Program

Esperia Palace > 1st floor > KINO

Rainer Werner Fassbinder was a West German filmmaker, actor, cinematographer and editor. He is widely regarded as a prominent figure and catalyst of the New German Cinema movement. But above all, he was a rebel whose life and art was marked by gross contradiction. At Fassbinder's second feature Katzelmacher, when Jorgos (Raine Werner Fassbinder), a Greek immigrant laborer, moves to Munich, Germany, the lives of a financially and sexually frustrated group of friends are disrupted. Katzelmacher both depicts the personal alienation of the director himself and comments on the xenophobia in German society.

Film, 85' 
Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Produced by Peer Raben
Written by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Starring: Hanna Schygulla, Lilith Ungerer, Rudolf Waldemar Brem, Elga Sorbas, Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Music by Peer Raben
Cinematography Dietrich Lohmann
*With English subtitles

In collaboration with Goethe-Institut Athen

Esperia Palace > 1st floor > KINO

How art can be used as a tool for social awakening? Artistic activism is a way of thinking that generates actions which go beyond what is conventional to human society. It has played a major role in combating slavery, challenging polemic social tactics and politics, protecting human and non-human beings from exploitation, defending the environment, promoting gender equality, opposing speciesism, racism, sexism and so many other significant issues.

The documentary explores the ethics and validity of our sovereignty over the planet. Activists with drones, hidden and handheld cameras have managed to unravel the barbarity of the animal exploitation industries.

Documentary, 120'
Director: Chris Delforce
Writer: Chris Delforce
Cast: Joaquin Phoenix, Rooney Mara, Sia, Sadie Sink, Chris Delforce
*In English with Greek subtitles

A discussion will follow the screening.

Participants: Yorgos Tsamis (artist educator, eco-activist) and Tina Petritsopoulou (fashion designer, translator, activist) from the non-profit initiative Ethos & Empathy.

Esperia Palace > 1st floor > KINO

Under delicate diplomacy by artist and filmmaker Morten Traavik, the government’s negative reception of Laibach is appeased, and the Slovenian group has a green light to perform in North Korea. But this is not the end of Traavik’s and Laibach’s trouble. The plan for the concert undergoes various levels of censorship. What remains is a small number of songs accompanied by edited visual material approved by the Censorship Bureau. Laibach present amplified cover versions of songs from the 1965 musical film The Sound of Music. Western culture industry’s rebuke of National Socialism, reprocessed after Laibach’s playful appropriation of totalitarian aesthetics, reaches a quasi-unruffled audience during North Korea’s Liberation Day celebrations. Who absorbed whom? Laibach’s sincerity crosses North Korean politics and puzzles our perception of liberty and oppression. The film is premiered for the Athenian audience at AB6’s Kino on October 28, 2018—the day of the Greek national celebration of the Όχι (No) to the 1940 Italian Ultimatum.

Film, 100'
Directed by: Uģis Olte and Morten Traavik
Original languages: English, Korean
Subtitles: English
Produced by: Traavik.Info (Norway), VFS Films (Latvia)
In coproduction with: Mute Records (UK), Norsk Fjernsyn (Norway), Staragara (Slovenia)
Supported by: National Film Centre of Latvia, Culture Capital Foundation, Arts Council Norway, Slovenian Film Center

TTT building > 4th floor > room 403

Shadow theater has a long tradition in Greece and the East. Karagioz, the folk hero, personifies the Ordinary Guy Archetype, a bit naive, a bit of a rascal, poor and beaten-up, trying to survive against the odds by utilizing folk wisdom and tons of luck. In Aggelopoulos's shadow theater, a mash-up of politicians, media figures, superheroes, cinema characters and villains-from Donald Trump and Slavoj Zizek to Rocky and Marina Abramovic-competes in an imaginary arena. Place your bets on the winner. 

Esperia Palace > Ground floor

In this work (performance) the visual artist Joy Kolaitis attempts–through her alter-ego Anna Goula–to bridge the past and the present of the turbo-folk and the bourgeois, the fringe and the elit. 

A music performance with the essence of tzatziki. 

Inception, texts, song-covers, direction: Joy Kolaitis
Piano: Kotsos Davidoff
Performer: Anna Goula, Smaragda

TSMEDE

The closing party of the 6th Athens Biennale ANTI is an ultimate pleasure: underground, dark tech, minimal synth, pop, house, reggaeton and more to be enjoyed. 

Dj set by Tranny and the Bear

Free entrance

TTT building > 4th floor > room 403

Shadow theater has a long tradition in Greece and the East. Karagioz, the folk hero, personifies the Ordinary Guy Archetype, a bit naive, a bit of a rascal, poor and beaten-up, trying to survive against the odds by utilizing folk wisdom and tons of luck. In Aggelopoulos's shadow theater, a mash-up of politicians, media figures, superheroes, cinema characters and villains-from Donald Trump and Slavoj Zizek to Rocky and Marina Abramovic-competes in an imaginary arena. Place your bets on the winner.