Classics O’Clock VI, Saturday March 4, 18:00
Classics O’Clock VI, Saturday March 4, 18:00
Introduction with the director Vassilis Vafeas
The Cosmic Dissecting Room Show
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Vassilis Vafeas
Greece
art essay
1993
61’
Gregory Semitecolo, Nephele Anthopoulos
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35th Panorama of European Cinema
A surrealist poetic film that juxtaposes two worlds, that of a pioneering artist Gregory Semitecolo with the world of the inhabitants of a frontier island where the first decides to present a visual event. These two worlds, although seemingly opposed, through the process of artistic creation and expression coexist in harmony. The film premiered at The Athens Concert Hall as a multishow in 1993. 25 years later it was recommended by a famous visual artist, Robert Kennedy, for a 2012 tribute to him by the Centre for Contemporary Arts in Glasgow. He chose 3 films: The Cosmic Dissecting Room Show by Vassilis Vafeas, Symbiopsychotaxiplasm by William Greaves and Socialism by Jean-Luc Godard
Now and Then: My New Smyrna
ΤΩΡΑ ΚΑΙ ΤΟΤΕ: Η ΝΕΑ ΣΜΥΡΝΗ ΜΟΥ
Vassilis Vafeas
Greece
creative documentary
2022
61’
35th Panorama of European Cinema
It is a creative documentary where, through an impressionistic approach, touches of words and images compose a journey of individual and collective memory with references to the social, political and cultural history of the place from 1922 until today.
Vasilis Vafeas was born in 1944 in Alexandria, Egypt. He studied chemistry at the Universities of Athens and film at the Sorbonne and Stavrakos school. He began his career in the period 1973-1977 with two short-length films and three documentaries, and debuted with the masterpiece "Eastern region" in 1979. In his films are always distinct experiential elements but discontinued or gradually outweighed by the advent of the imaginary that gives a more complex dimension of reality. Vafeas is fascinated by everyday human stories while at the same time attracted by tipping as it focuses on what happens to the characters of his films when collapsing cornerstones of society such as a good job or an arranged marriage.