An original anniversary party at the City of Athens Technopolis!
On the occasion of CINEMA Magazine's 25-year anniversary and the Athens International Film Festival's 20th edition, the organizers have announced a series of highly original fine art and music events entitled "Frame - Light - Motion", taking place Friday, September 26 with the collaboration of The City of Athens Technopolis.
On the occasion of CINEMA Magazine's 25-year anniversary and the Athens International Film Festival's 20th edition, the organizers have announced a series of highly original fine art and music events entitled "Frame - Light - Motion", taking place Friday, September 26 with the collaboration of The City of Athens Technopolis.
The events are set to include a groundbreaking installation and interactive exhibition, especially conceived for this joint anniversary, as well as two very special live shows, featuring Mr.Girl and Felizol. The festivities will culminate in a big party with a live DJ set by Pulp drummer Nick Banks.
Using Frame - Light - Motion as this year's central motto, we examine the very beginnings of cinema, only this time we filter it through its primary elements. Frame, light and motion have always defined the history of the arts but it's cinema alone that requires a combination of all three.
The audience will get a chance to wander around Technopolis halls Innovathens and D12, discovering the experience of constant motion and the impenetrable hyperactivity of "The Model". In the first hall the festival will be projecting excerpts from 1000 film trailers on 24 screens to the music of Felizol, while in the second hall four screens will define the walls of a "moving room", featuring a live performance by Mr. Girl and her EWI, along with a screening of Kostas Sfikas' the "Model".
Innovathens - The experience of constant motion
18:00 - 23:00
24 screens will be projecting excerpts from 1000 film trailers. Some screens will be idle (idleness is the predecessor of movement), others will only transmit static (noise is the active ingredient in every communicative relationship), while a single monitor will be showing John Cassavetes' "Opening Night".
The excerpts will be stripped of all sound, instantly transforming the moving image into an archetype, newly scored by Felizol. The singer/songwriter will create a hedonistic wall of sound, a neo-punk delirium based on electro music, paroxysmal disco tunes and the most shameless soundtracks in the history of cinema.
The trailers will be interrupted at regular intervals by a small scene in an anti-historical flashback that would never make sense to anyone but us!
Machining center (D12 building) - The impenetrable hyperactivity of "The Model"
18:00 - 23:00
Kostas Sfikas' "The Model", celebrating its 40th anniversary, will be screening on repeat in a spacious darkened theater with no discernible beginning and or end - not that it ever had one to begin with.
In the center of the building, four screens will define the limits of a "moving room", whose walls with project early 20th Century Avant-garde films, in an effort to reconstruct the history of frame, light and motion, the three cornerstones of cinema.
Inside this atypical "room", Mr Girl will perform an idiosyncratic concerto for EWI, a musical collage prying electro inflections out of Bach and Tsitsanis.
Two photography pioneers, Man Ray ("Le Retour à la Raison", "Emak-Bakia", "L’Étoile de Mer") and Paul Strand ("Manhatta") will be lending a hand, along with "Dark Into the Light", shot on a cell phone by Orestis Andreadakis.
NOTE: Beware, you'll probably see yourself staring back at you at some point.
The events will culminate in a live DJ set by Pulp drummer Nick Banks and the Popaganda.gr collective.
Entrance to all events is free of charge.
