The screening series HISTORY PROJECTED, organized in collaboration with the Goethe Institute continues for its fourth episode.
Relations of masculinity, struggle for dominance, gentrification, migration, sovereignty, solidarity, center and periphery unfold on both sides of different borders. A feature film captures the condition of a power plant construction site in a Bulgarian village very close to Greece; a short film is “built” in the heart of Athens in a strange gray zone shaped by the economic collapse, in an apartment that a young bourgeois decides to renovate with the help of an Albanian worker. Films made in the late phase of a past crisis – or the beginning of a new one that is here to stay.
Episode 4: Building History
Date: Wednesday 9 October 2024
LOCATION: GOETHE INSTITUT ATHEN
Freee Entrance
SCREENING SCHEDULE:
19.00
Manodopera, Loukianos Moshonas, 2016, 30΄
(In Greek with English subtitles)
Down the lower-ground floor, as seasons go by, an Albanian worker and a Greek upper-class young man redo a flat. High on the rooftop, as nightfalls go by, the young man and his friends reconsider the world.
Director’s Bio:
Loukianos Moshonas was born in Athens in 1985. He graduated from the School of Fine Arts in Lyon and from the Fresnoy Studio national des arts contemporains. His films were shown and awarded at Locarno (Switzerland), at New Directors/New Films (New York), at Angers (France), Documenta Madrid (Spain), Janela (Brazil), Olhar de Cinema (Brazil), Vila do Conde (Portugal), Mar de Plata (Argentina). His short film Jeunes hommes à la fenêtre won the European Film Academy award for Best European Film at the Locarno International Film Festival.
19:30
Western, Valeska Grisebach, 2017, 121΄
(In German with Greek and English subtitles)
A group of German construction workers begin building a hydroelectric power station in a remote region of Bulgaria. Even though relations with a nearby village’s inhabitants are difficult – not least because of language barriers that are initially almost impossible to overcome – Meinhard succeeds in making friends with the locals. His colleague Vincent tracks these rapprochements with jealous mistrust. With Western, Valeska Grisebach tells the story of migrant workers in foreign countries with the conditions reversed: the Germans here are foreigners, and overcoming borders is no easier for them than for their colleagues who come to Germany as outsiders.
Valeska Grisebach studied Philosophy and German Studies in Berlin, Munich, and Vienna. In 1993, she began studying to be a director at the Viennese Film Academy under Peter Patzak, Wolfgang Glück, and Michael Haneke. Her second feature film, Longing, premiered in 2006 in the Berlinale Competition. The film received several awards, including the Special Jury Award in Buenos Aires and the Special Jury Award at the Warsaw International Film Festival.
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