Images and Views of Alternative Cinema
The French Institute of Cyprus participates in the Images and Views of Alternative Cinema Festival with the invitation of the French director Maxence Stamatiadis, in collaboration with the Cultural Services of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sport and Youth and the ENA theater.
7 - 23 February 2020. Weaving Mill (Lefkonos 67-71, 1011 Nicosie).
Programme
Monday 17 February - 20:00
Stavros Tsiolis : Wanderings in the Greek Mainland
Such a Distant Absence (84' / 1985)
Introduction by Dimitris Bampas, Cinema Critic and Program Curator
Peter Greenaway : Early Confessions of an Ornithologist
A Walk through H.: The Reincarnation of an Ornithologist (41’ / 1978)
H is for House (8’ / 1976)
Windows (14’ / 1974)
Dear Phone (17’ / 1976)
Introduction by Christiana Ioannou, Dramaturge and Program Curator
Tuesday 18 February - 20:00
Maxence Stamatiadis : Melancholia, Dreams and the Future
The director will be present at the screenings
Kymco (16' / 2016)
Killer Period (55' / 2017)
Introduction by Doros Demetriou, Film Historian and Program Curator
Sex and Politics of the Subversive Kind: The Cinema of Dušan Makavejev
Man is Not a Bird (78' / 1965)
Introduction by Christopher Zimmerman, Experimental Film Curator & Theorist and Program Curator
Wednesday 19 February - 20:00
Marina Xenofontos: On Sunlight and Vandalisms
Topos or Closer to deja vu than nostalgia (Cyprus, the Island of Love) (8' / 2012)
We were supposed to have fun (4' / 2011 - ongoing)
A Portrait of Perfi and Abdullah Öcalan (0:08’/ 2012)
Sunlight Vandalism (13' / 2020)
Introduction by Evagoras Vanezis, Art Theorist and Program Curator and Marina Xenofontos, Visual Artist
Maxence Stamatiadis: Melancholia, Dreams and the Future
The director will be present at the screenings
Purina n°1 (23' / 2018)
Shiver of Love (20' / 2019)
Introduction by Doros Demetriou, Film Historian and Program Curator
Lucrecia Martel’s Salta trilogy
The Headless Woman / La Mujer sin cabeza (87' / 2008)
Introduction by Dimitris Bampas, Cinema Critic and Program Curator
Thursady 20 February - 20:00
The Third Eye: Chick Strand, Gunvor Nelson, Storm de Hirsch
Peyote Queen (9' / 1965)
Soft Fiction
Chick Strand (55' / 1979)
Third Eye Butterfly
Storm de Hirsch (10' / 1968)
Introduction by Program Curators Christiana Ioannou, Dramaturge and Christopher Zimmerman, Experimental Film Curator & Theorist
Stavros Tsiolis: Wanderings in the Greek Mainland
Please Women, Do Not Cry. Co directed with Hristos Vakalopoulos (88' / 1992)
Introduction by Dimitris Bampas, Cinema Critic and Program Curator
Friday 21 February - 20:00
Lucrecia Martel’s Salta trilogy
La Ciénaga (103' / 2001)
Introduction by Dimitris Bampas, Cinema Critic and Program Curator
Το Τρίτο Μάτι / The Third Eye:
Chick Strand, Gunvor Nelson, Storm de Hirsch
Newsreel: Jonas in the Brig Storm de Hirsch (5' / 1964)
Schmeerguntz Gunvor Nelson (13' / 1966)
Frame Line Gunvor Nelson (22' / 1983)
Natural Features Gunvor Nelson (28' / 1990)
Charlotte Moorman's Avant-garde Festival #9
Storm de Hirsch (10' / 1965)
Introduction by Program Curators Christiana Ioannou, Dramaturge and Christopher Zimmerman, Experimental Film Curator & Theorist
Saturday 22 February - 20:00
Stavros Tsiolis: Wanderings in the Greek Mainland
Ας Περιμένουν οι Γυναίκες / Let the Women Wait (87' / 1998)
Introduction by Dimitris Bampas, Cinema Critic and Program Curator
Sex and Politics of the Subversive Kind: The Cinema of Dušan Makavejev
Love Affair, or the Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator (68' / 1967)
Introduction by Christopher Zimmerman, Experimental Film Curator & Theorist and Program Curator
Sunday 23 February - 20:00
Lucrecia Martel: Η Τριλογία της Salta / Lucrecia Martel’s Salta trilogy
Holy Girl / La Niña Santa (106' / 2004)
Introduction by Dimitris Bampas, Cinema Critic and Program Curator
Sex and Politics of the Subversive Kind: The Cinema of Dušan Makavejev
Innocence Unprotected (79' / 1968)
Introduction by Christopher Zimmerman, Experimental Film Curator & Theorist and Program Curator