KAFKA ZONE / KAFKA ALERT
As part of the exhibition Investigations of a dog; Works from the FACE Collections, the DESTE Foundation, in collaboration with the 17th International Film Festival of Athens “Conn x Premiere Nights” and the Saprophyta Group, organizes a series of events:
KAFKA ZONE
“We have long described Kafka as a 19th-century writer, yet his way of approaching the social unconscious could place him in the 21st century; in what might be the 21st-century cinema”.
(Félix Guattari, Projet pour un film de Kafka)
14 – 25/09/2011
# DANAOS 2_ 15/9, 22:00
1. Class Relations (Klassenverhaltnisse), director: Daniele Huillet, Jean Marie Straub
# ATTIKON CINEMAX CLASS_ 18/9, 17:30
The Trial, director: Orson Welles
# ASTOR_ 21/9, 18:15
Short films: Animation
The Country Doctor, director: Katariina Lillqvist
Rider On The Bucket, director: Katariina Lillqvist
The Chamber Stork, director: Katariina Lillqvist
The Hunger Artist, director: Tom Gibbons
KAFUKA: INAKA ISHA, director: Kôji Yamamura
The Man who Waited, director: Theodore Ushev
The Metamorphosis of Mr. Samsa, director: Caroline Leaf
# ASTOR_ 21/9, 20:15
Metamorphosis: Beyond the Screen Door, director: Norith Soth
# ASTOR_ 21/9, 22:00
Short films: Live action
Telephone, director: Terry Montlick
The Hunger Artist, director: Bernard Rudden
It’s a Wonderful Life, director: Peter Capaldi
# ATTIKON CINEMAX CLASS_ 21/9, 18:45
The Trial (E) , director: Orson Welles
# DANAOS 2_ 22/9, 17:45
Metamorphosis: Beyond the Screen Door (E), director: Norith Soth
# ATTIKON CINEMAX CLASS_ 25/9, 17:00
Mr. Klein, director: Joseph Losey
KAFKA ALERT
“My condition is not unhappiness, but it is also not happiness, not indifference, not weakness, not fatigue, not another interest – so what is it then? […] All those things which occur to me, occur to me not from the root up but rather only from somewhere about their middle. Let someone then attempt to seize them, let someone attempt to seize a blade of grass and hold fast to it”.
(Franz Kafka, Diaries)
Thursday 22/09, 20:00, DESTE Foundation, Nea Ionia
Kafkaesque investigations in an evening with:
– Experimental musical happenings by Ion, Matteus, Niko Palamares, Nefeli Walking Undercover, Pan Pan, The Mountain (DJ set);
– Lectures and discussion with writers Savvas Michail, Dimitris Dimitriadis and Aristidis Antonas;
– Showings of selected films at the DESTE Foundation’s building in Nea Ionia.
Text by Aristide Antonas
Text by Dimitris Dimitriadis
Text by Savvas Michail
