The screenings are free and open to the public and are held with the support of local cultural institutions, with the financial support of the Ministry of Culture and Sports as well as the Hellenic Cinema Center.
A special one road trip for Greek cinema, organized this year in September by the Union of Greek Cinema Directors-Producers (ESPEK). A self-propelled vehicle, with all the necessary equipment, becomes a moving summer cinema that will cross a large part of the country, looking for areas where important Greek films were born.
Wanting to highlight the relationship between Greek films and the places where they were filmed, but also to build close ties between Greek films and the public, the “Landmarks” maps a cinematic route, with 10 stops and 10 screenings of iconic Greek films, which created a special relationship with the place where they were filmed and left their mark on the course of Greek cinema.
The goal is, according to its announcement ESPEK, each projection to create a dialogue of the work with its place of origin and the respective representation. Through the gaze of the respective creator, the corresponding place is completely transformed, in order to serve a mental state, it becomes a narrative vehicle and ultimately reveals the creator’s gaze on life itself.
How different, for example, is the wet and black-and-white Corfu of Nikos Panagiotopoulos in “Melodrama”, from the colorful and noisy “Countess of Corfu” by Alekos Sakellarios, or the enclosed, suffocating Corfu of Konstantinos Theotokis in “Honor of Love” Tonias Marketakis, or even the mysterious Corfu of “Fedora” by Billy Wilder.
So from this perspective, ESPEK’s mobile summer cinema will make stops all over Greece, from the Peloponnese to Macedonia, and from Corfu to the center of Athens, while it will screen classic as well as contemporary fiction and documentaries. , creating a polyphonic varied program rich in seasons, genres and themes.
In Athena three films by Eva Stefanis will be presented, which explore different aspects of the city. Stefani’s lens wanders, observes and records life, in an Athens that we know exists, but we usually pass by. Images of the city, archival material and excerpts from old pornographic films, compose three handmade and unconventional films, examples of an unclassifiable cinema, which has the power to reveal the sacred through the trivial.
The adventure of this unique cinematic journey will simultaneously form the basis for a short documentary, which will highlight the relationship of the films with the specific places, but also the life of a self-propelled summer cinema that crosses Greece.
Screenings are free and open to the public and are carried out with the support of local cultural institutions, with the financial support of the Ministry of Culture and Sports as well as the Hellenic Cinema Center.
Here’s the movie viewing route:
THE ROUTE AND THE FILMS
1st stop
Saturday 10/09 – Kinetta
Courtyard of the Community – Kineta Federation of the Municipality of Megareo | 21:00
KINETTA by Giorgos Lanthimos (2005)
2nd stop
Sunday 11/09 – Athens
Open basketball court Larissa Station square | 21:00
3 ATHENIAN FILMS by Eva Stefani
ATHENS (1995)
ACROPOLIS (2001)
MANUSCRIPT (2017)
3rd stop
Monday 12/09 – Lamia
Courtyard of the 6th Gymnasium of Lamia (Petrino) | 21:00
THE BALLAD OF THE HOLE HEART by Yiannis Economides (2020)
4th stop
Wednesday 14/09 – Lake Caiaphas
Baths of Caiaphas | 20:30
HONEY JOURNEY by George Panousopoulos (1979)
5th stop
Thursday 15/09 – Messolonghi
Old Railway Station | 21:00
LEFTERIS DIMAKOPOULOS by Pericles Hoursoglou (1993)
6th stop
Saturday 17/09 – Kilkis | 21:00
EVERYTHING IS A ROAD by Pantelis Voulgaris
7th stop
Sunday 18/09 – Volvi | 21:00
LET THE WOMEN WAIT by Stavros Tsiolis (1998)
8th stop
Tuesday 20/09 – Vitsa
Aloni Theater, over there country | 20:30
REPRESENTATION by Theodoros Angelopoulos (1970)
9th stop
Wednesday 21/09 – Corfu, Pano Platia Spianada | 21:00
MELODRAMA by Nikos Panagiotopoulos (1980)
10th stop
Friday 23/09 – White Houses, Viotia
ATTENBERG of Athena-Rachel Tsangaris (2010)
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