Athens, My Love | Big Short Films 2024
Athens, My Love by Dimitris Kechris
Best Documentary Award, Student National Competition, 46th Drama International Short Film Festival (2023)
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Available at onassis.org from 16 - 26.10.2024
“Athens, My Love” is an essay film that looks for mnemonic traces of major political events inscribed in the body of the metropolitan entity of Athens. It focuses on case studies potentially comprising a counter-hegemonic history from the mid-20th century to the early 21st century, in which the logos and praxis of individual or collective subjects have been suppressed till death. These are historical events and processes that official history has either neglected and marginalized or cleansed of their association with an insurrectionist potential. The film develops around interviews with architects and historians, makes use of archive material, and employs fictional elements, all of which are contextualized by a voice-over articulated as a dialogue. “Athens, My Love” claims a zone of articulation between formal institutionalized mechanisms (which claim objectivity) and fragments of memory (which often lie in the domain of subjective contemplation).
Written & Directed by Dimitris Kechris
Director of Photography: Dimitris Kechris
Camera Operators: Dimitris Kechris, Nikos Dalezios, Vangelis Tatsis
Voice-over: Dimitris Kechris, Kalliopi Tzermani
Editing: Dimitris Kechris
Color Grading: Nikos Dalezios
Original Music: Nikos Tsolis
Sound Design: Nikos Dalezios, Nikos Tsolis
Featuring (in alphabetical order): Menelaos Charalampidis, Angela Dimitrakaki, Dimitris Kechris, Stavros Stavrides
Producer: Dimitris Kechris
Supported by the Athens School of Fine Arts
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