From December 2nd, and for two weeks, every night each work will be presented as an intervention in the regular programme of each cinema –  before the main feature movie, among the trailers – gently disrupting the routine of movie-going experience and opening a space for unexpected encounters. 

Participating cinemas include: Cine Athenee, Diana, Mikrokosmos and Studio New Star Art Cinema.

The works will later be presented together at the derelict cinema Alphaville, in Eksarcheia neighborhood, resonating with dreams lost. Closed since 2008, Alphaville reopens for 48 hours on 15-16 December – with a loose sequence of moving images, music, poetry readings and site-responsive intervention. 

Musician Viki Steiri performs a live set for cello and electronics; Dimitra Ioannou, and other writers and poets will read texts drawn from their dreams, using dreaming as a way to make sense of this city. Chrysanthi Koumianaki’s intervention explores the interplay between private and public identities as shaped by the shifting realities of gentrified urban spaces in Athens, while engaging with the remnants of the cinema’s past lives. Approached as a forgotten monument of twentieth-century culture, Alphaville invites visitors to navigate its layered histories.

everynight concludes in January 2026 with Stanley Schtinter’s Last Movies. Audiences in Athens will have the opportunity to ‘see what those who see no more last saw’. Presented as a lecture-performance with screenings at the Greek Film Archive, The Last Movies sequences a century of Western cinema through the final films viewed by key cultural figures of the 20th century before dying, such as Kurt Cobain, Bette Davis, Franz Kafka, and Pier Paolo Pasolini, among others. 

The project focuses on artistic practices in the field of the moving image and its relationship to cinema; an artform underrepresented in the current Greek art scene.  It also foregrounds the pivotal role that Athenian cinemas have played in shaping collective experiences, encounters, and imagination, as an integral part of Athens’ cultural identity. 

Curated by Panos Fourtoulakis and developed in collaboration with artist-run space 3 137, everynight is realised with the financial support and under the auspices of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture, it is supported by the 2025 ARTWORKS Grants program, which is funded by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) and other individual donors, and with the support of NEON Organization for Culture and Development. The programme at the derelict cinema Alphaville is realised with support from Onassis AiR. 

exhibition at the derelict cinema Alphaville is supported by Onassis AiR. 

Visual reference: Αthena cinema, Patision street, Athens, Personal archive of N. Theodosiou

Participating cinemas

2–14 December 2025
Pre-feature interventions across selected cinemas 

Cine Athenee
Lefkosias 43, Athina 112 53

Mikrokosmos Cinema
Leof. Andrea Siggrou 106, Athina 117 41

Movie Theatre Diana
Perikleous 14, Marousi 151 22

Studio New Star Art Cinema
Stavropoulou 33, Athina 112 52

15–16  December 2025
48 hours takeover of the derelict cinema Alphaville
Mavromichali 168, Exarcheia 114 72

22–23 January 2026
Stanley Schtinter, Last Movies

The Greek Film Archive
Meg. Alexandrou 136, Athina 104 35