As part of the Cycle “The Culture-Borders-Gender/Lab in the City,” we will screen and discuss the film “I Heard God Crying” (86-minute documentary, 2013 production) with its creator Elpida Skoufalou on Wednesday, January 25, 2023, from 18:00 to 20:30, at the Cultural Venue of Islahane (address: Elenis Zografou 3, Thessaloniki).
The film takes us on a journey through Greece, Syria, and Albania. It focuses on rituals of faith, mourning, and lamentation as performed by minority communities, so close yet so distant from us. Marginalized communities from the Balkans and the Mediterranean remind us of the redemptive and healing significance of embodied rituals. These are worlds that communicate with God through the body and whose social actions are imbued with their passions. Worlds where faith in life guides them to honor their dead through rituals. Worlds that speak of forgotten intimacies of post-human inclusion, in harmony with nature and other creatures.
Event language: Greek
