Parenthesis by Vasilios Papaioannu

[may 20] PARENTHESIS in Crete for Rethymno Days! 🇬🇷

So happy that my film Parenthesis will be screened in Crete under the auspices of the amazing Video Art Miden Festival at Rethymno Days from May 20 to May 23. More details below:

“Rethymno Days” presents Video Art Miden in Rethymno (island of Crete, GR), hosting two videoart programs at the historic Venetian Church of Hagia Sophia in the historic center of the city, from 20 to 27 of May 2024.

The first videoart program that will be presented in the Venetian Church of Hagia Sophia from 20/05/2024 to 23/05/2024, 18:00-21:00 is titled “Inverse”: A selection of different approaches and expressions in video art by contemporary Greek artists, curated by Gioula & Olga Papadopoulou.
Participant artists: Katerina Katsifaraki, Vasilios Papaioannu, Stelios Dexis & Myrto Vounatsou, Angelina Voskopoulou, Evi Stamou & Pietro Radin,Zefi Athanasopoulou, Dimitra Mitsaki, Fani Sofologi, Yiannis Pappas, Fenia Kotsopoulou, Olga Papadopoulou, Magda Lampropoulou.

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[october 15] PARENTHESIS @ ITHACA EXPERIMENTAL FILM FESTIVAL ✨✨✨✨

Parenthesis will be part of Ithaca Experimental Film Festival together with other amazing works and filmmakers. It will part of the Getting No Place Fast section, screening Sunday, October 15 starting at 2pm at the legendary Cinemapolis.

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[july 2] Amazing article for "Parenthesis" 🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷

Very grateful to Simone Dompeyre, artistic director of the 26th Rencontres Internationales Traverse Film Festival that takes place in Toulouse every year for her article on my film Parenthesis.

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“Quand la parenthèse devient le texte central ; non plus une parole accessoire et distincte mais l’ensemble, le « entre », le « dans », la thèse, c’est-à-dire ce dont on parle, discute, cela donne un film de forte envolée, embarquant tout, sans distinction d’échelle, la nature, les constructions, les humains et les chats. Le Super 8 dans son grain, sa matérialité peint ce monde en traces, en traits fugitifs avec parfois, l’arrêt sur la femme souriante, sur la fenêtre donnant sur la montagne et sur ce dos de nageur/euse en seuil, préliminaire à cette excursion hors du monde policé et retrouvé avant de plonger vers les galets blancs. Cependant certains éléments s’imposent parfois inversement à leur taille : le corps de dos dont se devine la chevelure devance des cheveux volant, fouettant l’espace avant leur double en herbe dans la campagne. En effet, un relais de forme ou de potentialité attire le plan suivant : le soleil aveuglant puis la simple ampoule sous abat-jour, puis des spots sans localisation, puis la rampe lumineuse d’un tunnel automobile puis, puis. Une sauterelle sur du pain bien doré, un profil de jeune femme en intérieur, pluie sur rue dans la nuit, paysage de montagne… tout s’enchâine sans perdre haleine. Ces souvenirs sans autre tri sont portés par un bruit décisif que rien n’arrête, au volume en contrepoint avec les images de vacances, de soleil. Ainsi que la mémoire laisse courir son fil en parenthèse de la réflexion, mais en plénitude de ce que l’on a vécu et que l’on vit par Super 8 interposé.”
Simone Dompeyre

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[june 3 & 4] PARENTHESIS with LIVE SOUNDTRACK in Sweden ///////// 🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪

As part of the itinerary film festival Live Soundtrack, Parenthesis is travelling to Sweden to be screened accompanied by amazing musicians.

June 4 ~ at the Hypnos Theater in Malmö (link)

June 3 ~  at the Longest Night in Gothenburg (link)

Dimming - Linn Osterberg [https://linktr.ee/dimmingsongs]  music performance with Parenthesis

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[march 19] PARENTHESIS @ 26th Rencontres Internationales Traverse ❤️🇫🇷

Such a joy to screen Parenthesis at the 26th edition of Rencontres Internationales Traverse, Sunday March 19 at the wonderful space of Abattoirs, Musée – Frac Occitanie in Toulouse, France 1:30pm local time.

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[16-28 dec] PARENTHESIS @ HOLY ART Gallery in Athens! 🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷

So special when your project screens in your country! Parenthesis is part of the exhibition UTOPIA at the HOLY ART Gallery in Athens from December 16-28 2022!

I will see you there!

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★PARENTHESIS FIRST PRIZE EXPERIMENTAL FILM @ Film Crash★yayyYYYY💫✨🏆

Parenthesis wins the First Prize Experimental Film at the Film Crash International Film Festival in Los Angeles!

