Alpha 2

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the first crowdfunded feature in Greece 

This is the second post about the Alpha movie. The first part is here

Cast:

Stathis Athanasiou – Film Director, Screenwriter, Editor

Pedro Olalla – Helenist, Writer, Filmmaker

Michael Kloukinas – Still Photographer, DoP, Video Artist 

Michael Samiotis – Production Designer

Stavros Gasparatos – Composer

Theo Abazis – Composer, Theatre Director

Nikos Tsines – Sound Designer

Bruno Freire León - Musician, Music Journalist

Serafita Grigoriadou – Actress

Tasos Karakyklas – Actor

David Fernandez Fabu – Actor

Kostas Sfakianakis – Production Manager

  

Venue of shooting: Mount Parnitha

Parnitha suffered extensive damage from a wildfire on Thursday, June 28, 2007 around the morning and noon hours, continuing for several days and burning approximately 56 km² of land; one of the worst recorded wildfires in the prefecture after that of Penteli. The magnitude of the devastation was unforeseen. A smaller fire had, however, taken place in the 1960s.

The fire consumed forests in two prefectures. Firefighters, helicopters, and planes were brought into action across the mountain area and its edges fighting the enormous blaze,which took days to contain. It spread rapidly with the help of intense winds, and intensified into the northwestern edges of Greater Athens, including both Ano Liosia and towns and villages such as Fyli, near Thrakomakedones, Pyli and both Skoura and Schimatari north of the mountain. 

From Athens, inhabitants could see the mountainside burning throughout the night. In Schimatari in Boeotia, it ruined several acres of forest and businesses. The fire claimed an 80% proportion of the rare Greek Fir and Aleppo Pine forest, 150 animals of the red deer population (an endangered species), birds, and other rare animals. 

The remains of the green firs and pines are sporadically located around its edges. The smoke from the massive destruction formed a line that traveled east over Attica, southern Euboea, Chios, to the edge of Turkey, at a distance of approximately 350 km. [ source ]

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Flashing lights have ended now

flashing lights have ended now

no more of those days

days when we could let it show

cut it up and watch them grow

only found in photographs

the feeling haunts the past

the silence walks between us

the silence seems to last

so lay back down if you wake up 

and lay it out to dry

I've been trapped in parking lots 

wishing I could fake a smile

I will learn to grow detached

I will realize

all the days we spent inside

changing color of our eyes

your words harness energy

Ι've seen it in the past

Ι've got something different

something that will last

and looking back in photographs

the basement held a light

candles set by steady hands

show our faces to the night

can we change the way we feel

did you say "don't look back"?

sunday morning's looking up

the night has gone, the sun comes back

Foxes In Fiction

Mehr Als Schein - Αυτό Που Φαίνεται

MEHR ALS SCHEIN / SHINING THROUGH / ΑΥΤΟ ΠΟΥ ΦΑΙΝΕΤΑΙ

Within the framework of Zone D by Zoumboulakis Galleries, the group exhibition "Mehr Als Schein / Shining Through / Αυτό που φαίνεται", curated by visual artist Mark Noll, opens on 17 May 2013 at the new Zoumboulakis Galleries’ building.

The exhibition, in which 19 artists participate (who live and work in Germany, in Greece and in Cyprus), is held in a neoclassical building in Ermou Street near important archeological areas (the Acropolis, the Keramikos ancient cemetery, the Ancient Agora of Athens etc.).

 

As Mark Noll writes: “Appearances are deceptive, beauty is only skin-deep. Attractive surfaces have often invited suspicion in the intellectual mind and been associated with shallowness or even worse deception. The essential substance - like contents, meaning or truth - on the other hand, is always expected to hide behind the surface.

 

 The show Shining Through is not focusing on the alleged deficit of the surface, but it is aiming to reveal that first of all a surface is an aesthetic phenomenon that does not derive from contents nor serves as mere, superficial decoration. Surface first of all renders a sensual dimension.

 

 It´s the concept of the show to present both Greek and German artists who are preoccupied with the aesthetics of the surface and who are united in their effort to explore how the effect and the appearance of the surface can be reinterpreted in different media.”.

 

Artists: Alexiou Nikos, Bassanos Kostas, Bitsikas Xenofon, Christopoulos Kostas, Faust Jeanne, Ganas Iannis, Goldschmidt Dorothea, Kailiang Yang, Kelm Katia, Krause Inge, Loizidou Maria, Maike Sander, May Ruth, Noll Mark, Papaconstantinou Nina, Pichler Michalis, Xagoraris Zafos, Zacharioudakis Manolis, Zenner Barbara.

 

A three lingual (German/Greek/English) special edition will be published by FUTURA Editions within the context of the exhibition, including indicative works and accompanied by texts written by Ludwig Seyfarth and Mark Noll.

 

Shadow of a man

don't look at me with sad eyes, tonight
can you show me one more smile
and let the room shine through the night
until the bed is claimed by daylight

I saw a man standing on that hill
walking around like he's got no one
will I end up like him, all alone?
girl, when you go I've got no soul

where has your soul gone to?
your shadow is coming through
where has my soul gone to?

I'm a shadow of a man

walking down these back streets
looking a place where we will meet
to know that I can't ever leave, no
until my foot print wash to the sea

I saw a man standing on that hill
walking around like he's got no one
will I end up like him, all alone?
girl, when you go I've got no soul

where has your soul gone to?
your shadow is coming through
where has my soul gone to?
I'm a shadow of a man

in so far as I know
in so far as it goes
I will be home in too long

I saw a man standing on that hill
walking around like he's got no one
will I end up like him, all alone?
girl, when you go I've got no soul








where has your soul gone to?
your shadow is coming through
where has my soul gone to?
I'm a shadow of a man
where has my soul gone to?

I'm a shadow of a man

Bedouin Soundclash

Sunday's Buildings

"We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us." 

--Winston Churchill

 

 

"There are so many constraints on the architect that public buildings almost never feel free or enjoyable." 

--Toyo Ito



 

 

 

 

"You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings." 

--Yeardley Smith