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Greek Film Archive
48 Iera Odos St & 134–136 Megalou Alexandrou St, 104 35 Kerameikos, Athens
 

19 January, 19:00–21:00 | Ticket: €3.50
Screening and project presentation by curator Panos Fourtoulakis, as part of the 2025 ARTWORKS Grants talk programme.

Artists: Shaheen Ahmed, Shadi Habib Allah, Sky Hopinka, Katerina Komianou, Simon Lässig, Manolis D. Lemos, Eleni Bagaki, Bahar Noorizadeh, Valentin Noujaïm, Louiza Ntourou, Lydia Ourahmane, Leslie Thornton, Eleni Tomadaki

22–23 January, 18:30–23:30 | Ticket: €7 per evening
Last Movies by Stanley Schtinter

Thu 22/1 | 18:30–23:30

Franz Kafka (d. 1924) — The Kid (Charlie Chaplin, 1921)
John Dillinger (d. 1934) — Manhattan Melodrama (W. S. Van Dyke / George Cukor, 1934)
Sergio Leone (d. 1989) — I Want to Live! (Robert Wise, 1958)
Pier Paolo Pasolini (d. 1975) — Oedipus Rex (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1967)

Fri 23/1 | 18:30–23:30

Bette Davis (d. 1989) — Waterloo Bridge (James Whale, 1931)
Bruce Chatwin (d. 1989) — Herdsmen of the Sun (Werner Herzog, 1989)
Kurt Cobain (d. 1994) — The Piano (Jane Campion, 1993)
Stanley Kubrick (d. 1999) — Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick, 1999)
 

Following a series of presentations in various cinemas in Athens last December, everynight concludes at the Greek Film Archive.

Based on the dream experiences of contemporary artists from Greece and around the world, the program continues at the Greek Film Archive with a final screening on Monday, 19 January (7–9 p.m.), which will be preceded by a presentation of the project by curator Panos Fourtoulakis, as part of the 2025 ARTWORKS Grants talk series.

everynight concludes with the lecture-screening-performance Last Movies by British artist and filmmaker Stanley Schtinter, presented in two parts on Thursday 22nd and Friday 23rd January 2026. 

Last Movies is an alternative account of the first century of cinema, according to the final films watched by a constellation of its most notable stars shortly before (or at the time of) their deaths.

Stretching almost from the inception of the film medium with Franz Kafka watching Charlie Chaplin's The Kid, to the present day with Jean-Luc Godard watching his own Phony Wars, Last Movies parasitises the available history of film, expands upon, approves and disproves it; recasting and clarifying the column inches of cinema’s mythological hearsay as reliable witness to the contingencies that ultimately order all of our lives.

Last Movies is a celebration of life via the medium that imitates it, and an invitation for an audience to see what those who no longer see last saw.

Stanley Schtinter has been described as ‘the last avant-garde’ by British writer and filmmaker, Iain Sinclair. Projects include Schneewittchen (2025), starring Julie Christie and Toby Jones, which recently premiered at International Film Festival Rotterdam, the British Film Institute and Anthology Film Archives; Last Movies (2023–), a book published by Tenement Press and screening series the subject of a five-month residency at London's ICA; The Lock-In (2022–) at the Barbican Centre and Oberhausen Short Film Festival; Important Books (or, Manifestos Read by Children) (2021-2022) at Whitechapel Gallery. He is also the founder and director of record label purge.xxx and the Liberated Film Club.

Note: Films and excerpts will be presented with Greek subtitles. The artist’s lecture-performance will be in English.

everynight is curated by Panos Fourtoulakis and realised with the financial support and under the auspices of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture. It is supported by the 2025 ARTWORKS Grants programme, which is funded by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) and other individual donors, as well as the support of NEON Organization for Culture and Development. The closed Alphaville cinema was generously made available by Fournos Theatre and Fournos Lab. The programme at Alphaville was realised with the support of Onassis AiR.

