Artists: AntoinettaAngelidi, Costis, Constantine Giannaris, Alexis Damianos, Nicos Papatakis, Angelos Prokopiou & G.Hoyningen-Huene, Thanassis Rentzis, Kostas Sfikas, EvaStefani, Stavros Tornes, Athina- Rachel Tsangari, Christos Vakalopoulos & Stavros Tsiolis
The Film Appendix is the short experience of HELL AS PAVILION unraveled within the area of the filmic imaginary.
Films by Greek filmmakers, from various generations and alternative creative idioms, create an atlas (and by no means a formal and exhaustive representation) of unexpected relationships; they suggest an unorthodox view on a practice which is little known abroad and its character is closely related to the paradoxa of the Greek culture, the unresolved tensions within Greek identity and the crises and ruptures which have shaped Greek history
From the political, abstract, based on collaged images, films of Kostas Sfikas (whose work Modèle, an interpretation of Marx’s Capital is included in the collection of Centre Georges Pompidou), to the ambiguous, subversive works of Thanassis Rentzis; from the, closely related to visual art codes, films of Antoinetta Angelidi and Costis to the uncanny psychological/ historical alter-documentaries of Eva Stefani; from the dark social critique of Constantine Giannaris to the absurd poetic reveries of Stavros Tornes; from the wild neo-realist rural fantasies of Alexis Damianos to the explosive antiauthoritarian language of Nicos Papatakis; from the broken, vulnerable, humanism and wry humour of Christos Vakalopoulos and Stavros Tsiolis to the disciplined weirdness of Athina-Rachel Tsangari; from the recent tales on the Greek New Cinema back to the first Greek art film, the mythical and long lost Dafni (Dafni Monastery), of 1951 with english texts by Aldus Huxley and narrators Ethel Barrymore & Maurice Evans: HELL AS PAVILION, the Film Appendix, suggests, in the words of Vakalopoulos, that ” we are all cinematographers and because we are afraid we do not make films.”
Realized with the cooperation of, the Greek Fim Centre, the Greek Film Archive, DESTE Foundation for Contemporary art and the film makers.