* epikaira: current, present, actual, timely, opportune, well-timed, seasonable, in season, a propos, in good time, at the right/appropriate time, dominant, dominating, strategic, effective, suitable, newsreel, newsfilm.
anepikaira: the opposite of epikaira.
we are currently working through the documentation.. you can read a bit more about the project here.
wednesday may 6
after hours
tired and blurry but we still managed to deinstall almost everything the same night, thanks to the best self-organized late night crew ever.
stamati, alexi, niko, christo, iosif, maria, elena – euxaristoume para polu!
tickets
filling paper bags with pasatempo (sunflower seeds)
hoping to pass some time together after the screening..
(thank you lia and elena!)
the day before, cables and cables
“but all that’s down there is trash” says the neighbor from upstairs.. we invite her to come on wednesday..
getting ready.. we paint the screen
“γραμμή κυνδίνου”
abstract porn
cinema paradiso
we make covers for the chairs
(and i feel bad for liking plastic so much..)
digging through old newspapers..
nosztalgia
short article about cinema theaters, intimacy, sex, public/private space, the state
lefebvre on the relationship between space and and the social construction of intimacy
http://www.nosztalgia.net/cms/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=12
making porn boring
On why pornography is a difficult scholarly subject:
…It remains only to admit to a final difficulty: that which proceeds from the extraordinarily platitudinous nature of scholarly discourse when it is brought to bear on a commercial enterprise entirely dedicated to pleasure and enjoyment. Pornography and science are both products of a society that very clearly distinguishes and separates the activities of the body from those of the mind. Because sex, like sports, is an exemplary activity of the body, this separation leads one to say that people of great beauty and sexual attractiveness, like great athletes, must be somewhat stupid, while we attribute to geniuses very little sex and a great deal of ugliness. Intellectuals find themselves, therefore, in little-known territory, which is no doubt why most scholarly discourses on fun careen rapidly and habitually to the outer limits of what science can produce in the way of utter boredom.
Bernard Arcand, The Jaguar and the Anteater
five common plots
Most stag films revolved around five common plots, writes William Rotsler in his 1974 book Contemporary Erotic Cinema: Plot 1. Reading or handling some phallic-shaped object arouses a woman alone at home. Masturbation follows. A man arrives, is invited inside, sexual play begins; Plot 2. A farm girl gets excited watching animals copulate. She runs into a farmhand, or a traveling salesman, and sexual play begins; Plot 3. A doctor begins examining a woman and sexual play begins; Plot 4. A burglar finds a girl in bed or rapes her or vice versa; Plot 5. A sunbather or skinny dipper gets caught and seduced.
inside
some bits from de certeau
from the practice of everyday life:
“escaping the imaginary totalizations produced by the eye, the everyday has a certain strangeness that does not surface, or whose surface is only its upper limit, outlining itself against the visible” (93)
“the ‘city’ founded by utopian and urbanistic discourse is defined by [among other things] the substitution of a nowhen, or of a synchronic system, for the indeterminable and stubborn resistances offered by traditions: univocal scientific strategies, made possible by the flattening out of all the data in a plane projection, must replace the tactics of users who take advantage of ‘opportunities’ and who, through these trap-events, these lapses in visibility, reproduce the opacities of history everywhere…” (94)
now a gym, a club, a garage
from top to bottom: Esperos (now garage), Ifigeneia (now night club), Pallas (now National Orchestra of Thessaloniki), Egnatia (now only theater plays/no movies), Navarino (now gym) – there are more..
σινεεπ
i remember passing by there very often while it was still open, always a bit scared and walking faster, worried that i would see people i know walking out of it. it used to show children movies before it turned into sex cinema..
