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Angelopoulos Retrospective: Eternity and a Day

Billy Wilder Theater, Hammer Museum 10899 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA

Eternity and a Day (Mia Aioniotita kai mia Mera). France/Italy/Greece/Germany 1998 Bruno Ganz plays a famed Greek author with a growing list of uncompleted projects after becoming despondent following the death of his wife and his own recent terminal diagnosis. Lost in reveries of a brighter past, he’s snapped back to life when, on impulse,...

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Angelopoulos Retrospective: Days of ’36

Billy Wilder Theater, Hammer Museum 10899 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA

Days of ’36 (Meres tou ’36) Greece, 1972 A political assassination kicks off Theo Angelopoulos’ portrait of one Greek dictatorship made under the shadow of another. This opening act of violence triggers a series of more ambiguous but equally ominous machinations—a prison escape, a hostage crisis, foreign powers conspiring over cocktails—with Angelopoulos emphasizing the atmosphere...

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Film Screening: Last Voyage

Cinemark Downey 8840 Apollo Way, Downey, CA

A documentary based on the writings of Nikos Kazantzakis’ travels in the Far East. The film’s director Aris Chatzistefanou will join us for Q & A following the screening. Co-sponsored by the Hellenic Library, the Friends of Nikos Kazantzakis in Los Angeles, Southern California Cretans Association, Cretans Omonoia of Orange County

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Angelopoulos Retrospective: Voyage to Cythera

Billy Wilder Theater, Hammer Museum 10899 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA

Voyage to Cythera (Taxidi sta Kithira) Greece, 1984 After years living in exile in the Soviet Union, a communist resistance fighter, Spyros (Manos Katrakis), returns home to the dismay of his family and neighbors. His son Alexandros (Giulio Brogi) is a filmmaker casting a movie set during the German occupation while the villagers of his...

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Angelopoulos Retrospective: The Suspended Step of the Stork & The Beekeeper

Billy Wilder Theater, Hammer Museum 10899 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA

The Suspended Step of the Stork (To Meteoro Vima tou Pelargou) Greece, 1991 The plight of refugees in the Balkans and internationally dominated much of Theo Angelopoulos’ attention in the 1990s, leading to two of his most acclaimed films, Ulysses’ Gaze (1995) and Eternity and a Day (1998). The Suspended Step of the Stork, which...

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Angelopoulos Retrospective: Alexander the Great

Billy Wilder Theater, Hammer Museum 10899 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA

Alexander the Great (O Megalexandros) Greece, 1980 Theo Angelopoulos insisted that Alexander the Great was his “most simple film” to date for its linear structure, beginning on New Year’s Eve 1900 and proceeding from there. The film’s straightforward chronology, however, belies the complex interplay of Greek Orthodox and Byzantine liturgy, music, and ritual that Angelopoulos...

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Angelopoulos Retrospective: The Hunters

Billy Wilder Theater, Hammer Museum 10899 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA

The Hunters (I Kynighi) Greece, 1977 When a hunting party finds the body of a communist partisan perfectly preserved in the snow, they carry it back to their lakeside lodge to open a formal inquest. Representatives of the  conservative elite—politicians, military officers, businessmen, media figures—who have gathered to celebrate New Year’s Eve 1977, they are...

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Angelopoulos Retrospective: The Weeping Meadow

Billy Wilder Theater, Hammer Museum 10899 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA

The Weeping Meadow (To Livadi pou Dakryzei) Greece, 2004 A family history told in wide shot, The Weeping Meadow spans the turbulent decades between 1919 and the end of the Greek Civil War in 1949 as they buffet the lives of Eleni (Alexandra Aidini) and her adoptive brother and lover Alexis (Nikos Poursanidis). Taken in...

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Evita Arapoglou, “Asia Minor Hellenism: Heyday – Catastrophe – Displacement – Rebirth”

by Zoom

In this lecture, part of the Hellenic Together 4.0 series held in collaboration with the Benaki Museum in Athens, exhibition curator Evita Arapoglou leads us through “Asia Minor Hellenism: Heyday – Catastrophe – Displacement – Rebirth.” RSVP here. This program is supported by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF). About the Exhibit Visitors to the exhibition...

