, driven to erase the other person from their existence, finds themselves exiled to a chilling and unfamiliar realm. As they confront the relentless echoes of their pain, the boundaries between reality and imagination blur, creating a surreal and introspective experience.
“I Killed You a Dozen Times utilizes its title as a refrain, spoken by the narrator, as they bemoan a fruitless relationship. The film plays with the audience’s senses, both audibly and visually, keeping them constantly on edge. The camera voyeuristically passes over partially clothed women, lying motionless on the floor. The women, exposed and fragile, are a visualization of the emotional toll endured by the narrator. Moreover, the soundtrack emits a constant whirr, creating a palpable tension that’s never broken. Again, this mirrors the narrator’s perpetual, unanswered inquiry into why. All in all, the film exhibits an equal parts disturbing and eye-opening look at the post-breakup healing process. The combination of violent imagery, poignant narration, and acute sound design construct a unique, tangible representation of one’s incorporeal inner struggle.”
Shane McKevitt – Venice Film Week
“I Killed You a Dozen Times expertly uses the power of visual language and sound to communicate complex emotions and experiences. Through its striking imagery and sound design, together with the emotive poetry recited by the narrator, the film masterfully portrays the agony and emotional struggles stem from toxic relationships, a subject that is often challenging to express in words. The film’s ability to vividly visualize and depict such complex emotions is a testament to its remarkable use of audio-visual storytelling.”
Jane Ching – Sundance Film Festival Hong Kong, Hong Kong Arthouse Film Festival
Director Biography – Kris De Meester
Kris De Meester is a director, producer and casting director. He started his career in 1990, taking on different roles with many of the film industry’s finest. Over the decades, he has teamed up with numerous award-winning directors. Such including Lars von Trier, Terence Davies, Thomas Vinterberg, Timo Vuorensola, Wolfgang Becker, Philippe Grandrieux, and Koen Mortier.
SANAA, SEDUCTRESS OF STRANGERS
Jan Eilhardt, Germany
3′
Sanaa has been working as a city guide in Berlin-Wedding for years. But work alone is not enough for her. She is stubborn and trans. Her passion for the migrant men in the neighborhood keeps her really on her toes.
Director Biography – Jan Eilhardt
Jan Eilhardt studied film and performance art in Hamburg, Germany. Since then their features and short films have been shown at international film festivals, in cinemas, museums and galleries. Jan’s works incorporate elements of experimental and arthouse film while seeking to explore queer themes. This year Jan’s autobiographical feature ‘Janine Moves to the Country’ will be released.
ALL EFFORT OF MEN
Jean-Gabriel Périot, France
13′
Whaling has been around for centuries. It seems the fruit of man’s violence, destroying himself by destroying nature. Accompanying the rise of capitalism, the practice survives today, reflecting humans’ eternal destructiveness of nature and the creatures unable to resist them.
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BIRDS DON’T LOOK THROUGH THE WINDOWS
Eirini Tampasouli, Greece
7′
If I was a bird, I would look through the windows of the flats all the time. But they choose not to do so. A film partly created in the Academy of Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival.
Director Biography – Eirini Tampasouli
Eirini Tampasouli is a visual artist and director based in Athens.
She studied medicine at National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
and she is currently studying at Athens School of Fine Arts (MA in Digital Arts).
She is working in means like photography,
video and sound while she has finished several short films and one middle length, screened in festivals around the world.
THE MECHANICS OF LIQUIDS
Gala Hernández López, France
30′
In 2018, an incel called Anathematic Anarchist posted a suicide letter on Reddit entitled “America is responsible for my death”. The Mechanics of Fluids is an attempt to find answers to his words. A virtual drift through the internet in search of his digital traces that ends up being an inner journey between our connected solitudes.
Director Biography – Gala Hernández López
Artist filmmaker and researcher based in Paris and Berlin.
She is a contractual PhD Candidate in Aesthetics, Sciences and Technologies of Arts at Paris VIII – Vincennes Saint-Denis University, ESTCA laboratory. Her research-creation projet reflects on the screen recording as a media in the post-internet era. She also teaches film studies, filmmaker’s writings and amateur aesthetics at Paris 8 University. She co-founded and co-directs the research-creation association After Social Networks. She is currently a visiting PhD researcher at the Filmuniversität Babelsberg Konrad Wolf (Germany). In 2022, she was the recipient of a doctoral research scholarship by the German DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst).
