Today I am, Tomorrow I'm Not (2023)
Directed by Menelaos Karamaggiolis and Døcumatism
Duration: 18 mins
The film starts by introducing the story of a blind stray dog, through a first-person narration. A continuous dialogue of images, forming an ongoing series of allegories that both embody and reflect the myths that inhabit Elefsina and the Thriasian Plain.
I Cut my Soul in the Slaughter House (2023)
Directed by Menelaos Karamaggiolis and Døcumatism
Duration: 19 mins
The cinematic depiction of unknown and invisible places, stories and heroes from the Thriassian Plain with slight zoom-ins in the city of Elefsina. The everyday life of the Romani settlement of Nea Zoi, one of the biggest settlements in Greece, considered by many the most inaccessible and dangerous, looks like the wildest Far West one could ever imagine.
A few words about Mystery 69 GREEKIES
The cinematic depiction of unknown and invisible places, stories, and characters serves as the starting point for a multimedia project that actuates key social issues through in situ multi-disciplinary arts events (the visual arts, music, dance, and video art) held in hard-to-reach spaces, with screenings and public actions that provide a platform for the voices of vulnerable social groups. The project focuses on the abandoned and traumatized strays found across the wider area of the Thriasian Plain, animals that are extremely popular for adoption outside Greece despite their clear disabilities: the Greekies.
Since 2011, Døcumatism and Menelaos Karamaghiolis have been pursuing a synchronic landscape of mysteries and social sculpture across the broader area around Elefsina with on-site screenings – a nomadic festival and alternative “museum” that “travels” freely, launching wide-ranging artistic activities that create inventive ways of interacting with the public: inaccessible lead characters are made “guides” of a nomadic action/installation that activates in situ, is easily transportable, and combines on-site experience with traditional and new technologies that cancel out constraints.
Watch the trailer here
Saturday, February 15, 2024
3:00 p.m.