In association with the
Tate Modern
and
The Kent Institute of Art & Design (MA Artists' Film, Video & Photography).
The Hellenic Foundation for Culture presents
Friday 12 November, 19.00
Hostage
A film by
Constantine Giannaris
Greece 2004, 90’
Greek filmmaker Constantine Giannaris is admired internationally for his lyrical explorations of desire and diaspora set against the backdrop of the modern city. Drawing on documentary modes of filmmaking, he frequently uses non-professional actors to map out the volatile space between cultural difference and sexual transgression. This pair of screenings marks the London premiere of Giannaris' new film Hostage.
Hostage is loosely based on a 1999 bus hijacking in northern Greece by the young Albanian Flamour Pisli. Giannaris weaves fictional elements into the real story. The event marked a critical shift in Greek perceptions about immigration, at a time when the war in Kosovo helped galvanise the irrational, xenophobic fears in Greek society about the new army of reserve labour coming from former ‘socialist’ countries.
Picking up on themes in Tate Modern's Time Zones exhibition, the screening also marks the London premiere of Hostage. After the screening, Constantine Giannaris will be joined in conversation with Mark Nash, independent curator and Reader in Fine Art at Central St Martins.
Tate Modern
Starr Auditorium
Tickets: £3.50, conc. £2.00
Book online or call 020 7887 8888
Sunday 14 November, 15.00
North of Vortex
A film by
Constantine Giannaris
UK 1991, 58'
Shot in striking monochrome, Giannaris distills the vocabulary of the American road movie into a sensual mood piece about a bisexual poet, two hitchhikers, and the American landscape.
Tate Modern
Starr Auditorium
Tickets: £3.50, conc. £2.00
Book online or call 020 7887 8888
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