The Digital Film Restoration Lab of the Greek Film Archive presents the recently restored and digitized in 4K, film, Happy Day (1976), by Pantelis Voulgaris. According
to Maria Komninou, “The film addresses the problem of [the concentration camp of] Makronisos as a microcosm of the division and split in the public sphere in Greece. [...] Voulgaris approaches his subject with a strong neo-realistic and humanistic view...”. The programme also includes the silent Georgian avant-garde film My Grandmother (1929) by Kote Mikaberidze, which lampoons the Soviet bureaucracy in a dadaist style. The film will be screened with live music by Lolek. The experimental film Return to Reason (1923), recently restored with other Man Ray films, is a surreal visual poem, with a musical score by director Jim Jarmusch. Finally, the film Black God, White Devil (1964), by Glauber Rocha, a masterpiece of the Brazilian “Cinema Novo” movement, balances audiovisual poetry with political denunciation of class exploitation and its implications on the oppressed.
Film Selection: Maria Komninos, Nepheli Gambade, Jacob Skenderidis
Coordination: Jacob Skenderidis
Introduction: Ioulia Mermigka
