Program
Please note the changes in the program
Wednesday, 16 May
Welcome / 14:15-15:00
Introduction
Representative of the Dept. of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies
Claudia Slanar (Curator, Blicke Cinema)
Maria Oikonomou
1: SCENERIES / 15:00-16:30
(focuses on the projection of history onto geographical, architectural or discursive “scapes”, the landscape of Thessaly and the museum space)
Konstantinos Kalantzis (University College London)
Dowsing the Past: Reflections on Film, Ethnography and Historical Imaginaries in Thessaly
Chris Zisis (Hamburg University)
Visual and Material Displays of Migration Histories in Museums/ Exhibitions in Germany
2: BODIES / 17:00-18:30
(deals with the documentation of animal as well as human bodies, their intersections, “becomings” and capabilities)
Irene Gerogianni (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Architecture)
Attenberg: Nature Documentaries and the Performance of Becoming (-Animal)
Tullio Richter-Hansen (Freie Universität Berlin)
Sporting Queerness: Film Sports as Documentaristic Incidents in ‘Greek Weird Cinema’
SCREENING / 19:00-20:45
Passing Drama (Angela Melitopoulos, 1999, 66 min., subtitled)
— The artist will be present
Thursday, 17 May
3: CROSS-OVERS / 10:00-11:30
Iakovos Panagopoulos (University of Central Lancashire / Blackpool & The Fylde College)
Documentary Modes in Feature Fiction Films: The Case of Petros Sevastikoglou and his Film “Electra 2014”
Afroditi Nikolaidou (Hellenic Open University)
Documentary Filmmaking and Journalism Practice: Tracing a Genealogy of Greek Documentary Journalism
4: OTHER/S / 12:00-13:30
(confronts the Lacanian concept of the Big Other with the re-creation of the Greek Jewish Culture)
Deniss Boldavesko (University of Vienna)
Lanthimos meets Lacan: When Fiction Has More Truth than Pre-Filmic Reality Itself
Kostis Kornetis (Carlos III University Madrid)
Visualizing Silence: Three Documentaries on Salonica’s Jewish Past
5: SELF/S / 15:00-16:30
(explores constructions of identity through a collective historical past and through the private aesthetics of filmic diaries)
Kristina Gedgaudaite (Merton College, University of Oxford)
Smyrna in Your Pocket: Strategies of Framing the Memory of the Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922)
Geli Mademli (University of Amsterdam)
Diaries in Flux: The Aesthetics of Obsolescence in New Greek Essay Documentaries
6: INVENTIONS / 17:00-18:30
(analyzes collective amateur film practices and audiovisual archives as ways of inventing a people)
Ulrich Meurer (University of Vienna / Central European University, Budapest)
The People Is Missing: Laboratory Athens & Minor Cinema
Athena Peglidou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
From Folklore Audiovisual Archives to Documentaries: The Colonial Gaze and the Aesthetics of National Authenticity
Friday, 18 May
PODIUM / 10:00-11:30
‘Documenting futures / future documentaries’
Maria Chalkou (Principal Editor of Filmicon)
Lydia Papadimitriou (John Moores University, Liverpool)
Ioannis Skopeteas (University of the Aegean)
Irene Stathi (University of the Aegean) – Moderation
7: REVERSIONS / 12:00-13:30
(focuses on two different ways of appropriating oppressive political tools and transforming them into a form or rhetoric of resistance)
Ram Krishna Ranjan (Valand Academy, University of Gothenburg)
Decolonial Thinking and Documentary: Towards an AestheSis that Reclaims, Repurposes and Reimagines Allegory
Brenda Hollweg (School of Fine Arts & Cultural Studies, University of Leeds)
Cine-Archaeology of the Camp: Olivier Zuchuat’s ‘”ike Stone Lions at the Gateway into Night” (2012)
SCREENING / 15:00-16:30
Next Stop: Utopia (Apostolos Karakasis, 2015, 91 min., subtitled)
8: CONNECTIONS / 17:00-18:30
(examines the combination of units, either through (digital) links between parts of an archive or through spatial movement)
Anna Poupou (University of Athens / Hellenic Open University)
Documenting Urban History Through the Moving Image: The Film, the Archive and the City
Vasiliki Petsa (University of Peloponnese)
Cinematic Urban Trajectories: Documenting the Shifting Athenian Experience in Greek Road and Travel Films
SCREENING / 19:00-21:00
Athine [Αθήναι] (Eva Stefani, 1995, 38 min., subtitled)
What Time Is It? [Τι Ώρα Είναι;] (Eva Stefani, 2007, 26 min., subtitled)
Manuscript [Χειρόγραφο] (Eva Stefani, 2017, 12 min., subtitled)
— The artist will be present