This summer the Stavros Niarchos Park opens its doors to the public for the first time and turns into an open-air cinema, presenting the three-night video art program Fireflies in the Night. Organized by Robert Storr, Artistic Director, with curators Barbara London, Kalliopi Minioudaki and Francesca Pietropaolo this program of non-stop video screenings features some of the best video art produced internationally in one of the quintessential media of the late 20th and 21st centuries.
A cross between performances of classic Greek plays in an ancient theater and walk-in ‘drive-in’ movie, and projected back-to-back on one or multiple screens, the screenings will take place from dusk till dawn of the following morning. People are encouraged to come-as-they-are, to make themselves comfortable, and stay for as long as they wish.
The selection of works to be shown will encompass short as well as long format pieces and will cover a wide and inclusive range of themes, styles, and moods from brief comic “shorts” to “feature-length” dramatizations, from documentary glimpses of aspects of contemporary life in far-flung places to poetic meditation on universal existential issues and critical scrutiny of global concerns.
One of the three nights will feature all five parts of Matthew Barney’s The Cremaster Cycle (1994-2002). The program of the other two nights will bring together works by a lively combination of artists of different generations from Greece and around the world.
The program is part of the events “Light Up the Night at the Stavros Niarchos Park”
Admission is free to all events
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