Programme 

2–14 December 2025
Pre-feature screenings at
Cine Athenée, Lefkosias 43, Athina 112 53
Mikrokosmos Cinema, Leof. Andrea Siggrou 106, Athina 117 41
Diana Cinema, Perikleous 14, Marousi 151 22
Studio New Star Art Cinema, Stavropoulou 33, Athina 112 52

15–16  December 2025
Programme at the derelict cinema Alphaville
Mavromichali 168, Exarcheia 114 72
Opening hours: 
Mon 15 Dec: 19:00–00:00
Tue 16 Dec: 17:00–00:00
Music and readings from 21:00 each night

22–23 January 2026
Last Movies
The Greek Film Archive, Meg. Alexandrou 136, Athina 104 35
Thu 22 Jan: 18:30–23:30
Fri 23 Jan: 18:30–23:30
 

everynight invites thirteen international artists from Algeria, France/Lebanon, Germany, India, Iran/Canada, Palestine, Greece and the USA to present moving-image works drawing on experienced and imagined dreams. Participating artists include Shaheen Ahmed, Eleni Bagaki, Shadi Habib Allah, Sky Hopinka, Katerina Komianou, Simon Lässig, Manolis D. Lemos, Bahar Noorizadeh, Valentin Noujaïm, Louiza Ntourou, Lydia Ourahmane, Leslie Thornton, Eleni Tomadaki.

Amid overlapping catastrophes, the present seems incomprehensible, reduced to fragments - to a stream of "content" endlessly competing for our attention. Using the dream as a lens, everynight explores how the sleeping mind offers a means to reclaim reality. Anchored in the ever-evolving urban landscapes of Athens, the project traces an intimate cartography of the city and the world, in which Athens serves as both subject and backdrop.

Dreams unfold as portals, merging places and times into one another: Filopappou Hill opens onto the outskirts of Delhi; a short-let flat with views of the Acropolis gives way to ruins of demolished houses from eras long passed; a meeting and a farewell play out as public fountains, a statue under the moon, and the Athenian sunset all shot in black and white on Super 8 turn otherworldly. Voyeuristic glimpses into neighbouring apartments on Marni Street intertwine with a Hollywood melodrama and domestic sounds; images of violent street marches dissolve into church candles, that in turn dissolve into winter landscapes in which birds fly above naked trees, while other birds cross the clear blue sky and morph into bomb-dropping fighter jets. 

Humpback whales on the brink of extinction try to reach us with their songs. Recollections of a shattering adolescent moment condense beauty and suffering into hallucinatory images, while other memories and feelings continually transform, resisting fixed forms as they appear through abstract hand drawn animation.

Elsewhere, echoes of collapsed worlds reverberate through the industrial ruins of Manchester; scattered and reassembled landscapes of once-indigenous lands surface as poetic reflections, memorial places of colonial plunder. Childhood Cold War dreams are followed by visions of a future in which the credit-banking system appears as a time-travelling machine. 

Starting from 2 December, and for two weeks, everynight will take place during the regular programmes at Cine Athenée, Diana Cinema, Mikrokosmos and Studio New Star Art Cinema. Inserted among the trailers before the night’s feature films, each work will gently disrupt the routine of the movie-going experience, opening up space for unexpected encounters.

From 15 to 16 December, these works will be shown together at Exarcheia’s derelict cinema Alphaville; closed since 2008, Alphaville opens for 48 hours to host a loose sequence of moving-image works, live music, a site-responsive intervention, and poetry readings. Musician Viki Steiri performs a live set for cello and electronics. Poet and writer Dimitra Ioannou, artists Jack McConville, Rallou Panagiotou, and E Scourti, among others, read texts drawn from their dreams as a way to make sense of Athens.

