Join us on the steps of Lycabettus in Kolonaki for an evening of Super 8 films, sounds, songs, spoken word and - possibly - rap, and a first public screening in Athens of an unknown contemporary Greek cinematic gem.

The first event of the Registered Time program is a double bill: a Super 8 live performance by Constantinos Hadzinikolaou followed by the first public screening of Vassilis Noulas’ debut feature film ‘The Lair’.

21.00: ‘MES/A.W.R.A.’ by Constantinos Hadzinikolaou 2023, 

Super 8 film & live performance

A 10min performance

like a song

I stole

from a ghost

Athens will rise again!

Constantinos Hadzinikolaou’s new work for the program of Registered Time is using forgotten material containing footage from his Super 8 archive. Images from a concert by The Fall in Athens (2006) will be accompanied by a live spoken word performance by the artist, setting up his equipment on a mini-tour on two different locations during Registered Time like a travelling Karagiozis player.

21.30: ‘The Lair’ by Vassilis Noulas, 2019

feature film, 76’

Athens. The last day of a female member of an illegal terrorist organization. Despina shoots, kills, wanders around the city, tries to find help, fails in every attempt, gets shot, dies in her apartment. The movie attempts a personal portrait of the city of Athens through the drifting of the main character. The Lair -a low budget production with DIY aesthetics and queer elements- is an existential road movie.

The Lair is based on the homonymous short story by Nikos Kasdaglis, produced by Nova Melancholia and co-produced by the Greek Film Centre and directed by Vassilis Noulas.

The Lair is a desperate odyssey with the cityscapes of different neighbourhoods of Athens playing a major role as a familiar yet alien background for the story’s hopelessness. Shot in 2019, it represents a snapshot of particular places in the city which have already changed since then. As Despina, Despina Chadzipavlidou in an unforgettable lead role.

The Lair premiered at the Thessaloniki Festival 2019, just before Covid-19 closed down cinemas for more than a year. The screening as part of Registered Time will be the first time that an Athenian audience has a chance to see this captivating movie.

The program Registered Time is curated by Maria Lalou & Skafte Aymo-Boot, and organised by cross section archive non-profit space for art and architecture as part of its annual research and exhibition topic of 2022-23, Real Time History. With the city of Athens as the starting point, Real Time History aims to put into focus the continual but unnoticeable transformation of the physical environment of the city taking place while we are inhabiting it, and at the same time formulating a praxis of recording it.

Event 1: Monday 26th June 2023, 20:30, 35 Marasli Street - steps between Dinokratous & Kleomenous Streets

21:00: Super 8 film & performance Constantinos Hadzinikolaou,

21:30: The Lair (2019), 76’ feature film by Vassilis Noulas.