What an honor!❤️

The events of Film Crash will take place at the Laemmle Royal Theater in Santa Monica Boulevard October 15 starting at 10am.

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[october 11] PARENTHESIS @ the 18th Athens Digital Arts Festival !!!!!!!!! 🇬🇷❤️

Parenthesis is at the 18th Athens Digital Arts Festival that has chosen the theme of FutuRetro turning towards science fiction and retrofuturism -as part of futurology- to see the technological milestones of today both through the eyes of the past, and as foreshadowing for the future.

Parenthesis is part of the VIDEO ART Section Fractured Pathways that is screening this upcoming Tuesday, October 11, at 1pm (US East Coast Time) 8pm (Greece time).

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[september 21] PARENTHESIS @ the Millennium Workshop in NYC!🗽

Parenthesis will be a part of the exhibition Bookmarks of Discomfort Vol.2 at the Millennium Workshop in NYC this upcoming Wednesday, September 21st starting at 7:30pm. The exhibition is curated by the multidisciplinary artist Priyanka Das and includes amazing artists who are also wonderful friends and colleagues.

Bookmarks of Discomfort is a series of screenings/presentations to bring together artists, creators who address the idea of discomfort through visual, aural, physical and textual monographs. Often we confront our true selves, an assertive voice of being through uncomfortable situations, circumstances, crisis or struggle. Unfortunately, those moments of discomfort are often grounded on the societal hegemonic, both explicit and implied codes of being, behaving, experiencing, understanding, and interpreting. When we find ourselves in those discomfort/ challenging moments, we may respond to comply, resist, remain indifferent, revolve, reflect, observe and many more ways. These moments of discomfort present itself and affect different races, ethnicities, and individuals with collectives and communities differently. 16 diverse artists, coming together to present the idea of discomfort in their own subjective ways.

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[august 25] PARENTHESIS @ HELIOS SUN POETRY FILM FESTIVAL 🇲🇽 💫

It's such a joy when your work travels to places where you have not been. What a wonderful festival the Helios Sun Poetry Film Festival. Thank you Estefania Fanny Oloño and Carlos Cruz Martínez for supporting audiovisual poetry and my work especially.

I love you Mexico 🇲🇽 ❤️

Parenthesis is screening today in the program “Constellations” together with amazing friends and artists

Wish I was there.
Love to all
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August 25 at 7:30 p.m. at the El Rule Comunidad de Saberes
(a cultural space in the center of Mexico City).

Address: Eje Central Lázaro Cárdenas 6 Centro Histórico de la Ciudad de México
(next to the Latinoamericana tower).

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7:30 p.m. / Program exhibition: Constelaciones
8:25 p.m. / Talk with filmmakers.

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Program dedicated to audiovisual poetry that finds in its experimental nuances a way of expressing the echoes of the world through the politics of the body, movement, dream scenarios and the vibrations of the moving image that cross the borders of reality.

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[august 20] PARENTHESIS @ Defy Film Festival ❤️/////Nashville TN/////❤️

So excited that Parenthesis will screen at the Defy Film Festival in Nashville TN (for the 1st time in TN), tomorrow in the wonderful Studio 615.

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Section: Experimental Shorts 2
Day/Time: August 20, 4:45pm
Place: Studio 615 (Headphone Theater)