Chrysanthi Koumianaki’s intervention explores the interplay between private and public identities as shaped by the shifting realities of gentrified urban spaces, speaking to the remnants of the cinema’s past lives. 

everynight concludes in January 2026 with Stanley Schtinter’s Last Movies. Presented as a lecture–screening–performance at the Greek Film Archive, Last Movies sequences a century of Western cinema through the final films viewed by key cultural figures of the twentieth century before dying – Kurt Cobain, Bette Davis, Franz Kafka and Pier Paolo Pasolini, among others – inviting audiences to “see what those who see no more last saw.”

Curated by Panos Fourtoulakis and developed in collaboration with the artist-run space 3 137, everynight is realised with the financial support and under the auspices of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture. It is supported by the 2025 ARTWORKS Grants programme, which is funded by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) and other individual donors, as well as the support of NEON Organization for Culture and Development. The programme at the derelict cinema Alphaville is realised with the support of Onassis AiR.
 

Credits
Moving-image works: Shaheen Ahmed, Eleni Bagaki, Shadi Habib Allah, Sky Hopinka, Katerina Komianou, Simon Lässig, Manolis D. Lemos, Bahar Noorizadeh, Valentin Noujaïm, Louiza Ntourou, Lydia Ourahmane, Leslie Thornton, Eleni Tomadaki
Installation: Chrysanthi Koumianaki
Live music: Viki Steiri
Readings: Dimitra Ioannou, Jack McConville, Rallou Panagiotou, E Scourti, and more
Lecture-performance: Stanley Schtinter
Curation: Panos Fourtoulakis
Co-curation of readings: Dimitra Ioannou
Communication: Fotini Barka
Editing & proofreading / Translation: Apostolos Vassilopoulos
Subtitles: Melissanthi Υannousi
Visual Identity: Typical Organisation

Last December, Eleni Bagaki, Nicolas Cilins, Manolis D. Lemos, Katerina Komianou, Louiza Ntourou, and Eleni Tomadaki shared dreams they experienced or imagined through primarily new, silent, moving image works; projected in a night-long loop in Vatsaxi street. These private experiences will be presented again publicly over three nights, from Tuesday, January 28 until Thursday, January 30, from 21:00 to midnight. 

In the video collage Marni 25, Athens (2024), Eleni Bagaki voyeuristically looks into her neighboring apartments while scenes from a long-forgotten Hollywood film she found in a rubbish bin, play in the background. Atmospheric images of an open yet empty bar nearby where desire is often transactional are accompanied by Nicolas Cilins’s own reflections in Billboard for S (2024). Dreaming in black and white, Katerina Komianou captures the dramatic scene where Thiseaus saves Ipodamia from a drunken centaur as depicted on the statue on Victoria Square, in her Super-8 film Arpagi [Abduction, 2024]. A dream turns into a nightmare as birds that fly free across the clear blue sky turn into fighter aircrafts that throw bombs in Strip Silence (2024) by Louiza Ntourou. Ιn Vague Expressions (2020), Manolis D. Lemos mediates a mental fog, or a so-called clouding of consciousness, through AI-generated continually morphing abstract landscapes. These landscapes are juxtaposed with Eleni Tomadaki’s hand-drawn animations that delve into the dynamics of touch and distance, exploring how identity is shaped through conformity and external expectations, in Touch (2024). 

Alongside the silent moving image works, in this second project iteration, the mediation of dreams is also explored through sound. After all, dreams are not inherently soundless; they can include auditory elements that feel vivid, contributing to the overall sensory experience of the dream. Composer, cellist, pianist, and artist Viki Steiri will mediate her own dreams through a live performance of cello on Wednesday, January 29, at 21:00, on Vatsaxi Street. 

The project approaches this often-quiet street as a scenography where personal explorations of unconscious experiences become embedded with the urban landscape. By bringing together mediations on diverse feelings and mental states each artist privately had, in close physical proximity to one another, the project develops a subjective and limited mapping of the present moment in this area of the city through the reflections of some people living in it. 

Silent Night continues a series of artistic interventions curated by Panos Fourtoulakis that have taken place at 6 Vatsaxi Street over the past two years, responding to the street’s context and its surrounding area. The project explores the ever-evolving landscape of the Athens city center, the ways artists engage with public spaces, and the interplay between private and public identities and environments. 

