Presentation of Video Art works
4, 11, 18, 25 July 2012

The Railway Carriage Theater to Treno sto Rouf "wore its summer clothes" and continues to pleasantly surprise us by inaugurating a creative collaboration with the National Museum of Contemporary Art with the presentation of five works of video art by Sophie Calle and Gregory Shephard, YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES, George Drivas and Shelly Silver. The works with different approaches narrate journeys, wanderings, encounters and personal confidences on the boundary between imaginary and real, private and political.

Curated by Stamatis Schizakis.

The screenings will take place on the platform of Rouf railway station throughout July, every Wednesday at 22:00 in the evening with free entrance.

Screening schedule
Wednesday 4/7
Sophie Calle and Gregory Shephard, Double- blind, 1992
Videotape, color, with sound
Duration 75' 58''
English and French, with Greek subtitles

In Double-Blind, Sophie Kahl and Gregory Shepard travel from New York to Las Vegas to get married. Each one records the journey with their own video camera, approaching in a different way the evolution of their relationship. In this video, the journey becomes an opportunity to explore erotic desire through the humorous juxtaposition of videotaped diary confessions.

Wednesday 11/7
George Drivas, Case study, 2007
Black and white, with sound
Duration 17'38''
With English and Greek subtitles

George Drivas, Empirical Data, 2011
Black and white, with sound
Runtime: 34'
With English and Greek subtitles

George Drivas in Case Study and Empirical Data combines written text with black and white digital photographs in narratives that address issues of alienation and social adaptation within the urban fabric.

Wednesday 18/7
YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES
The art of sleep, 2006
Flash animation, with and without network connection, with original soundtrack
Duration:18' 45''
Greek with English subtitles

The art of sleep by Koreans YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES is a text-only flash animation with music. The text, which follows the rhythm of the music, is the caustic monologue of a sleepless narrator who is anxious about the importance and role of art today.

Wednesday 25/7
Shelly Silver, Suicide, 2003
Videotape, color, with sound
Duration 70'
English, with Greek subtitles

Shelly Silver's Suicide is a feature video that takes the form of an amateur diary of Amanda's journey and thoughts. played by the artist herself. By writing the script alongside filming and editing, the artist allows the filmed events to influence the flow of the story as it unfolds. In this way, the boundaries between autobiography and fiction are lost, in a melancholic tale of alienation and wandering.