Rain by Vasilios Papaioannu

RAIN at the 35th Onion City Experimental Film Festival 💫

Amazing news! Rain will screen at the incredible 35th edition of the Onion City Experimental Film Festival in Chicago at the Chicago Filmmakers Firehouse Cinema, on April 5th in the 'Tailwind' section, alongside wonderful films and filmmakers.

TAILWIND | April 5, 2025 - 2:00PM

Pack the trunk and we are hitting the road, baby! This program is a collection of roadtrip memories, travelogues, family movies, and film diaries. There’s a revisit of a historic journey, a daydream in a parking lot, and—remember the solar eclipse last year that passed through the Midwest right after Onion City, on April 8? Filmmakers were not going to miss that good opportunity to make films. They are the star chasers, and their cameras, as we shall say with Jonas Mekas, “The camera is always running!”

From cinefile.com:

Vasilios Papaioannu's
RAIN (2024, 6 min) is a waterlogged psychotravelogue that seems to tunnel directly out of a couple's conversation and into the streets where the camera simply roams unbounded, seemingly across a few countries, through city streets and onto country roads, into ornate homes, and so on. It's as though once the rain begins to strike the camera lens in the opening moments, the associative floodgates are thrown wide open and the film is carried adrift in quicksilver rivulets of memory

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[january 24] RAIN in the UK 🇬🇧

Rain at the amazing Cornwall Film Festival this upcoming Friday, January 24. The program is called:

Intersection

This pop-up is a dynamic investigation into the intersection of art, ideas, and human experience, using the power of lens-based media to challenge, inspire, and engage. It seeks to create a platform for innovative collaborations, fostering dialogue between artists, thinkers, and audiences to uncover new ways of seeing and understanding the world around us. At its core, this initiative celebrates the transformative potential of lens-based media to transcend disciplines, spark curiosity, and forge meaningful connections between art, ideas, and experience.

More info here:
https://www.mormediacharity.org/intersection2025

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[october 12] RAIN in Paris!!!!!!!🇫🇷

So excited! This upcoming weekend, October 12 Rain is screening at the Cité internationale universitaire de Paris (CiuP) for the 22nd Festival International Signes de Nuit in Paris, France. Rain will screen at the Program 1 of the International Cinema in Transgression. More info below:

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[october 10-november 24] RAIN in Athens!!!!!!!🇬🇷

So happy that Rain will be in Athens, Greece in an amazing exhibition organized by Pugnant Film Series from October 10 to November 24. Check the info below:

[greek text]
 Το Pugnant Film Series πάει στο Κτίριο Νόμπελ στο Χαλάνδρι, για να συμμετέχει στην έκθεση "συλλογικό γουργουρητό" σε επιμέλεια της Νάντιας Αργυροπούλου

Επιμεληθήκαμε το δωμάτιο μας, ώστε να είναι σαν το σπίτι μας. Καθώς το ντύσαμε με στοιχία και παταφυσικές από τους χώρους που επισκεπτόμαστε. Σε αυτό το installation μπορείτε να δείτε flyers αρχείου, από σχεδόν όλες (70 και πλέον προβολές) του Pugnant Film Series. Δεν συμπεριλάβαμε μόνο τα flyers που δημιουργήθηκαν στις θεματικές προβολές του Cinema Suicide. Μπορείτε να δείτε μέσα σε τσίγγινη λεκάνη φωτογραφίες από τις εγκαταστάσεις μας σε εγκαταλελειμμένους -και όχι μόνο χώρους. Οι φωτογραφίες που παρουσιάζονται ανήκουν στην πνευματική ιδιοκτησία των επισκεπτών του Pugnant Film Series. 

Κι ακόμα, και κυρίως, και περισσότερο μπορείτε να δείτε τις ταινίες Our Summer Made Her Light Escape της Sasha Waters Freyer, το σπάνιο Bluebird του Παναγιώτη Παπαφράγκου, το  Mole του Sasha Svirsky, το the shade tale της Ειρήνης Ταμπασούλη, το Rain του Βασίλη Παπαϊωάννου, το Granny’s Revenge του Λάμπρου Κορδολαίμη και το Fantastic Plastic της Jeanne Stern. Πρόκειται για ταινίες που παίζουν με τα δομικά ερωτικά στοιχεία του κινηματογράφου. Φως - Σκιά, Χρώμα - Αποχρωματισμός, Αργοί ρυθμοί - Ξέφρενοι ρυθμοί, Χαρά - Λήθη είναι λίγα απ' τα δίπολα που προσφέρουν μια γκάμα συγκινήσεων απ' την ψυχεδέλεια, την γιορτινή ανησυχία μέχρη την γαλήνη ή την μελαγχολία.

Τα εγκαίνια της έκθεσης είναι στις 10/10 στις 19.30, και θα διασκέσει μέχρι τις 24 Νοεμβρίου.

Είσοδος Ελεύθερη
Κτίριο Νόμπελ
Ήβης 30, Χαλάνδρι
10/10 - 24/11
Τετ.-Παρ. (18.00-21.30) - Σαβ.-Κυρ.(12.00-18.00)

[english text]
Pugnant Film Series is coming to the Nobel Building in Chalandri to participate in the exhibition "collective purr" curated by Nadja Argyropoulou.

We have curated our room to feel like home. We dressed it with elements and pataphysical artifacts from the places we normally visit. In this installation, you can see archive flyers from almost all (70-plus screenings) of the Pugnant Film Series. We did not include only the flyers created for the thematic screenings of Cinema Suicide. You can also see photos of our installations in abandoned - and not only - spaces presented in a tin basin. The photos exhibited belong to the intellectual property of visitors of the Pugnant Film Series screenings.

Moreover, and primarily, you can see the films Our Summer Made Her Light Escape by Sasha Waters Freyer, the rare Bluebird by Panagiotis Papafragkos, Mole by Sasha Svirsky, The Shade Tale by Eirini Tampasouli, Rain by Vasilios Papaioannou, Granny’s Revenge by Lampros Kordolaimis, and Fantastic Plastic by Jeanne Stern. These are films that play with the fundamental erotic elements of cinema. Light - Shadow, Color - Desaturation, Slow rhythms - Frenetic rhythms, Joy - Forgetfulness are just a few of the dichotomies that offer a range of emotions from psychedelia, festive anxiety to serenity or melancholy.

The opening of the exhibition is on 10/10 at 19:30 and will be open until November 24.

Free Admission
Nobel Building
Ivis 30, Chalandri
10/10 - 24/11 ΅
Wed.-Fri. (18.00-21.30) & Sat.-Sun.(12.00-18.00)

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