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My Rembetika Blues

Royce Hall, 314 UCLA

Film screening and discussion with filmmaker Mary Zournazi. My Rembetika Blues is a film about the power of music and what makes us human. Rembetika music or the Greek blues is a music of the streets and a music of refugees. The film explores the heart and soul of Rembetika music through peoples’ stories of...

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Angelopoulos Retrospective: Ulysses’ Gaze

Billy Wilder Theater, Hammer Museum 10899 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA

Ulysses’ Gaze (To Vlemma tou Odissea) Greece, 1995 Theo Angelopoulos once confessed to an interviewer, “I would like to believe the world will be saved by the cinema.” Ulysses’ Gaze gives this hope form as a Greek filmmaker known as A (Harvey Keitel) becomes obsessed with finding lost reels of film shot by the Manaki...

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Angelopoulos Retrospective: The Travelling Players

Billy Wilder Theater, Hammer Museum 10899 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA

The Travelling Players (O Thiassos) Greece, 1975 A powerful vision of postwar Greek history as experienced by a troupe of actors on perennial tour, The Travelling Players swept the awards at the 1975 Thessaloniki Film Festival and announced Theo Angelopoulos as a major international auteur. A multi-generational ensemble, the players drag themselves and their trunks...

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Polymnia

Little Theater 1167 MacGowan Hall, Los Angeles, CA

Polymnia world premiere presented by the UCLA Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture Saturday, January 21, 2023 7:00 p.m. UCLA Little Theater Reception to follow Sunday, January 22, 2023 (2nd performance just added!) 2:00 p.m. UCLA Little Theater Running time: 85 minutes, no intermission Click here to view the digital program....

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Guest Speaker: “Reparations of the Republic: Champollion and French Universalism” Markus Messling (Romance Literature and Cultural Studies, Universität des Saarlandes)

Zoom

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER About the lecture: Jean-François Champollion is a hero of French republicanism, even though he is known today mainly for deciphering the hieroglyphs. Tellingly, his statue stands in front of France’s most important educational institution, the Collège de France, sculpted by none other than Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi of the Statue of Liberty in New...

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Guest Speaker: “Black Sovereignty” Miguel Valerio (Spanish/Performing Arts, Washington University in Saint Louis)

Kaplan Hall 348

Register for the February 6th, 2023 in-person ECT seminar session on Prof. Valerio’s book, Sovereign Joy: Afro-Mexican Kings and Queens, 1539-1640 (Cambridge UP, 2022). Space is limited for in-person participation in the seminar. RSVP (first come, first served) to zs@humnet.ucla.edu About the Author: Miguel A. Valerio is assistant professor of Spanish at Washington University in...

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Themistoklis Aravossitas, “Greek Language Education in North America: New Directions and Challenges” on International Greek Language Day”

by Zoom

The lecture is offered on the occasion of International Greek Language Day. Her Excellency, Alexandra Papadopoulou, Ambassador of Greece to the United States, will offer opening remarks. February 11, 2023, 10:00 AM PST/1:00PM EST/8:00 PM Athens The event takes place on Zoom. RSVP: https://bit.ly/3kz0pMR Modern Greek is taught and learned across North America mainly as...

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Guest Speaker: “Literary Geopolitics (About Diaspora, Black France and Wonder)” Yala Kisukidi (Philosophy, Université Paris 8 Vincennes Saint Denis)

Zoom

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER Abstract: In this lecture, Nadia Yala Kisukidi conceives of literature through a spatial understanding of “diaspora” at the crossroads between France and central Africa. Landscapes and borders come together in private lives and create new spaces for the imagination, where a specific understanding of “diaspora” opens a reflection on the literary...

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Polymnia, a conversation

Polymnia, a conversation February 25, 2023 10:00 – 11:00 a.m. via Zoom To RSVP, visit https://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIrcOiqrzIoGd1cPmL-9eZcPtHDIShg-gpG As a follow up to the world premiere of POLYMNIA, a chamber opera by Theodosia Roussos, join us for a Zoom conversation with the composer and several of the artists who created this wonderful production. They’ll share stories and...

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Guest Speaker: “Political Fictions” Patrick Boucheron (History, Collège de France)

Kaplan Hall 348

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER Patrick Boucheron has been Professor at the Collège de France since 2015 (chair in History of Powers in Western Europe from the 13th to the 16th century). He specializes in the European Middle Ages, particularly in Italy. His work also concerns the writing of history and changes in the discipline. It...

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