The International Experimental Film Festival is a four-day cinema festival organized in Athens, with the participation of 60 directors from 20 countries. The International Experimental Film Festival invites us to look at the world in new ways. We are searching for stories from parts of everyday life that remain hidden, unknown images of our societies, new ideas and inspiration.
Thursday 26 to Sunday 29 October 2023
Free entry / voluntary donation
Free Social Space ALTAI
Themistokleous 65 Exarchia
International Experimental Film Festival seeks to expand the possibilities of film beyond traditional formats and spaces, creating a zone of creative contagions between analog and digital, creating a meeting place for cinema and the visual arts, filmmaking and critical thinking, history and research of the contemporary social conditions.
Experimental cinema is a free, radical and purposeful cinema that responds to the aesthetic, political or philosophical need to see and explore cinematic horizons, away from large industries and hegemonic formulas of creation. It is through experimental cinema that we find authentic ways to create audiovisual art.
A cinema that breaks the narrative, and most of all opens the visual bounds to which we’re used. A cinema that elaborates the medium to its fullest, by including even the most extreme possibilities. John Cage said it well: an experimental action is one the outcome of which is not forseen; the cinema we’re looking for is a cinema of the unpredictable.
PROGRAMME
THUR. 26/10 starts 20.00 – IRAN Honored country 2023
Introductory greeting talk on Iranian cinema and the social emancipation uprising in Iran, by Iranian actor Vassilis Koukalani
“But I liked him” Asal Gharib 20’ | “This Is Not a Film” Mahdi Hassanieh 4’28’’
“The other” Madacto Pictures 14’ | “Correction Fluid” Danial Abroushan 15’
“Drawing & Customs 21” Isa Babaei 13’| “Black Pen” Moein Hasheminasab 70′
ΠΑΡ. 27/10 | 19.00- 23.30 Archeology of the Future
“Personality Counseling Center at 0 Avenue” Ming Kang – Korea 50’18’’ | “Hail Eris!” Olympia Vlassopoulou– Greece 8’ | “And I measure” Celine Berger Germany 14’40’’ | “Original Short Film” Simon Ball – UΚ 4’22” | “So Hum” Ioanna Fragkiskou – Greece 12’20’’ | “Incognitum” Sara Angius- Germany 23’ | “Birds don’t look through the windows” Eirini Tampasouli – Greece 7’22’’ | “Potemkin Piece” Justin Rhody – USA 1’ | “60 Second Thoughts: Volume Two” David Baeumler -USA 4’ | “Brutal Moods” Marta Bisbal – Spain 58’ “Exterior Day” Giulia Magno – Italy 8’ | “Where I’m From” Sina Nazarian–Canada 29′ | “The Journey” Max Belmerrieri – France 24′
ΣΑΒΒ. 28/10 | 18.00 –23.30 Images of our era
“This is What the World Looks Like When You’re Gone” Steen Starr – Canada 11’ | “Rain, Tear and Sweat” Yuting Cai – China 14’28’’ | “Uncanny Film” Marilena Pisciella – Italy 30 ’| “Call me when you get home” Orestes Spyridakis– Greece 6’ | “Impulsive purchases through Ali Express” TapelPapiz Productora- Chile11’ | “Hantush – a fairytale” Alexia Tsouni – Greece 6’12’’ | “Birthday” Makis Moulos & Amalia Christakopoulou– Greece 42’11’’ | “The Bloom” Jody Xiong – China 3’ | “Call Sign Valhalla” Pierrede Muelenaere – Belgium 30′
“ANA (I AM) the series” Murie Aboulrouss – Lebanon 4’ + Presentation of the studio The Intuitive Film Lab from Libanon (15′)
We have designed and established the first intuitive Film Lab in the Arab World and Middle East area, which will teach and guide filmmakers to reconnect to their intuitive creative powers. Our film lab aims to induce self-awareness, a first step towards authentic creation. It also teaches artists to dissect their emotions and turn them into audio visual elements which will compose fragments of their short films. Our Film-Lab seeks the essence of each artist and protects their authenticity in Art as in Life through a wide program of artistic endeavors, thus allowing the artist to practice their intuitive muscle and trust their Gut feelings in Art as in Life.
