An evening of film screenings curated by Ethnofest – Athens Ethnographic Film Festival.
When: Thursday, December 8, 2022, 20:00
Where: Goethe-Institut Athen, 14–16 Omirou Str., 106 72 Athens
It is with great pleasure that we invite you to the screening of two outstanding documentaries:
Sans soleil [Sunless] by Chris Marker, and Lektionen in Finsternis [Lessons of Darkness] by Werner Herzog.
Herzog celebrated his 80th birthday in September this year – this double feature is also in his honor.
The event is part of “Film Club”, a series of film screenings developed as separate “episodes” curated by different Greek film festivals. In the context of this program, which will unfold periodically from July 2022 onwards, films from the Goethe-Institut’s Film Archive will be shown alongside films selected by the collaborators of FILM CLUB.
Ethnofest curates the third episode of the programme that takes place on December 8 at 20:00 at the amphitheatre of Goethe Institute in Athens.
Screening details:
Lektionen in Finsternis [Lessons of Darkness], Werner Herzog, Germany, 1992, 52′
in German with Greek and English subtitles
Shortly before the end of the Second Gulf War, Iraqi troops set fire to oil fields as they retreated from Kuwait. Herzog and his cinematographer sought to capture the incomprehensible, the apocalypse, with cinematic means and to show what was left behind.
Sans soleil [Sunless], Chris Marker, France, 1983, 100′
in French with Greek and English subtitles
A thought in pictures about different countries, from Iceland to Guinea-Bissau, passing through Japan. Letters of a freelance cameraman, read by an unknown woman. Two countries have attracted his particular attention: modern Japan and Guinea-Bissau after its failed revolution.
image ©Werner Herzog Film