KINE (est. 2001) was an Athens-based collective of film-makers and -aficionados who meticulously arranged experimental film screenings in various spaces throughout the city—on roof tops, in bars, artist studios, galleries, cinemas, festivals and public space.

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Adopting its name from Werner Nekes’ concept of the two-frame unit as the fundamental element of film, KINE was active for over a decade, introducing the work of established filmmakers such as Jonas Mekas and Stan Brackage, as well as films by its members and emerging artists, to a local audience—pre-youtube and accompanied by specially produced program texts and materials.

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As part of the Golden Pixel Cooperative’s event series Collective Infrastructures, KINE founding member Constantinos Hadzinikolaou gives for the first time an insight into the multi-faceted activities of the group by reviving selected film rarities and classics in the course of a mixed-media performative lecture: an Austrian premiere!

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Constantinos Hadzinikolaou (b. 1974) is an artist, filmmaker and writer based in Athens. His core filmography consists of silent Super 8 films, each of a length of no more than three minutes. Moreover, he has written two poetry chapbooks and a novel. In 2017, he participated in documenta 14 in Athens and Kassel with two works combining film and literature, inhabiting both spaces simultaneously, with equal intensity and a need to escape the bounds of both: „Hadzinikolaou’s approach is poetic—or antipoetic, as he prefers to believe. It is also political, or political by chance, because in his view, the more poetic a text is (the more precise, that is), the more violent and political it becomes.” (Katerina Tselou) Hadzinikolaou is currently preparing a documentary about the history of a Greek rock ’n’ roll band and working on his next novel.

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Event in English, followed by a Q&A with the artist and art and cultural scientist Antonia Rahofer.

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A comprehensive retrospective of Constantino Hadzinikolaou’s filmic works will be shown on 11th December at Blickle Kino.

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This event is organised in cooperartion with The Golden Pixel Cooperative.

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Concept: Eleni Michaelidi and Antonia Rahofer in collaboration with Constantinos Hadzinikolaou and Phaedra Papadopoulou.

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Constantinos Hadzinikolaou