2013, Athens is undergoing the financial crisis. The camera documents morbid images of dereliction, desolation, and decay in the city centre and the suburbs. The Open Αir Cinemas of Athens resist; they thrive as landmarks and touristic attractions; they recover their initial travelling form and action by filling back yards, parks, central squares, and becoming the connecting tissue of a terrified society in crisis. Do the Open Air Cinemas of Athens, a cherished form of communal entertainment, keep on creating an oasis, an escape, amidst the bleak, inhuman everyday life or do they suffer heavy blows from the recession? |
