ARTWORKS SCREENINGS

ARTWORKS presented a selection of short films (fiction, documentary, animation) by the awardees of the 1st Stavros Niarchos Foundation Fellowship Program at the Greek Film Archive. ARTWORKS SCREENINGS bring to the fore contemporary filmmaking in Greece with the aim of creating a meeting point between emerging filmmakers and their audience.

The film screenings was followed by Q&A sessions with Menelaos Karamaghiolis.

George Nikopoulos, Butter bunny and his grape must cookies (2014, 23’)

Mr Butter Bunny was a famous chef. The most famous one in the hole forest. One day he decides to cook his girlfriend’s favorite, grape must cookies! He goes into his kitchen and collects the ingredients … Water, cinnamon, sugar, olive oil, flour, must … Must …. Must?

Eirini Vianelli, Icebergs (2017, 9’22’’)

Icebergs is an existential, dark comedy consisting of 14 short vignettes, ranging from the mundane to the absurd. It is based on the book “Scenes” by Award-winning screenwriter Efthymis Filippou.

Ioanna Petinaraki (Production), Carnivore (2014, 28’)

The story is about Menelaos, a man who has decided to take revenge on the person who murdered his parents fifteen years ago, by torturing and killing the murderer’s family.
Director: Dimitris Vavatsis

Konstantina Kotzamani, Limbo (2016, 30’)

The Leopard Shall lie down with the goat, the wolves shall live with the lambs. And the young boy will lead them. 12+1 kids and the carcass of a whale washed ashore.

Georgis Grigorakis, 45 Degrees (2012, 14’)

Athens, August 2012. 45 degrees. The fridge is empty. The situation is very tense. A father changes under the burden of the economic crisis. It’s getting dark and it’s still boiling hot. A capital at the border of exploding.

Jon Simvonis, Nipenthes (2016, 13’51”)

Through the walls of an abandoned commune, a thread runs knitting the moments of the silent individuals accompanying the deceased while his death suit is getting ready.

George Fourtounis, Ikaros (2015, 38’)

Michalis has a plan and awaits. His father leaves. Now he is alone with his mother, his sister, his brother and a knife.

Despina Economopoulou, AURORA (2015, 6’16’’)

A screaming whisper to remind us the damage our consuming hysteria of plastic is causing to public health and the environment. The monster we keep feeding is eating us up.

Smaragda Nitsopoulou, Ars Moriendi: Ubi sunt or where are those who were before us? / Memento mori / Vanité (2016-2018, 6’)

Ars Moriendi is comprised of 3 separate and yet related works orbiting around the same themes of death and memory. The goal of this series is an introspect look of the personal and at the same time oecumenical non-experience of death and the fear of oblivion, treated as the only possible way of global solidarity. The political and artistic scope is underlined by the use of archival footage and voice over of different languages and themes.

Manolis Mavris, Μaneki Νeko (2017, 19’)

“Maneki Neko” is a psychoanalytic erotic thriller that lingers between the imaginary and realistic, with enigmatic transitions from the everyday to fantasy and back. The film takes place in a taxi driving through Athens. In this taxi, the past meets the future and the protagonist’s worries clash with his desires.

Loukianos Moschonas, Jeunes hommes à la fenêtre (2017, 18’)

Two graphic designers at work, by mistake, start playing with an empty scanner’s possibilities. They venture into assumptions, eventually open up to each other, and let go of the strange images, until they let go of themselves.

Daphné Hérétakis, Archipelagos, naked granites (2014, 25’)

Between bereaved desires and lost hopes, a film diary bangs against the walls of the city. The daily life of a country in crisis, the inertia of revolution, the individual issues that confront the political, questions of survival that confront ideals. Can we still ask the simplest questions?

Despoina Kourti, Ourania (2017, 16′)

Ourania is a middle-aged woman who has neglected herself. An unknown young man who suddenly appears in her life will help her rediscover her feminine nature.

Neritan Zinxhiria, The Time of A Young Man About To Kill (2015, 19’)

In the mountains of Northern Albania, a young man seeks revenge for his father’s death. The murderer has disappeared a few months ago and the police is still looking for him. The young man kidnaps the killer’s only son and raises him up until he reaches his 16th birthday, when according to the Kanun, the Albanian law of revenge, a child becomes a man and he is allowed to kill or to be killed.