“Mysterio 23_Cinema-Eleusis: IN SITU realities”: Documentary Festival in collaboration with Premiere Nights, in Eleusis

July 7, 2022

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The festival is taking place this summer as a pilot and with free admission, in collaboration with the Athens International Film Festival Premiere Nights.

This summer Eleusis it turns into an outdoor cinema with film screenings inspired by the city and the anthropo-geography of its inhabitants. The 2023 ELEVSIS Cultural Capital of Europe presents from July 7 to 10 the deposit action “Mysterio 23_Cinema-Eleusis: IN SITU realities”, marking the start of the first Documentary Festival in the wider region, in collaboration with the Athens International Film Festival- Premiere Nights.

Undertaking a conversation with Elefsina and its landscapes, and at the same time a re-reading of eight iconic documentaries, the festival will transform the OSE lines of the old railway station and the parking lot of the Old Olive Oil, two sites of special aesthetics and importance for the historical load and the ever-changing environment of Elefsina, in outdoor cinemas, giving the city’s residents and visitors an unforgettable artistic experience.

Drawing its subject matter from the whole range of realistic recording, archaeology, history, ethnography to the environment and ecology, the summer version of the Documentary Festival is a precursor to the action “Cine-Eleusis: IN SITU realities”, which will be hosted from the fall of 2023 in the historic Elefsis cinema, the first – in view of the 2023 ELEVSIS Cultural Capital of Europe – closed performance and cinematographic artistic event hall.

The festival is taking place this summer as a pilot and with free admission, in collaboration with the Athens International Film Festival Premiere Nights.

A few words about Mystery 23_Sine-Eleusis: IN SITU realities

Mysterio 23_Cine-Eleusis: IN SITU realities is inspired by the unique characteristics of Eleusis as an emblematic historical place but also as a modern industrial urban landscape, and focuses on the thematic axes of 2023 ELEVSIS European Capital of Culture regarding the connection between man and society and the environment.

In Eleusis, in this place of contrasts, where the inevitable reflections of the ancient and industrial past and the human mosaic of modern history meet today the necessary visions for a more ecological future, a persistent dialogue is cultivated. And it is these inherent contrasts – overt and hidden – in her body, that constantly invite and inspire every cinematic gaze that dares to run through her.

The aim of Mystery 23_Cinema-Eleusis: IN SITU realities is the transformation of Eleusis into a valuable and mysterious exhibit, through the unexpected conversation of cinema viewing with the natural setting that will host it, and the transformation of a series of screenings into site specific artistic action. The choice of films and screening locations follows the logic of visual intervention, of re-meaning a space as a welcoming point of culture.