FILM SCREENING
Short films by Yorgos Zois
CASUS BELLI, Greece, 2010, 35mm, c/r, 11’
All kinds of people are waiting in seven different queues. The first person of each queue becomes the last of the next one, thus creating an enormous human line. But at the end of the line, it all begins backwards again.
OUT OF FRAME, Greece, 2012, DCP, c/r, 10’
Billboard advertisements were recently banned in Greece. As a result there are hundreds of empty frames carrying no message. But the empty frames are now the message. And we are out of frame.
EIGHTH CONTINENT, Greece, 2017, DCP, c/r, 11’
In Lesvos, an old abandoned dump lies on a mountain with two big craters overflowing with thousands of life jackets once used by refugees. A worker is the only inhabitant of this place that resembles an alien planet or a new continent.
THIRD KIND, Greece-Croatia, 2018, color, 32’
Earth has been abandoned a long time now and the human race has found refuge in outer space. Three archeologists return to earth to investigate where a mysterious five tone signal is coming from…
Swiss House of Culture, Research and Diplomacy • Palaiologou Benizelou 5, 105 56 Athina, Greece