Red City: Greek Poetry as Cinema Manos Cízek, Lindsey Aliksanyan December 14th, 2015 7:00 PM The Brooklyn Commons 388 Atlantic Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11217 More info: http://thecommonsbrooklyn.org/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=13016 Red City<http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2367764/> is a film that metabolizes the current economic crisis in Greece and the crisis in morals and values that seems to accompany it. A semi-experimental adaptation of the poetry of Dinos Christianopoulos and Maria Tataraki, Red City offers a vision of a dystopian and futuristic Athens, where the atmosphere is troubled due to a malfunction in the android community, which has lead several androids to revolt against their owners and the police. The whole film is a poetic vision of a country in disarray, trying to find what there's left of the humanity that binds us. The directors occasionally cut to footage of Greek police during recent riots, underlining how this not-too-distant future is really an allegory for what is happening in the country now. After the screening, there will be a live discussion with the director Manos Cízek about the film, the use of protest art today and how we can return poetry to politics. Lindsey Aliksanyan<http://cargocollective.com/LKA> is a film director and producer of Armenian origin. Born in New York City, he has lived in Los Angeles, London, Athens and Armenia, working across a spectrum of independent documentaries, narrative films and commercial videos. Highlighting social and humanitarian issues he has produced & directed works such as the acclaimed political feature film Red City (2012), The Penal Colony (2015) & The Birdcage (2015). He is currently a visiting lecturer on film and practice at the Global Center for Advanced Studies. Manos Cízek<http://www.imdb.com/name/nm5241062/> is an actor, film director and activist, known for The Penal Colony (2015), The Winter (2013) and Red City (2012). He is an instructor of cinema at The Global Center for Advanced Studies (GCAS<https://globalcenterforadvancedstudies.org/>) and a member of the Open Solidarity Initiative for the Struggle of the Workers of the Vio.Me.<http://www.viome.org/> self-managed factory in Thessaloniki. He was also involved in the multimedia team of the Real Democracy movement during the occupation of Syntagma square in Athens. Currently, he is co-directing with Lindsey Aliksanyan the GCAS sponsored documentary The Birdcage and he performs at the Off-Off-Broadway movement drama The Bull of Heaven, directed by Jeff Dailey.