“Evros” Kiriakos Anastasiou – Greece 6’25’’ | “18-19” Rozha Hasan – Ιraq 16’ | “JUAN” – Koratge – Spain 4’ | “This is, this was Colombia” Hernán Darío Arango- Colombia 11’ | “The Exile of the Sea” Mauricio Brunetti – Colombia 72′
ΚΥΡ. 29/10 | 18.00- 20.00
QUEER Cinema – Gender Antinomies
“The John Wayne Code” Elliott Jamal Robbins – USA 2’45’’
“Rouge” – Mieke Daneels – Belgium 78’
“I Killed You a Dozen Times” – Kris De Meester – Belgium 6’21’’
“Timeless Dialogue” George Leontakianakos – Greece 5’41’’
“The Arrival” Bryan Hewitt – USA 14’31’’
“Film Rosa” Silvia Bertocchi- Italy 15’
+ Talk (15′): Cinema & Performance – Blurring Boundaries between Visual Art and Film, Physical Actions, and Emotional Memory in Narrative Construction. From Performance Art to Video Production, Expressing the Artist’s Vision to the Final Creation. A Journey Through the Lens of Silvia Bertocchi , a 30-Year-Old Female Artist from Italy
20.00- 23.00 EARTH SOS
“Posesion Suprema” Lucas Silva – Colombia 64′
“Amalur” Egoi Suso Rius- Spain 40′
“Letter from the Age of Ecocide” Shireen Rahimi – USA 6’
“Why?” Ernesto Sarezale – United Kingdom 6’
“howtofuckthesystem” Eirini Tampasouli – Greece 4’31’’
“Parenthesis” Vasilios Papaioannu – USA 5’
“Super symmetry” – Denise Iris – USA 29’
VIDEO ART ZONE (during all festival):
“Dreaming in Aspect Ratio” – Gwendolyn Audrey Foster– USA 2’28’’ “Transmission” Nicole Blundell – Canada 2’ | “Eclipse Being” James Morgenstein – USA 6’ | “The Cost” Nicci Haynes – Australia 3’24’ | “The Ghost in The Machine” Duane Michals – USA 3’13’’ “Sleeper/Keeper” Anya Liftig – USA 59’ | “Nobody Cares / Work Harder” Pink Milkdrink – Canada 1’ | “Deep Sophia” Yvette Granata– USA 10’06’’ | “The Tortoise’s Solitude” Stylianos Papardelas – Greece 6’11’’| “Wound“ Sotiris Charizanis – Greece 63’ | “Paint On Paint # 1-8” Vasco Diogo – Portugal 28’43’’ | “Soul of Tirana” Meri Dishnica – Albania10’25’’ | “Spectral Rainbow Frequency” Hüseyin Erverdi – Turkey2’30’’ | “The Bytes Dreams are Made of“ Alessandro Amaducci – Ιtaly 67’
The International Experimental Film Festival is a pioneering space, in the exhibition of experimental content in cinema, which seeks excellence and innovation in the independent production and distribution of cinema. We celebrate aesthetic diversity, new narratives, new media and formats; a program that reveals the complexity of social, cultural and artistic phenomena. We understand experimental cinema like a divergent cinema, that vanishes and synthesize art forms, emphasizing the experimental modes of creation.
The Institute for Experimental Arts was founded in 2008 in Athens- Greece as a non-profit platform of creative expression and research in the fields of theater, performance art, digital media, installation, poetry and art theory. The Institute is committed to existing as an open meeting point for poets-writers, directors, actors, theater engineers/ technicians, performance artists, photographers, video artists and the writers who develop new analytical tools on contemporary art, media & communication.
For eleven years continuously, the Institute for Experimental Arts organizes the world famous International Video Poetry Festival. Now is the time to create a parallel festival, a public environment for experimentation in new ways to create cinema and new ways to see our world.
We invite you to the International Experimental Film Festival 2023
