The Secret School (2009)
Video, black and white, sound, 11΄
Greece, the early 70’s. A family visits the museum of the 1821 Greek Revolution and War against the Turks. As they wander inside the museum, one of the paintings comes to life…
‘Sabotaged’ version of a rare -found- propaganda film,produced during the Greek military junta in the 70s, supporting a largely debated fact -for many a national myth- related to the birth of the modern Greek nation and the construction of its ethnic identity.
Exhibitions (selection)
– documenta 14, Neue Galerie, Kassel
– 1st Anren Biennial, Chengdu, China (Crossroads Exhibition curated by Carol Lu Yinghua and Liu Ding)
– National Museum of Contemporary Art (EMST), Theorimata II: On History , Athens
– State of Concept/ ASFA, aO.bC- An audiovisual diary, Athens
– Caixa Forum Mediateca, Barcelona
– Kunsthalle Athena/ Remap exhibition Athens
– Beursschouwburg, European Media Event/ VARIATION show, Brussels
– Vasiljev’s theatre, Second Moscow Dictionary of War, Moscow
Festival Screenings (selection)
– Toronto International Film Festival/ Wavelengths, Toronto
– Jeonju International Film Festival/ Stranger Than Cinema, Jeonju
– Viennale International Film Festival, Vienna
– Rencontres Internationales, Paris-Berlin-Madrid
– Onion City Film Festival – Chicago Filmmakers, Chicago
– Thessaloniki International Film Festival/ Experimental Forum, Thessaloniki
– VideoEx Festival, Zurich
– Underdox Film Festival, Munich
The film is part of the permanent collection of MOMus – Thessaloniki Museum of Contemporary Art
