We are very excited to inaugurate a new initiative as an organization, by distributing selected documentaries in Greece. The first film we are honoured to showcase, is the documentary Elsewhere, Everywhere (Ailleurs, Partout) by Isabelle Ingold & Vivianne Perlemuter the work of which we have been following for some time now, and we have selected their films for the 10th and 11th edition of our festival. The official premiere of Ailleurs, Partout took place on Wednesday, December 1st at ASTOR cinema in Athens as well as at cinemas in Paris and Brussels.
The film was selected by the Rotterdam International Film Festival for its world premiere in 2020 and since then it has participated in many festivals around the world, including the 11th Ethnofest – Athens Ethnographic Film Festival. The film will now kick-start its journey in Greek cinemas from Thursday December 9th. The first stop will be the cinema ASTOR in Athens, while the goal is to screen the film in many Greek cities in the upcoming months.
A FEW WORDS ABOUT THE FILM
The film Elsewhere, Everywhere narrates the story of Shahin, a 20 year old refugee from Iran who has fled his country longing for a brighter future. The narration slowly unravels through a combination of fragmented images and sounds, exploring the limits between the visible and the invisible. The film is an audiovisual collage produced solely by footage from surveillance cameras and webcams, text messages, voice calls and conversations.
Elsewhere, Everywhere is an experimental documentary that transcends the limits of the genre, while it renegotiates the cinematic form of films about immigration and migrant experiences. Following the tradition of Chantal Akerman and other filmmakers who expanded the limits of the documentary genre, the apparent distant majesty of the film is that, “without ever using empathy as a drawing card, winds up portraying a world: our own, which is stagnated in its fears, networks, flaws and bugs, but which is nevertheless – in random border zones and refugee camps – crossed by shooting stars of freedom and desire” as Vincent Dieutre mentions.
Shahin’s story, in the way that the directors choose to convey it, underlines the fragility of the human condition. In a world saturated by high-definition images, filters and stylized social media snapshots, the film brings forward the unnoticed visual narratives that are recorded by surveillance cameras – images that often remain invisible yet extremely real.
General Info:
Elsewhere, Everywhere | 2020 – Belgium
Color/B&W – 63’
The short film Journey (Safar, 2019, 11′) by Alexander Barquero, Kyra Sacks, Natascha Erfanipour will precede the screening.
This short documentary was made during the summer school organised by Ethnofest and Netherlands Institute at Athens in 2019 and it paints a portrait of the regional train that connects the refugee camp of Malakasa to Athens, in Greece. In Safar, this commute to the city creates the scenery in which stories, feelings and experiences unfold, while giving a sense of the continuous transition in which the refugees live.
Where: ASTOR Cinema from Thursday December 9th at 22.45pm
More info and tickets: http://www.astorcinema.gr
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