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𝙳𝚎𝚏𝚢 𝙵𝚒𝚕𝚖 𝙵𝚎𝚜𝚝𝚒𝚟𝚊𝚕 𝚒𝚜 𝚍𝚎𝚍𝚒𝚌𝚊𝚝𝚎𝚍 𝚝𝚘 𝚋𝚛𝚒𝚗𝚐𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚋𝚘𝚕𝚍 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚎𝚡𝚝𝚛𝚊𝚘𝚛𝚍𝚒𝚗𝚊𝚛𝚢 𝚌𝚒𝚗𝚎𝚖𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚌 𝚠𝚘𝚛𝚔 𝚏𝚛𝚘𝚖 𝚊𝚛𝚘𝚞𝚗𝚍 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚠𝚘𝚛𝚕𝚍 𝚝𝚘 𝙴𝚊𝚜𝚝 𝙽𝚊𝚜𝚑𝚟𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚎. 𝚆𝚎 𝚊𝚛𝚎 𝚊 𝚗𝚘𝚗𝚙𝚛𝚘𝚏𝚒𝚝 𝚘𝚛𝚐𝚊𝚗𝚒𝚣𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗 𝚏𝚘𝚛𝚖𝚎𝚍 𝚒𝚗 𝟸𝟶𝟷𝟼 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚐𝚘𝚊𝚕 𝚘𝚏 𝚋𝚛𝚒𝚗𝚐𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚋𝚘𝚕𝚍 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚎𝚡𝚝𝚛𝚊𝚘𝚛𝚍𝚒𝚗𝚊𝚛𝚢 𝚌𝚒𝚗𝚎𝚖𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚌 𝚠𝚘𝚛𝚔 𝚏𝚛𝚘𝚖 𝚊𝚛𝚘𝚞𝚗𝚍 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚠𝚘𝚛𝚕𝚍 𝚝𝚘 𝙴𝚊𝚜𝚝 𝙽𝚊𝚜𝚑𝚟𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚎. 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝚏𝚎𝚜𝚝𝚒𝚟𝚊𝚕 𝚌𝚎𝚕𝚎𝚋𝚛𝚊𝚝𝚎𝚜 𝚞𝚗𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚟𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚊𝚕 𝚏𝚒𝚕𝚖𝚜 𝚖𝚊𝚍𝚎 𝚋𝚢 𝚏𝚒𝚕𝚖𝚖𝚊𝚔𝚎𝚛𝚜 𝚠𝚑𝚘 𝚠𝚊𝚗𝚝 𝚝𝚘 𝚍𝚎𝚏𝚢 𝚝𝚛𝚊𝚍𝚒𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚜 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚎𝚡𝚙𝚎𝚌𝚝𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚜. 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝚏𝚎𝚜𝚝𝚒𝚟𝚊𝚕 𝚒𝚜 𝚍𝚛𝚒𝚟𝚎𝚗 𝚋𝚢 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚍𝚎𝚜𝚒𝚛𝚎 𝚝𝚘 𝚋𝚛𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚞𝚗𝚔𝚗𝚘𝚠𝚗 𝚝𝚊𝚕𝚎𝚗𝚝 𝚏𝚛𝚘𝚖 𝚊𝚛𝚘𝚞𝚗𝚍 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚠𝚘𝚛𝚕𝚍 𝚝𝚘 𝙽𝚊𝚜𝚑𝚟𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚎 𝚊𝚞𝚍𝚒𝚎𝚗𝚌𝚎𝚜 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚊𝚛𝚎 𝚕𝚘𝚘𝚔𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚊 𝚞𝚗𝚒𝚚𝚞𝚎 𝚌𝚒𝚗𝚎𝚖𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚌 𝚎𝚡𝚙𝚎𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚗𝚌𝚎. 𝙳𝚎𝚏𝚢 𝚙𝚞𝚝𝚜 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚠𝚘𝚛𝚔 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚒𝚜𝚝 𝚊𝚋𝚘𝚟𝚎 𝚊𝚕𝚕 𝚎𝚕𝚜𝚎.
𝗔𝗹𝗹 𝗴𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁 𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗮 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗿𝘂𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻.

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[june 24-28] Parenthesis @ non-syntax Experimental Image Festival 🇹🇼🇹🇼🇹🇼🇹🇼

Parenthesis is screening in Taipei, Taiwan starting from tomorrow (6/24) until June 28th at the Roof Light for the non-syntax Experimental Image Festival. The section is called “Obscure Meditation”.

The exhibition pieces in this section provide the viewer with a cyclical and meditative experience. The images are not unidirectional timelines from 00:00 to the end, and we should not forget that all images are light sources that are repeatedly projected, refracting and cycling in each viewing.

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Parenthesis by Vasilios Papaioannu

“non-syntax Experimental Image Festival” begins by focusing on the experimental nature of images in the contemporary, linking practices across countries, reorganizing existing media and genres, and bringing different images into dialogue with each other to consider the possibilities of the image. “non-syntax” indicates the conflict that occurred in writing. The connection of two vocabularies creates a vacuum of meaning that is present itself via erasing its gramma. Through the assemblage of works, the discussion of issues, and the mixing of genres and groups, the diversity of contemporary images are mapped out.

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[may 14] PARENTHESIS @ the 23rd Moviate Underground Film Festival!

Such a joy to screen Parenthesis at the 23rd edition of the Moviate Underground Film Festival. Screening tomorrow 11am Saturday May 14, at the legendary Midtown Cinema in Harrisburg PA.

Moviate Underground presents some excellent alternative shorts of varying types, which happen to not contain graphic imagery; a great opportunity to expose younger viewers to unconventional cinematic forms.

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PARENTHESIS @ PERIPHERIES Experimental Film & Video Festival ★LIVE ON VIMEO April 10-14★

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Parenthesis at Peripheries Experimental Film & Video Festival starting today, April 10 to 14 LIVE ON VIMEO together with amazing friends who are also brilliant artists.

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A huge thank you to Nicholas Swanton for curating the wonderful program.

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