Photo courtesy from Film Director Evangelia Kranioti from her documentary Obscuro Barroco (2019).
With the support of the Los Angeles Greek Film Festival (LAGFF)
LMU Greek Cinema
Homage to Dionysus
March 5-12, 2024 @SFTV Broccoli Theater
Host and Curator: Katerina Zacharia
Curation Advisor: Nikos Nikolopoulos
Q&A with invited guests will follow the film screenings
The selected fiction features, documentaries, and short films tell stories that reckon with human nature’s irrational currents hidden within the self, and the state, and offer a framework for renegotiating dominant structures in society. Together they offer an homage to the most epiphanic Olympian god Dionysus. The ancient god draws men and women out of their static sense of self (ec-stasy), rendering them strangers to their own social self, to help them discover that life and death entwine and intersect, and the Same is necessarily inhabited by the Other.
The Classics & Archaeology department celebrates 24 years of Greek Cinema at LMU.
The film screenings are supported by students in Prof. Zacharia’s spring 2024 courses on Representations of Greece: Ancient and Modern, and Greek Tragedy in Performance.
The LMU Classics & Archaeology department values our 10-year LMU-LAGFF community partnership, which offers supervised internships administrated by Prof. Zacharia, LAGFF Director of Education, to LMU students. Over 200 LMU students have interned with LAGFF, and 15 SFTV faculty have served as LAGFF jurors since 2014. Our partnership with the Los Angeles Greek Film Festival promotes Greek filmmakers and cultivates an audience for Greek cinema in Los Angeles.
Our curated Homage to Dionysus Greek cinema program is co-sponsored by the departments of Classics & Archaeology, and Film, Television & Media Studies.
LMU Sponsors: Departments of Classics & Archaeology, and Film, Television & Media Studies, the Bellarmine Forum, the School of Film & Television, the College of Communication and Fine Arts, the Office of Global Local Affairs, and the Office of International Students and Scholars.
The venue for all screenings is LMU’s Broccoli Theater
The event is free and open to all.
For dates and details, view the LMU Homage to Dionysus Greek Film Screening Schedule
For more information about the LMU screenings, please contact: katerina.zacharia@lmu.edu
