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True to its character and fully aware of the difficulties of the times, the "Images and Aspects of Alternative Cinema" Festival, the favorite institution of cinephiles and generally those who are passionate about alternative cinema, raises the curtain again this year.
The period of preparation for the festival amidst the ongoing war in our neighbouring region brought back the reflection on the role of art in troubled times and how it can push us to broaden the way we perceive reality and its possibilities.
The Festival is an initiative of the Department of Contemporary Culture of the Ministry of Culture in collaboration with Brave New Culture and will take place from 3 to 9 June 2024 in the always welcoming courtyard of the Municipal Museum of Engraving Hambi, in Old Nicosia.
The "Images and Aspects of Alternative Cinema" Festival plays an important role in promoting the cinematic avant-garde in our country, as it focuses on the cinema of the unpredictable, a free, radical cinema that responds to the need to see the world in new ways, to expand our cinematic horizons beyond the narrative and visual boundaries to which we are accustomed.
The "Images and Aspects of Alternative Cinema" Festival 2024 consists of the following programmes. The occasion is the digital stage created by the Opéra national de Paris, one of the oldest institutions of the lyric theatre. Films dedicated to opera by well-known and less well-known directors, starring singers and dancers from the Paris Opera. A small selection of these films are presented, directed by important and aesthetically concerned directors such as Mathieu Amalric, Jafar Panahi, Sergei Loznitsa, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, etc.
(edited by Dimitris Babas)
Bill Mousoulis
: The Angel Experiments - Love, Music, Resistance
Bill Mousoulis is a Greek-Australian filmmaker based in Adelaide. He is considered a living legend of independent cinema, with a career that dates back to 1982 and has produced over 100 films in total, including eleven features. With his latest film, My Darling in Stirling (2023), he continues his independent and groundbreaking career. Mousoulis is also the founder of the Melbourne Super 8 Film Group and Senses of Cinema, considered one of the leading cinema magazines on the internet. At the upcoming 'Images and Aspects of Alternative Cinema' festival, he will attend discussions, masterclasses and film screenings, highlighting his important work.
(curated by Doros Demetriou)
Frida Liappa. Her short but rich activity established her as one of the most important and dynamic creators of the New Greek Cinema, leaving her mark in a predominantly male-dominated field. The Festival will screen the films A Life in I Remember You Leaving (1977), Apexamen (1980), The Roads of Love are Night (1981) and The Years of Great Heat (1991). In addition to her work as a director and poet, she has also worked as a writer, screenwriter and film critic.
(edited by Christiana Ioannou)
Olivier Assayas: Post-thriller
One of the most important and interesting figures on the landscape of contemporary French cinema, Olivier Assayas has a fascinating but little-seen side: his obsession with the cinematic genres of adventure and thriller. The three films that make up the program - Boarding Gate (2007), demonlover (2002), Irma Vep (1996) - are neither studies in the archetypes of these cinematic genres nor adaptations of them to the current cinematic landscape. Rather, they constitute "tweaked" and restless versions of cinematic genres, where the real world, has been mutated into a virtual, meta-universe, created either by cinematic mythologies or by the internet. At the same time, these films remain consistent with the basic direction of his filmmaking: a depiction of the complexity and complexity, both emotionally and psychologically, of the contemporary world.
(curated by Dimitris Babas)
* The programme is supported by the French Institute of Cyprus.
Marianna Christofidou: Keeping the Klimbs Kondia
YIANNA (2018-23)
Film-essay on 16 mm film
Trikanal Screening (57')
Marianna Christofidou is an artist born in Cyprus and living in Berlin. Her film work is known for its poetic approach to documentary filmmaking and storytelling that expresses the precariousness and fragility of our times. Based on her encounters with Janna - a tailor by profession and a psychic - the film is a sensitive portrayal of the forms of slow violence that women suffer in today's society. As the artist states: "For three years I kept returning to Janna, listening to her captivating stories that oscillate between deaths and miraculous cures, between a fertile soil and a now barren land, between violence and care."
(curated by Evagoras Vanezis)
Earmarked for Collision - Tearing Through Collage Animation
This special program accompanied by an exhibition of original collage works, presents the art and films of some of the most important international contemporary artists and directors of collage animation.
(curated by Giorgos Tsaggari / introduction Chris Robinson)
For the full festival programme click here
General Information
Opening time: 20.00
Venue: 55 - 59 Ammochostou Street, Nicosia
Admission for the public is free.
All screenings are for persons over 18 years old.
For more information about the Festival's programme, please contact 99 407856 or visit the Images & Views of Alternative Cinema Film Festival page on Facebook.
The Festival is supported by the Hampi Municipal Museum of Printmaking and the French Institute of Cyprus.
The Festival is supported by the Hampi Municipal Museum of Printmaking and the French Institute of Cyprus. Communication sponsor is RIK.
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