LMU Greek Cinema
Prof. Katerina Zacharia has been teaching Greek cinema at LMU since 2000, showing how this essentially non-literary medium can be enhanced and enriched by an awareness of the long Greek cultural tradition. Her courses offer students the opportunity to appreciate and reflect on a selection of Greek films in their historical, political, and cultural setting. Films made in Greece often challenge our notions of what filmmaking is and what purposes film might serve. The challenge is to understand these films on their own terms while we expand our own, and we become an audience for whom Greek cinema is not “foreign” but essential to our experience as people who share a complicated world.
Artist in Residence: Dimitris Papaioannou
We are thrilled to welcome Dimitris Papaioannou to LMU as Artist in Residence Feb. 16-27, 2026. An internationally renowned director and choreographer, he began as a painter and comics artist before establishing Edafos Dance Theatre in 1986. His iconic work MEDEA (1993) and the Athens 2004 Olympic Ceremonies marked his impact on large-scale experimental theatre. Papaioannou will join LMU class sessions, screenings, discussions, and more during his time at LMU.
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