Young Aphrodites

  • June 12, 2022 / 16:00

Director: Nikos Koundouros
Cast: Cleopatra Rota, Vangelis Ioannidis, Eleni Prokopiou, Takis Emmanouil
Greece, 1963, DCP, 135’, b&w
Greek with Turkish and English subtitles   

Greece in the year 2000 BC. Β group of shepherds come down from the mountain in search of fresh pastures. They lose their way and come across some fishermen’s wives whose husbands are at sea. Brief love is born between young Skymnos, a shepherd’s son and Chloe. The wild games of the two adolescents awaken the desire of Lyka, a mute shepherd who abducts Chloe. Unable to live with the bitterness of betrayal, Skymnos allows himself to be swept away by the waves.

Reconstruction

Reconstruction

Z

Z

The Roundup

The Roundup

John the Violent

John the Violent

The Crossing

The Crossing

Deserter

Deserter

A Quiet Death

A Quiet Death

Olga Robards

Olga Robards

Mania

Mania

Evdokia

Evdokia

The Photograph

The Photograph

The Excursion

The Excursion

The Idlers of the Fertile Vallye

The Idlers of the Fertile Vallye

Morning Patrol

Morning Patrol

Stone Years

Stone Years

Young Aphrodites

Young Aphrodites

Trojan Women

Trojan Women

Baby King

Baby King

1638, the year Louis XIV was born –his second name, Dieudonné, alluding to his God-given status– saw the diffusion of a cult of maternity encouraged by the very devout Anne of Austria, in thanks for the miracle by which she had given birth to an heir to the French throne. Simon François de Tours (1606-1671) painted the Queen in the guise of the Virgin Mary, and the young Louis XIV as the infant Jesus, in the allegorical portrait now in the Bishop’s Palace at Sens.

The Vanity of Small Differences

The Vanity of Small Differences

The Vanity of Small Differences is a series of six large scale tapestries, completed in 2012, which explore British fascination with taste and class, and can be seen in the Grayson Perry: Small Differences exhibition. 

Serpent Head

Serpent Head

The Greek god Apollo and his son Asklepios presided over the realm of medicine and healing. Apollo was also the god of light and sun, whose solar symbolism and association with medicine would become linked to Christ the Physician, and the resurrected.