With a big surprise he will open his gates this year, fourth International Anafi Film Festivalorganised from 19 to 25 June. The internationally renowned artist and worshiper of the island Dimitris Papaioannouwill, for the first time, present an early form of 'This That Keeps On / a personal archaeology“ which is the film recording of a performance created after the assignment of the Museum of Cycladic art.
In this performance Dimitris Papaioannou recruited images and bodies-chimers from his four decades of work and reborn them next to brand new elements of moving images and sculptural facilities, in a personal narrative. Bodies and materials negotiate the concepts of memory, excavation, fragility, eroticism, fusion, origin, but also the inmediate joy of life in the unique historical, geological and artistic landscape of Cyclades.
There, then, in the deep blue of the Aegean, on the island where he has spent many summers, and not in some formal Athenian hall he decided to make the first projection of the early form of film feature that is in progress, directing and editing of which he signs.
During the screening, the public will have the rare opportunity to see the work in an intermediate phase of its creative route and to gain a unique picture of the artistic process behind it. An open discussion with Dimitris Papaioannou will follow after the screening.
Otherwise this year's International Anafi Film Festival will include screenings, VR works, performances, discussions and workshops exploring the relationship between cinema and body, technology, memory and collective experience.
With the central axis "How Soon Is Now?", this year's event turns around the feeling that we are living in an era of continuous acceleration. The images are produced and disappearing constantly, political and social conditions are constantly changing, while technology is increasingly affecting the way we communicate, remember, desire and exist together.
Through films and artistic practices from around the world, the festival brings together works that converse with issues of politics, ecology, identity, digital life, queer experience and resistance. This year's program moves between documentary, essay film, experimental cinema and new image formats, creating a dialogue on how the present is recorded and experienced today.
All events will have free entrance to the public.