Humanities
Film Screening: Last Voyage
Cinemark Downey 8840 Apollo Way, Downey, CA, United StatesA documentary based on the writings of Nikos Kazantzakis' travels in the Far East. The film's director Aris Chatzistefanou will join us for Q & A following the screening. Co-sponsored by the Hellenic Library, the Friends of Nikos Kazantzakis in Los Angeles, Southern California Cretans Association, Cretans Omonoia of Orange County
Angelopoulos Retrospective: Voyage to Cythera
Billy Wilder Theater, Hammer Museum 10899 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesVoyage to Cythera (Taxidi sta Kithira) Greece, 1984 After years living in exile in the Soviet Union, a communist resistance fighter, Spyros (Manos Katrakis), returns home to the dismay of his family and neighbors. His son Alexandros (Giulio Brogi) is a filmmaker casting a movie set during the German occupation while the villagers of his...
Angelopoulos Retrospective: The Suspended Step of the Stork & The Beekeeper
Billy Wilder Theater, Hammer Museum 10899 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesThe Suspended Step of the Stork (To Meteoro Vima tou Pelargou) Greece, 1991 The plight of refugees in the Balkans and internationally dominated much of Theo Angelopoulos’ attention in the 1990s, leading to two of his most acclaimed films, Ulysses' Gaze (1995) and Eternity and a Day (1998). The Suspended Step of the Stork, which...
Byzantine Studies Conference
LuskinWe welcome the Byzantine Studies Association of North America (BSANA) and participants to the 48th Annual Byzantine Studies conference at UCLA! Most conference activities will take place at the Luskin Conference Center and Hotel on the UCLA campus.
Angelopoulos Retrospective: Alexander the Great
Billy Wilder Theater, Hammer Museum 10899 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesAlexander the Great (O Megalexandros) Greece, 1980 Theo Angelopoulos insisted that Alexander the Great was his “most simple film” to date for its linear structure, beginning on New Year’s Eve 1900 and proceeding from there. The film’s straightforward chronology, however, belies the complex interplay of Greek Orthodox and Byzantine liturgy, music, and ritual that Angelopoulos...
Angelopoulos Retrospective: The Hunters
Billy Wilder Theater, Hammer Museum 10899 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesThe Hunters (I Kynighi) Greece, 1977 When a hunting party finds the body of a communist partisan perfectly preserved in the snow, they carry it back to their lakeside lodge to open a formal inquest. Representatives of the conservative elite—politicians, military officers, businessmen, media figures—who have gathered to celebrate New Year’s Eve 1977, they are...
Angelopoulos Retrospective: The Weeping Meadow
Billy Wilder Theater, Hammer Museum 10899 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesThe Weeping Meadow (To Livadi pou Dakryzei) Greece, 2004 A family history told in wide shot, The Weeping Meadow spans the turbulent decades between 1919 and the end of the Greek Civil War in 1949 as they buffet the lives of Eleni (Alexandra Aidini) and her adoptive brother and lover Alexis (Nikos Poursanidis). Taken in...
Evita Arapoglou, “Asia Minor Hellenism: Heyday – Catastrophe – Displacement – Rebirth”
by ZoomIn this lecture, part of the Hellenic Together 4.0 series held in collaboration with the Benaki Museum in Athens, exhibition curator Evita Arapoglou leads us through "Asia Minor Hellenism: Heyday - Catastrophe - Displacement - Rebirth." This program is supported by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF). About the Exhibit Visitors to the exhibition begin their...
Theo Angelopoulos: A Retrospective for the Present (Online panel discussion)
by ZoomThis panel brings together distinguished scholars of Greek cinema to discuss the Greek director's enduring contributions to a global cinema of time, history, and social crisis. Our speakers will discuss various aspects of Angelopoulos’s contemporaneity, from the global impact of his distinctive filmic style and the philosophical dimensions of his visual language to the cinematic...
Angelopoulos Retrospective: The Dust of Time
Billy Wilder Theater, Hammer Museum 10899 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesThe Dust of Time Greece/Italy/Germany/Russia, 2008 In a direct reference to Ulysses’ Gaze, The Dust of Time follows a filmmaker named A (here played by Willem Dafoe) on a journey to make a film about his parents. Moving between past and present, memory and history, fiction and reality, the film spans the second half of...
Angelopoulos Retrospective: The Broadcast; Athens, Return to Acropolis; Reconstruction
Billy Wilder Theater, Hammer Museum 10899 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesThe Broadcast (Ekpompi) Greece, 1968 In the manner of Jean Rouch’s Chronique d'un été (1961), the producers of a pop music television show hit the streets to ask women what makes the ideal man. A sharp satire on consumerism and escapism after the military junta known as the Regime of the Colonels seized power the...
My Rembetika Blues
Royce Hall, 314 UCLAFilm screening and discussion with filmmaker Mary Zournazi. My Rembetika Blues is a film about the power of music and what makes us human. Rembetika music or the Greek blues is a music of the streets and a music of refugees. The film explores the heart and soul of Rembetika music through peoples’ stories of...