Screenings

Screening of Banquet d’anniversaire at Beirut Art Center

Wednesday, Feb 5, 2014
8:00pm -> 9:30pm
Beirut Art Center

Georges Didi-Huberman and Arno Gisinger are conceiving a program of parallel events in which videoworks born out of the Lebanese milieu meet with a selection of “atlas of images” emerging from different contexts.

Banquet d’anniversaire. (Histoire muette des Balkans), Greece, 67’, 1995.

Banquet d’anniversaire (histoire muette des Balkans) is a kind of atlas of the origins of Balkan cinema. Having worked with source materials for Theo Angelopoulos’ films, he has developed a deep knowledge of these archives. Current events, urban dramas, comedies, bucolic vaudevilles, as well as films by the Manakia Brothers, predecessors of Balkan cinema, find their way into Banquet d’anniversaire.

Fotos Lamprinos studied cinema at the VGIK in Moscow with Mikhail Romm. He is a Greek documentary maker who has produced over 300 works.

Entry: 3,000 LL