“We live with the illusion of continuity, the illusion that things are going forwards, whereas in reality we are living in the light of a dead star”
– Dimitris Dimitriatis 1977
Capitalism and its Crisis are portrayed through the echoes they leave on the landscape of Athens, reflecting a post-apocalyptic vision of a city abandoned, strewn with the scars of past struggles, stuck in an era of permanent crisis.
Dis Astro – A dark star
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DisAstro premiered at Jihlava festival in the Czech Republic in 2017 and went on to play at festivals around the world. In 2018 it won “Best Experimental Short Film” at The Chhatrapati Shivaji International Film Festival in India and was shown at the Whitechapel Gallery in London.
“It doesn’t really fit to say that I ‘enjoyed’ it. The truth of the unimproved image-stream is too naked, and self-evident, to be enjoyed. But I certainly appreciated it. And, to a measure, the austerity and remorselessness of your witnessed and justified critique. The ugly interbreeding of corporate capital, Olympic follies and enclosures, sanctioned mendacity, political impotence is laid bare; or, more than bare. Naked skeletal obscenities.“
– Iain Sinclair