Photography vs cinema at HAU
The similarities and differences between the visual approaches to photography and cinema are the subject of a series of seminars being hosted at the Hellenic American Union from October 4 and every Thursday for five consecutive weeks. The seminars, which will be conducted by Platon Rivellis, each last two hours and delve into photography and cinema in the 1920s through the work of such acclaimed filmmakers as D.W. Griffith, Buster Keaton, Fritz Lang, F.W. Murnau, Walter Ruttman, Dziga Vertov and Victor Sjostrom, juxtaposed with that of photographers Jacques-Henri Lartigue, Alexander Rodchenko, Edward Weston, Stanislaw Witkiewicz, Josef Sudek, August Sander and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy. Rivellis will focus on drawing parallels and highlighting differences between the «infancy» of cinema and the «adolescence» of photography by comparing soundless photography to then-soundless films to reveal the common roots shared by the two arts and the different objectives they ultimately serve. At the Hellenic American Union, seminars will begin at 8.30 p.m. on October 4, 11, 18, 25 and November 1, and cost 15 euros for the entire series or 5 euros per individual seminar. Registration has already begun. Hellenic American Union, 22 Massalias, tel 210.368.0052.