Her film La Mécanique des fluides is supported by the CNC – DICRéAM and the EUR ArTeC. She has edited several issues of journals (Contratexto, Images Secondes), published in international academic journals (Interfaces, Digital War, Marges, Augenblick) and participated in collective works, such as Captures d’écran (Yellow Now, 2022) or L’art tout contre la machine (Hermann, 2021). She is currently coordinating a major on open source counter-investigations for the journal Multitudes.
Her work combines interdisciplinary research with the production of audiovisual artistic forms about the processes of individuation and the new modes of subjectivation produced specifically by computational digital capitalism. Particularly interested in approaching from a feminist, poetic and critical prism the discourses and imaginaries that circulate in eminently masculine online communities, her mid-length film La Mécanique des fluides is the first of a series of experimental audiovisual essays that will be followed by Cashflow Quadrant, both proposing a reflection on the politics of the representation of contemporary masculinity on the internet in its articulation to algorithms and digital flows of data, signs and capital.
SEARCHING FOR UTOPIA
Sotiris Petridis, Greece
5′
A woman tries to study the structure of the modern utopia offered by digital life, but her narrative hides personal traumas..
Director Biography – Sotiris Petridis
Sotiris Petridis is a freelance filmmaker from Greece, with several short films, a feature film and selected audiovisual spots in his filmography. He is a member of the Greek Film Academy, a member of the European Film Academy, and a member of the Greek Screenwriters Guild. His films have been screened around the world and awarded by several highly esteemed international film festivals.
More specifically, his filmography includes award-winning films such as The Balloon (2013), e-Social (2015) White Collar (2016), #NotAlone (2017), 9023 (2017) and Re-Live (2019). His films have traveled to over 40 countries and 400 International Film Festivals, winning a plethora of awards, with the most recent to be Re-Live’s Best Sci-Fi Film Award from Comic-Con International (San Diego, USA).
His first feature film (as a screenwriter and a producer), Scopophilia (2018), premiered at Thessaloniki International Film Festival, where it won the Special Youth Jury Award. The film continued its success, while it has received the Maryland International Film Festival’s Best Foreign Language Film Award. Scopophilia has 16 official selections at film festivals worldwide, and in February 2019, the film was screened in Greek cinemas.
Finally, he is an adjunct professor of screenwriting at Hellenic Open University, while he has written a plethora of academic books and articles on cinema and audiovisual narrative.
THE HOUSE WITH NO DOORS
Marina Akarepi, United Kingdom
7′
A man gets lost in the woods and is attacked by various monsters. As he desperately tries to escape he realises he is turning into a monster himself.
Director Biography – Marina Akarepi
Marina Akarepi was born in Athens. She started painting and playing music from a very young age. Her education on classical art, mythology and theatre ignited her passion for storytelling and she soon fell in love with conceptual art and film.
She studied Audio and Visual Arts and worked as a writer for independent magazine 3pointmagazine.gr, where she introduced a cinema- themed column, and later published a poetry collection.
Marina is currently residing in the UK, where she studied Film Production and made her directorial debut with the experimental short film The House With No Doors. She is currently completing a MA in Visual Anthropology at the University of Manchester.
She is a writer, musician, poet, filmmaker and animal rights activist.
MY MOTHER’S DOWRY AGREEMENT
Penny Theodoros Kissa, Greece
13′
What will happen if the Greek father-in-law, an Icelandic cod importer, announces to his future son-in-law that he is unable to offer him a dowry due to financial difficulties?
Will this prevent the marriage from happening or will the groom accept the strangest deal?
Director Biography – Penny Theodoros Kissa
Art has always been an integral part of my life.
Although professionally I pursued a career as an IT systems analyst.
I have attended various seminars on the art cinematography and had the pleasure to participate in the creation of several films.
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TO READ THEM POEMS
Alexis Chatzigiannis, Greece
24′
A road trip with a truck driver and a poet leads them to a grotesque and risky poetry slam. But its Christmas and miracles happen.
Born and raised in Athens. Studied Documentary in the University of Aegean. Has directed a lot of documentaries screened in festivals & greek TV and also short fiction films screened in festivals all over the world. To read them poems is his last film.
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LITERATURE AND CINEMA
A discussion and Q & A with:
Giorgos Skampardonis, Maria Kenanidou and Aris Dimokidis
appr. 30′
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LITTLE SPARTACUS
Sara Ganem, France
28′
Between Eastern blocks and cherry brandies, I navigate around the Danube with Spartacus, my Greek speaking bicycle. But the world is not big enough to drown my pain.
Director Biography – Sara Ganem
After years of cinema and acting studies, Sara Ganem doesn’t find any work. So she takes her camera and travel alone, goes on writing aside the day jobs, and when she gets completely lost, her first movie is finally done.
