Guests

🎙️Dimitris Athiridis is a documentary filmmaker and photographer from Thessaloniki, Greece. His films include the Self Admiration Society (2009), One Step Ahead (2012) and exergue – on documenta 14 (2024). The 14-hour filmfollows artistic director Adam Szymczyk and his curatorial team over two years as they prepare documenta 14. The film invites audiences into a behind-the-scenes observation of the institutional art world and the function of contemporary art in a shifting global landscape.

🎙️Marina Gioti is a visual artist and filmmaker born and based in Αthens, Greece. 
In her works, which comprise films, installations and media art pieces, she often revisits historical eras and stories offering parallel readings to dominant narratives.
In 2017 she was a participating artist at Documenta 14 in Athens and Kassel. She is the laureate of the 2022 Prix COAL for art and ecology and she is currently a fellow of the IN SITU programme at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris.

🎙️Antoine Thirion is a critic and a programmer at Cinéma du Réel, and at the Berlinale.
He was a critic at Cahiers du cinéma (2001-2009) and then at Independencia, a magazine he co-founded in 2009 with Eugenio Renzi. At the Jeu de Paume / Festival d'Automne, he organised the James Benning (2009) and Lav Diaz (2015) retrospectives. At FID Marseille he is in charge of the Hong Sang-soo (2016), Roger Corman (2017) and Isabelle Huppert (2018) retrospectives.