STARRY SKY – STARRY NIGHTS
After-midnight Screenings of the Ephemeral of the Scenic Action

The Athens Epidaurus Festival’s new suggestion, hosted in Peiraios 260’s Hall D, is introduced with the title ‘Starry Sky – Starry nights’. At midnight, in an industrial landscape, in the silence of summer Athens, under an open roof, movies are screened. Where ephemeral performances take place, film documentations are screened, meeting the spectator in a city that slows down.

Works filmed in non-conventional ways, not as simple documentations but as independent transpositions of the stage experience that retain the tension, the rhythm, and the dramaturgical quality. Contemporary creators compose a polyphonic field, where theatre, dance, and performance speak with cinema. Thus, the year-long dialogue of the Festival with contemporary performance and landmark works of the 20th and 21st centuries is introduced.

At the same time, Peiraios 260 itself, a landmark that celebrates twenty years of continuous presence, functions as an active entity of this experience: a space that remains vivid through the multiple forms of art it hosts, redefining constantly the relationship between the past of the show and the present of its viewing.