EUROPEAN MAN…AMERICAN BEACH
Rex Shannon, United States
7′
A European man goes naked to an American beach. A clothed American beachgoer takes offense and a brawl ensues.
Director Biography – Rex Shannon
Rex Shannon began his artistic career as a fiction writer and literary scholar. His first three creative productions were a short story called “Come Up Here” published in Alaska Quarterly Review, an academic article on James Joyce’s “Ulysses” published in Joyce Studies Annual, and an internet novel published on web3. Since 2022, Rex has turned his narrative productions to film. “European Man…American Beach” is his first narrative short: a drama/comedy about a brawl between a naked European and an American who’s deeply offended by the European’s nudity.
ACROSS THE SEA
Elad Mukades, Israel
26′
The first flight in my life to a friend’s wedding when I was 31 was for me a multifaceted release experience, an encounter with new landscapes, people and patterns.
My closest partner on the exciting journey was the camera with which I was amazed and together we turned anxiety into pleasure.
I am honored to invite you to join me on the ‘Mission of the Mitzvah’ flight, to Weizmann’s wedding, 12 hours away from Israel, and to return with me with a new look and thoughts.
Director Biography – Elad Mukades
Certificate studies – Jewish Film College
Master’s degree in film studies – Sapir College
LA FLOTTE
Jessica Woodworth, Belgium
23′
Tess, Mia, Rok and Tiago fly the skies with La Flotte airline, their hearts full of longings, their true natures bubbling just below the surface of their ultra-groomed appearance. The unthinkable happens in mid-flight, leaving them suspended between heaven and earth, past and future, life and death.
Director Biography – Jessica Woodworth
Jessica Woodworth is a Belgian-American film director, screenwriter and producer based in Belgium. Prior fiction feature films are Khadak, Altiplano, The Fifth Season, King of the Belgians and The Barefoot Emperor, made with Peter Brosens. Her most recent feature film Luka premiered in 2023 in Rotterdam. Her films have screened in over 350 festivals including Venice, Cannes, Toronto and Sundance. She has won over 70 awards, including the Lion of the Future in Venice. Jessica grew up between Belgium, Switzerland and the US and has since studied and worked in Italy, France, China, Mongolia and Morocco. She has a degree in literature from Princeton University and a masters in documentary film from Stanford University. She gives workshops for actors and directors, has been on juries worldwide and is a frequent mentor for film students.
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MOTHER’S SKIN
Leah Johnston, Canada
20′
Newfoundland, 1971. A neglected six-year-old girl struggles to cope with her mother’s depression and her father’s alcoholic rage. She spends her days alone, fending for herself, as her father works and her mother sleeps. At night, violence erupts around her, threatening to tear her family apart. But when the girl discovers a secret hidden within their home, her dysfunctional world takes on a strange new meaning.
Director Biography – Leah Johnston
LEAH JOHNSTON (WRITER/DIRECTOR) is an award-winning filmmaker from Nova Scotia, Canada. Her most recent short film, INGRID AND THE BLACK HOLE, premiered at Fantasia Film Festival and was showcased at over twenty film festivals, winning eight awards, including Best Canadian Short at Edmonton International Film Festival. She is the recipient of the Corus Fearless Female Filmmaker Award (2015), the $35,000 Bravofact/WIFT Prize (2015) and the National Screen Institute Drama Prize (2013). She graduated with a B.F.A. from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and is an alumni of the National Screen Institute, the Reykjavik Talent Lab and the Academy of Canadian Cinema Directing program.
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MADELEINE
Raquel Sancinetti, Canada
15′
Every week, two friends born 67 years apart share their life stories in a senior home’s living room. The younger friend convinces the 107-year-old lady to join her in an adventure: a road trip to the sea.
Director Biography – Raquel Sancinetti
Raquel is a Brazilian-Canadian filmmaker. With a background in film post production, she earned her degree in Film animation at Concordia University in 2013 and since then has been working on independent films. Her graduation film “Cycle” has played in several festivals around the world and won 4 prizes.
DATÆTERNA
Axel Chemin, France
23′
In the near future, a micro-worker performs tasks that are suggested to her. Between data center maintenance and data processing, she hesitantly searches for ways to feel emotions. Devoid of social links, this world is saturated with data.
Director Biography – Axel Chemin
A graduate of La Fémis specialized in editing, Axel Chemin edits and and directs poetic and political films using a variety of systems in images. An active member of the cinema department of Le Wonder artistic collective, he experiments, works and exhibits his films there.
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