At the same time, it marks the beginning of a collaboration between Panos Fourtoulakis and 3 137 as part of its 2024–2025 artistic program. The Where Time Becomes a Loop project, curated by Panos Fourtoulakis, will delve deeper into these themes, focusing on artists’ moving image practices – experiments in a medium that has been underrepresented over the years in the Greek art scene. 

3 137 invites Panos Fourtoulakis to curate its 2024–2025 artistic program, using its infrastructure, resources, and network. This invitation marks a new chapter in the history of the organization, which celebrates its 13 years of operation in 2025, and aims to highlight issues related to artistic creation, the ecosystem of contemporary art, and labor in the cultural sector in Greece. 

Credits 

Artists: Eleni Bagaki, Nicolas Cilins, Manolis D. Lemos, Katerina Komianou, Louiza Ntourou, Viki Steiri, Eleni Tomadaki 

Curated by: Panos Fourtoulakis 

Production: Kosmas Nikolaou 

Copy Editing: EG Figure of Speech (Eleanna Papathanasiadi, Geli Mademli) 

Communication: Fotini Barka 

Photo Documentation: Nefeli Papaioannou 

Event Support: Athinodoros Chatzipanagiotou 

Supporters 

The Where Time Becomes a Loop artistic program is realized with the financial support and is held under the auspices of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture, as well as with the support of NEON Organization for Culture and Development. The production of the Silent Night screening series is supported by Onassis AiR. 

October is here, and we are very happy to invite you to our booth at the Athens Art Book Fair from the 4th till the 6th of October, and on Sunday the 6th, to join us at Eleusina for a cooking adventure for young visitors at the workshop Tandoor – Boulangerie – Bakery.

Visit our joint table with the Office of Hydrocommons at the Athens Art Book Fair and support our program by purchasing our publication After the Explosion, You Still Hear the Light. This publication compiles material gathered through an extensive process of collective research. Especially for the occasion of the Athens Art Book Fair, we have reprinted the previously out-of-print publication Around Labour, Art, and the Auratic Condition (This is not a Love Song).

ATHENS ART BOOK FAIR Event Details:

Location: Stoa Tristrato, with entrances at Stadiou 29, Aristidou 6, and Dragatsaniou 6 (Athens 105 59).
Nearest Metro Stations: Panepistimio (3-minute walk) and Omonoia (5-minute walk).
Opening Hours:
Friday (04.10): 17:00–21:00
Saturday (05.10) & Sunday (06.10): 13:00–21:00

Website: www.athensartbookfair.gr

Tandoor – Boulangerie – Bakery: A workshop with 3 137 on Sunday 06.10

What do children eat in bakeries in other parts of the world? What is bread called in different languages? How do they make it? When do they eat it? What do they serve it with? We invite children to become bakers and join the first children’s bakery of Elefsina. Imagination, tasting skills, and a desire to travel are required!
In the workshop, children will be divided into groups and create different bread recipes inspired by places near and far across the world. We will dress up, travel with our minds, and cook with our hearts!

Location: Oasis – Former Campsite, Filikis Eterias & Krhtis, 192 00 Elefsina
Ages: 8–11 years old
Time slots: 16:00–17:00 and 17:30–18:30
To register, please fill in this form: Jotform

Drawing on an extensive exploration of bread through an imagined journey across the Mediterranean, the TAVROS team, in collaboration with Kostantia Manthou, have completed a publication filled with original stories, essays, myths, and beliefs about the most essential food in our region – and beyond. Before the official release of the publication, they invite the team of the 3 137 artist-run space to Elefsina, the place that inspired much of this research process, to lead a children’s workshop centered around bread as part of the 2nd Ecoculture Festival by 2023 Eleusis European Capital of Culture. This workshop aims to reconnect us with bread, a fundamental source of sustenance, in an effort to prompt us to revisit the roots of survival that are often overlooked.