Dionysos Andronis
Birth: 1967 (Athens, Greece)
Official Website: Les Roches Noires
Major Works: By Any Old Light (2008)
Pandrogeny Manifesto (2005)
Apprenticeship (1995)
Antinoos (1991)
Notes: 1. “Bulmer BTI stopped watching television in 1986. It was too ugly. I stopped watching films in 1999. They were too fast. I live in a little cottage in the country. I listen to Beethoven’s piano sonatas. My favorite is nr. 21 in C major. I love the way Ashkenazy plays it, very dry, just the notes, no false sentimentality. I have a video recorder and a color monitor just in case I have to watch something for business purposes. Then I received a tape in the mail. I hadn’t watched a film for years. It was called “Antinnos” by Dionysos Andronis. About five minutes long. A classical piece. A piece of great beauty. A naked man as a statue and just the gradual unobtrusive camera movement in towards the man but without getting unpleasantly close. Simple lightning, a great frame. A celebration of the male body, clearly erotic but spiritual too. A piece of visual imagery that refreshed me, surprised me, woke me up to the immense potential of simplicity in this overcrowded digital era. What a lovely film. It reminded me a little of Werner Schroeter’s great opera movies of the seventies, a little of Kenneth Anger’s late fifties work, a little of the best of a lot of underground films. In short, this short is a classic”. Aryan Kaganof 22-12-2002
(The above article is translated in French here. )
2. “16mm film utilized as a bridge between painting and sculpture. Time as a measure of motion is visualized in an achingly slow, inexorable zoom shot. An almost perfect, textbook example of a classic “underground” film in the Kenneth Anger tradition. Made just before so-called “digital cinema” began to take off, Antinoos is a perfect closing shot for the analogue practice of oppositional cinema”
(written by Aryan Kaganof for a screening at the Witwatersrand University (in Johannesbourg) that happened 4-3-5).
Other Resources: IMDB: Profile
Official site: Kagablog
Video: None
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“By any old light” is selected for the next (the 15th) edition of our Festival. Here is the link : http://www.nationalmediamuseum.org.uk/biff/09/AZ.asp
Our previous film “Pandrogeny Manifesto” is selected for the next BIFF 2010 :
http://www.nationalmediamuseum.org.uk/Biff/10/Film_Detail.asp?filmid=8859
And here are some of the festivals that screened already our previous film “Pandrogeny Manifesto” :
01. Festival International de Rotterdam 2006 (1re mondiale)
02. Nuit Blanche parisienne 2006
03. à la chaîne PINK TV, France (en 2006)
04. LUFF 2006 (Lausanne Underground FF)
05. Cinémathèque Française (en 2007)
06. Porn Film Festival de Berlin (en 2007)
07. MUFF (Montreal Underground FF) 2007
08. MIX de NY en 2007 (HOMOCCULT)
09. Yerba Buena Center, SF (USA) en mai 2008
10. il a été commercialisé en DVD par la société canadienne et importante “Cinéma Abattoir” en 2008
11. Outfest, LA (USA) en juillet 2008
12. festival “Revelation” de Perth (Australie) en 2008
13. NAF (National Arts Festival) de Grahamstown, Afrique du Sud en 2008
14. Horse Hospital à Londres (en 2009)
15. à la belle galerie “illuseum” d’Amsterdam en 2009
16. London, UK – Visions of Excess – Spill Festival (2009)
17.Naples, Italy – MADRe Museum – Napoli Teatro Festival (2009)
18. Mexico City, Mexico – MIX Mexico (2009)
etc , etc , etc ,
“Pandrogeny Manifesto” will be also projected at the Centre Pompidou in Paris next September 25th, 2011, at 17h. It will be a birthday for the 40 years of the “Collectif Jeune Cinema” :
http://www.cjcinema.org/pages/hors_les_murs.php
Last year it was screened at the canadian “Antimatter Film Festival”.