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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

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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

Dusan Makavejev Man is not a birdMan 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 StamatiadisMaxence 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 EyeChick Strand, Gunvor Nelson, Storm de Hirsch

Peyote Queen Storm de HirschPeyote 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

Parakalo Gynaikes Min Klaite TsiolisPlease 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 Cienaga MartelLa Ciénaga (103' / 2001)

 Introduction by Dimitris Bampas, Cinema Critic and Program Curator

 

 

 

Το Τρίτο Μάτι / The Third Eye:

Chick Strand Soft FictionChick 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

As Perimenoyn Oi Gynaikes TsiolisΑς 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

 

 

 

Dusan Makavejev LoveAffairLove 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

La Nina Santa MartelHoly 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

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