SMALL SCREENS 2023
ELEUSIS Works & Days
Trying to compose the big picture of a “mysterious” time, three small screens appear at the foyer of cine Eleusis. The three vital pieces – of a larger, incomplete puzzle – unite and, through their digital composition, reveal the transformative experience of a transition to a new human condition.
The Mysteries (Small Screen 1: unedited footage from artistic activities during the title year), the Mystae (Small Screen 2: unforgettable moments of participation and co-creation with local communities) and the Demystifications (Small Screen 3: confessions concerning the experience of the artistic creation in Elefsina) remind us of all those moments that have been made into memories thanks to artistic envisioning.
Duration: December 15 until December 18
Location: Lounge – Small Screens
Time : 20:00-00:00
SMALL SCREEN 1 | MYSTERIES: ONE YEAR IN ONE HOUR
SUMMARY
Can just one screen fit all the Mysteries of an entire year? The following Mysteries appear – rawly and randomly: Mystery 3 Elefsina Mon Amour, Mystery 16 Τogether! A Circus Invitation, Mystery 19 Visual Arts Initiator III – But Don’t Tell Anyone, Mystery 20 Performing Arts Initiator –Narrative Archaeology, Mystery 34 Faces of Elefsina, Mystery 38 Music From the Inside, Mystery 42 Futuring Waters, Mystery 43 School of Waves and Weeds, Mystery 48 Constellations, Mystery 57 Climbing Over Elefsina – Revisiting the Landscapes of Elefsina, Mystery 60 metamorphoSEA, Mystery 62 Nuits de Lenteur – À Propos du Temps, Mystery 69 Greekies, Mystery 73 Cinema Paradise: Industries of Coexistence, Mystery 76 Don’t Look Back, Mystery 89 Elefsina by Night, Mystery 91 Magnetic Dance, Mystery 99 The Ark, Mystery 100 Sacred Songs, Mystery 106 Chamomile – Transit, Mystery 109 The Higgs Particle, Mystery 113 A Celebration to Change the World, Mystery 114 Everything Open, Mystery 115 Big and Small Ships, Mystery 118 Through Rupture Comes the Flow, Mystery 119 Humanosphère, Mystery 127 Horses in Love, Mystery 128 Crows, Mystery 132 Sky Above Elefsina, Mystery 134 Persephone, the Red Carpet, Mystery 139 Alienation, Mystery 140 Blind Guide, Mystery 142 Oh So Now Eleusis Is Growing Wheat!, Mystery 154 Live Music Acts, Mystery 166 State of Emergency, Mystery 168 Mobile Solar Cinema, Mystery 182 Sunday’s ADVENT, Mystery 183 Apothéri Project: An Experimental Contemporary Street Festival, Mystery 189 Myths and Legends of Elefsina: The Mysteries of Clay, Mystery 200 Mythological Gardens, Mystery 299 How to Change our Mind to Change the World.
ΤΕΚΜΗΡΊΩΣΗ-ΔΙΕΎΘΥΝΣΗ ΦΩΤΟΓΡΑΦΊΑΣ Παντελής Λαδάς
POST PRODUCTION
LDSPRO
SMALL SCREEN 2 | MYSTAE: THE ELEFSINIANS PARTICIPATE
Throughout these years, there have been projects that have traversed the Elefsinian and wider Thriasian Plain, opening up to their local communities, exchanging thoughts and ideas, gradually and steadily creating new ceremonial ways of dealing with reality. From the colourful mosaic of Elefsina to the rural communities of Aspropyrgos and the manufacturing centres of Megara, a network of mystae [initiates] began to set up and operate in West Attica. These are some of the most defining moments in their formation, always committed – and therefore decisive – to the realisation of the artistic vision of 2023 Eleusis.
Audio-visual evidence from the actions appears on the screen:
MYSTERY 0 THE ELEUSINIAN MOVEMENT Tzeni Argyriou & Vasilis Gerodimos (2023, 19 ́)
MYSTERY 13 I_LEFT (Presentation Of The Trilogy) Yolanda Markopoulou (2014-2023, 25 ́)
MYSTERY 29 ELEFSINA – RAW MUSEUM Konstantinos Arvanitakis (2022, 25 ́)
MYSTERY 39 THE FREE BESIEGED Dimitris Zachos (2022, 5 ́)
MYSTERY 57 CLIMBING OVER ELEFSINA / REVISITING THE LANDSCAPES OF ELEFSINA Christos Tolis (2021-2023, 32 ́)
MYSTERY 67 AMOLÍ Demeter and Agriculture on the Post-Industrial Thriasian Plain Emilia Bouriti (2023, 15 ́)
ΜΥΣΤΗΡΙΟ 69 GREEKIES Menelaos Karamaghiolis – Døcumatism (2023, 4’)
MYSTERY 84 PANIGÍRI [Live-Cinema | The Working Class | Sirens] The Archlabyrinth (2023, 19 ́)
MYSTERY 96 CHÓRES Giorgos Athanasiou (2023, 18 ́)
MYSTERY 134 PERSEPHONE, THE RED CARPET (Excerpts) Joshua Olsthoorn, Madlen Anipsitaki & Simon Riedler (2023, 10 ́)
MYSTERY 183 APOTHÉRI PROJECT Lazaros Graikos (2023, 4 ́)
SMALL SCREEN 3 | DEMYSTIFICATIONS: THE CREATORS IN THE LIGHT
Some of the most renowned and acclaimed contemporary creators came to Elefsina, experienced the energy of the place, and presented their works as confessions of this experience. The third section is dedicated to these testimonies. The following individuals and collectives stand before the lens of Pantelis Ladas and Aggeliki Nikolari: Patricia Apergi and the six choreographers from the Academy of Choreography, Beforelight, Romeo Castellucci, Eleftheria Deko and the Dancetheater company, Marina Fokidi, Panos Giannikopoulos, Katerina Gregos, Gemma Hanson, Yannis Houvardas, Lampros Liavas, Yolanta Markopoulou, Sasha Waltz & Jochen Sandig, Iannis Zannos, and the visual artists from V.A. Initiator (Vlad Brâteanu, James Bridle, Athina Koumparouli, Esmeralda Momferatou, Susan Philipsz, Angelo Plessas, Yorgos Sapountzis, Flavia Stagi, Heidi Voet, Alexander Wolframm).
DIRECTION-CINEMATOGRAPHY
Pantelis Ladas
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Aggeliki Nikolari
POST-PRODUCTION
LDSPRO
