Iro Siafliaki

Iro Siafliaki

Thessaloniki, Greece

Iro Siafliaki was born in Thessaloniki. She studied Cinema at E. Hadzikou Film School (Athens) and Philosophy at Sorbonne University (Paris) and holds a PhD on Art, Philosophy and Aesthetics Studies.

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Genevieve Clancy, Instants Of Life 2013 (5)

The French poet and philosopher Geneviève Clancy (1937-2005) does not distinguish her writings (radical in terms of both sense and style) from political action against all forms of oppression and exclusion. Using archival material and the accounts of those who shared with her the necessity to respond, through their creations and activities, to contemporary history's challenges, the film tries to reflect the movement of a thought that dissolves the distance between prose and poetry, between personal and collective life. It depicts a network of people united in their refusal to accept the compromises required in our times, who reveal with their work the possibility of another reality
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Nico Papatakis - Portrait d'un franc-tireur 2009

A “Cinéma, de notre temps” series episode dedicated to greek filmmaker Nico Papatakis, originally aired sometime around 2009.
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Zones and Passages 2019

Images of labor and unemployment in present-day Greece. Athens, Perama, Thessaloniki, Skouries… "Block after block, the liquidation of the world goes on" (René Char). Instances of rupture with what used to define the world of work until now, as well as the momentum created by those who fight.