Short Films

SHORT FILMS 16.01. 20h @ 4lthangrund Cafe

Meet Me in the Square of Freedom is a project that looks at a feminist club of rollerskaters in the artist’s hometown of Bratislava. The club creates a safe space and highlights community strength and openness in times of drastic political changes within the country. Together, they participate in anti-fascist roller-skating rides through Bratislava, organise club nights on roller skates, and perform. They often utilise public spaces in the city to teach people roller-skating, which deepens the connection between them and the urban space of Bratislava.

Transient Ties is a project that combines video, photography, and archival materials, focusing on the forced migration of the artist’s family member from Greece to former Czechoslovakia. This uprootedness occurred, due to the Greek Civil War (1946-1949) and repatriation back to Greece never took place. It explores the process of identity shaping in a new environment and the bonds between home, displacement, and cultural heritage.

Where My Grandfather Used to Sit: My grandfather lived in the same place his whole life. I remember that we used to sit on his couch. My cousins, my dad, my aunts and uncle and me. Some years ago my grandfather started to tell stories somethimes more novelistic than real. But I always got caught in them. But now there is no one left to tell the stories. What remains when a person we have loved so much is no longer there? How does the place where this person lived for many and many years change? Often, what remains is an empty house in which silence reigns and in which, even if you concentrate, you can no longer hear any noise except for sounds from outside.