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SUMMARY:“The Cars We Drove Into Capitalism” will be shown by mέta\, in a special screening at Mikrokosmos cinema | on Monday\, February 13th\, 2023 | 20:00.
DESCRIPTION:Constantly pursuing the dialogue between art and political endeavour\, mέta | the Centre for Postcapitalist Civilisation proceeds with a series of films regularly screened in the multi-space facility of Mikrokosmos\, literally bringing in the centre of our attention a genre connected per se to this pursuit: cinema. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFree entry | With Greek subtitles \n\n\n\nWith the kind contribution of Greek and foreign creators\, who\, quite often\, work in stifling conditions\, mέta proposes to a wider public significant\, recent film productions\, which visualise but also critically problematise various aspects of the multi-faceted crisis surrounding us\, as well as pinpoint emancipatory alternatives. For\, quite often\, optical language proves to be much more eloquent than numerous written pages\, in the depiction of societal reality – at times\, riveting. \n\n\n\nmέta presents for a special screening in Greece the film\, “The Cars We Drove Into Capitalism” by Boris Missirkov and Georgi Bogdanov. \n\n\n\nDuring the Cold War\, almost every family in the Eastern Bloc treasured and impeccably maintained the car they had waited so long for. This film looks at the fascinating history of socialist automobiles based on select accounts which portray the events and hardships of the time with a touch of humour. The automobile was also seen as a means to an end against the imperialist class enemy. For most communist countries\, the car was an instrument of propaganda\, used to symbolise technological progress and the equality\, if not the superiority of their system. Even Western families were known to drive a Lada\, Wartburg\, Moskvitch\, Trabant\, Skoda or Zaz.  \n\n\n\nWe meet a young woman who was inspired by pin-up models\, a couple who drove to freedom in West Germany but had to abandon their beloved car on the last leg of their journey\, a former racing champion and automobile fanatic who turned his old banger into a luxury vehicle\, and many more. A cinematic journey that focuses attention on its heroes – both man and machine. \n\n\n\nThe screening will be followed by a discussion with the director and the film’s contributors. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFeature Documentary / Human InterestFilm by Boris Missirkov and Georgi BogdanovLength 93’/52’ HDCo-Production AGITPROP\, Saxonia Entertainment\, Danish Documentary Production\, Hulahop and Endorfilm with MDR/ARTE\, in association with DR and YLE\, with the support of Creative Europe MEDIA\, Danish Film Institute\, Croatian Audiovisual Centre\, Czech Film Fund\, Bulgarian National Film CenterOriginal Title The Cars We Drove Into CapitalismYear 2021 \n\n\n\nCinema Mikrokosmos Address: Leof. Andrea Syggrou 106\, Athens 117 41
URL:https://metacpc.org/en/activities/the-cars-we-drove-into-capitalism/
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SUMMARY:From Crisis to War: One Year Later
DESCRIPTION:Admission is free | Simultaneous interpretation will be provided.Information: 210 8848270Serafio of the Municipality of Athens (19 Echelidon & 144 Pireos St.) \n\n\n\nWednesday 22 February 2023\, at 7 p.m. \n\n\n\nmέta | Centre for Post-Capitalist Civilisation is organizing a public event on Wednesday\, February 22\, 2023 (7 p.m.) at the Serafio of the Municipality of Athens (19 Echelidon & 144 Piraeus St.) on the topic “From Crisis to War: A Year Later” with speakers Yanis Varoufakis (Professor at the University of Athens\, Secretary of Mera25\, co-founder of DiEM25)\, Angela Dimitrakakis (Senior Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh)\, Amineh Kakabaveh (former member of the Swedish Parliament) and Stathis Kouvelakis (former Reader in political theory at King’s College London).Also\, Danae Stratou (visual artist\, president of mέta’s Board of Directors) will present material from the international online participatory project “Open the Black Boxes”. \n\n\n\nOne year after the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine\, the reality of war is becoming entrenched on the international stage. And it is a war that is not only taking place locally but in fact globally. A war whose origins go back a long way and whose conduct is based not only on military but also on political\, informational and\, above all\, economic means. \n\n\n\nIt is not difficult to discern in this war the ‘metastasis’ of the capitalist crisis\, in which we have been immersed for a decade and a half\, the attempt to ‘escape’ violently from this crisis and to change\, just as violently\, the powerbalance within and between states. \n\n\n\nThe cost is of course being paid primarily by the peoples who have been experiencing the military conflict but not only by them. The energy and inflation crisis\, the new ‘sacrifices’ required of the unprivileged classes the deterioration of democracy and public debate are the imprint of war on our own societies. War is in a way the reality we are already living in. And that is without even taking into account the real possibility of the opening of ‘side fronts’ or the nightmare of a generalised confrontation\, possibly nuclear\, which is threatened as never since 1962. \n\n\n\nWhile the conflict takes on a self-fuelled escalation dynamic\, while statesmen and the vast majority of journalists indulge in bellicose discourse\, with no obvious ‘exit strategy’\, the virtual non-existence (at least compared to what existed up to the beginning of the century)\, of an international pacifist movement\, the dominance of conformist discourse\, and the embarrassment\, if not the division\, of the Left of all versions. \n\n\n\nIt is urgent that the debate be brought back into its full context. There is an urgent need to distance ourselves from the role of NATO or the Kremlin applauder. There is an urgent need to revitalise the pacifist movement. There is an urgent need to bring the aspirations of the peoples back to the fore. There is an urgent need to create a new Non-Aligned Movement and a more just international order. It is urgent to end the perpetuation of the war in Ukraine. At a time when such issues of principle are at stake\, getting bogged down in petty politics does not suit us.
URL:https://metacpc.org/en/activities/from-crisis-to-war/
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