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...
Kouvenda: Hellenic Conversations
by ZoomKouvenda: Hellenic Conversations is a bi-weekly discussion forum where members of our community discuss in Greek topics of Hellenic interest. For further information, contact Dr. Simos Zenios (szenios@humnet.ucla.edu).
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...
Lethal Nationalism: Genocide of the Greeks, 1913-1923
Saint Sophia Cathedral 1324 S Normandie Ave, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesUnder the fog of war during World War 1, the genocide of the Greeks was carried out at the hands of the Ottoman and Nationalist Turks. This Genocide became the model for all Genocides to follow, Nearly a million Greeks were killed, and millions more were uprooted as part of the Ottoman and Nationalist Turks'...
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...
Angelopoulos Retrospective: Ulysses’ Gaze
Billy Wilder Theater, Hammer Museum 10899 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesUlysses' Gaze (To Vlemma tou Odissea) Greece, 1995 Theo Angelopoulos once confessed to an interviewer, “I would like to believe the world will be saved by the cinema.” Ulysses’ Gaze gives this hope form as a Greek filmmaker known as A (Harvey Keitel) becomes obsessed with finding lost reels of film shot by the Manaki...
Angelopoulos Retrospective: The Travelling Players
Billy Wilder Theater, Hammer Museum 10899 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesThe Travelling Players (O Thiassos) Greece, 1975 A powerful vision of postwar Greek history as experienced by a troupe of actors on perennial tour, The Travelling Players swept the awards at the 1975 Thessaloniki Film Festival and announced Theo Angelopoulos as a major international auteur. A multi-generational ensemble, the players drag themselves and their trunks...
Kouvenda: Hellenic Conversations
by ZoomKouvenda: Hellenic Conversations is a monthly discussion forum where members of our community discuss in Greek topics of Hellenic interest. For further information, contact Dr. Simos Zenios (szenios@humnet.ucla.edu).
Book Club | Conversation with the Author: Ersi Sotiropoulos, Τι μένει από τη νύχτα (What’s Left of the Night)
by ZoomRSVP here. To purchase a digital copy of the book, please visit the publisher's site and read the instructions provided by the publisher carefully. The book is also available in an English translation. For more information about our Book Club and the Conversation with the Author series, please contact Dr. Simos Zenios (szenios@humnet.ucla.edu).
Polymnia
Little Theater 1167 MacGowan Hall, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesPolymnia world premiere presented by the UCLA Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture Saturday, January 21, 2023 7:00 p.m. UCLA Little Theater Reception to follow Sunday, January 22, 2023 (2nd performance just added!) 2:00 p.m. UCLA Little Theater Running time: 85 minutes, no intermission Click here to view the digital program....
Polymnia
Polymnia world premiere presented by the UCLA Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture Saturday, January 21, 2023 7:00 p.m. UCLA Little Theater Sunday, January 22, 2023 2:00 p.m. UCLA Little Theater Running time: 85 minutes, no intermission Click here to view the digital program. Theodosia Roussos, composer/librettist Michiel Delanghe, conductor Diana...