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...
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...
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...
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: 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...
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...
The East Has Set: A Tribute to the Smyrna Catastrophe
William and Jane Bristol Civic Auditorium 16600 Civic Center Dr, Bellflower, CA, United StatesIn commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the Catastrophe of Smyrna, this evening event includes a discussion about historical aspects and music of Asia Minor played by an ensemble led...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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).