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Writer, Director: Angelos Frantzis. Camera: Markos Livadaros. Costumes: Katia Goulioni. Sound: Nikos Triantafyllou. Editing: Nikos Vavouris. Assistant Director: Evdokia Kalamitsi. Props: Demetra Marlanti. Musical Hair Styling: Ioulia Sigrimi. Actors: Michelle Valley, Katia Goulioni, Thanassis Petropoulos, Maria Egglezaki, Larissa Vergou, Katerina Micheli, Lenica Arfani, Panagiotis Evangelidis, Alexandros Voulgaris - The Boy, Konstantinos Souvatzoglou - Space Blankets, Yannis Rigadis, Zoe Corre, Tassos Spyrou, Costas Kizas, Thanos Papadopoulos, Dimitris Cotselis, Peny Liakopoulou, Maria Kontou, Phoebus Callitsis, Yannis Corres, Demetra Marlanti, Nikos Kalamitsis, Dimitris Vlahopoulos, Theodora Samioti, Vana Ivanova, Marcos Livadaros, Nikos Triantafyllou, Angelos Frantzis, Vanessa Ferle, Christos Ferles. Stamatis Schizakis, Christina Katsiadaki, Anna Karidi, Costas Koutelidakis, Dimitris Marlagoutsos, Thodoris Prodromidis, Dimitris Apostolakidis, Nikos Vavouris, Dimitris Korizis, Alexis Frantzis, Nikos Kotsaris, Amaryllis Hana, Rania Oikonomou, Margarita Manta, Nena Karagianni, Georgia Thessalonikeos, Zeni Thessalonikeos, Elissavet Tsoumpri, Frantzeska Nimee, Cornelia Frantzi, Alexandros Tzanis, Petros Nikotsos, Anna Kenada, Miranta Pantazidou.
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being written. Without money and with a bare minimum of means at their disposal, groups from all places are creating without any expectation whatsoever; they are finding new ways to approach an audience and come into ever greater contact with corresponding cores of resistance and creativity in the rest of Europe. And, at the same time, people continue to go out. They continue to be outside. In city squares, cafés and bars are full; making everyone wonder about the nature of the crisis. The need to get out, to share and be light-hearted is equally visible as the melancholia and depression. For some, this reaction is proof positive that the crisis is a phenomenon, whose causes lie embedded in Greek DNA. We are guilty and we must pay, they scream at us along with the stifling majority of the media. Guilt, fear, insecurity, rage, resistance: A web of contradictions, which has created a new Athenian interwoven web, redefining our relationship with reality. What used to be inconceivable, is now likely. What used to be, until now, so far off, is now right here. Three years ago, nobody could have imagined that things would change so fast. This violation of trust in reality leads deterministically to a new fantasy, where our only guide is uncertainty, or rather the certainty that there is no stability. Without any desire to come to any grandiloquent conclusions, but, on the contrary, with a sense of play, “Got To Be Real 1+2” attempts to record all these contradictions. To discover a new form of discourse, which can contain them and which can reformulate them through an act of art. In direct dialogue with the core of themes of Made in Athens, it investigates this new sense of being Athenian, by reformulating the polykatoikia and the relationship between what is public and what is private. 14 fixed frames of varying sizes depict interiors of polykatoikias: As windows looking onto an imaginary light well, they create according to the surrounding actions an internal rhythm of the narrative. Athenian apartments, doctor’s offices, offices, studios or entrances, become small stages, where their inhabitants, like protagonists in a theatre of the absurd, attempt to re-enact the drama of this Athenian present. Their actions, small or great, reflect the contradictions of the public space, which appears to invade the interiors of their apartments like an uninvited guest, violating their privacy. The real and the imaginary coexist on equal terms. Everyday life converses with thoughts, dreams or desires. Nothing appears definitive. Everything is possible.