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Days and Nights of Demetra K.

Eva Stefani

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Queer Strategies and Tentacles: Role Models Days and Nights of Demetra K.
Eva Stefani
2021

74 Minutes

Date
November 11–24, 2024

Demetra is a sex worker, activist and owner of one of the oldest brothels in Athens. By following her everyday life for twelve years, the camera inevitably chronicles the way Athens is affected by the recent financial crisis.

This screening is part of Role Models, the first chapter of the film program Queer Strategies and Tentacles, curated by Rosa Barotsi and Zairong Xiang, and unfolding in eight chapters between November 11th, 2024 and March 2, 2025, with the films of each chapter streaming for two weeks.

For more information, contact program@e-flux.com.

Category
Film
Subject
Experimental Film, Video Art, Documentary, Everyday Life
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Eva Stefani is a film director and visual artist. such as The Box, What time is it, Acropolis, Athene, Days and Nights with Demetra K. Her films have been screened and awarded in international festivals (Cinema du Reel, Oberhausen, Idfa, Europe autour de l’ Europe etc) and she has participated in international exhibitions, such as Documenta14 and the Venice Biennale 2019. She is a professor in the Department of Communication and Media at the School of Communication and Media at the University of Athens. She has published two books on documentary 10 Texts for Documentary, Documentary, The Game of Observation) and a book of poetic prose, Finn’s Hair. She studied Political Science in Athens and film in Paris(Ateliers Varan), New York (New York University) and London (National Film School). Her Ph.D. dissertation is on ethnographic cinema. She has just completed her last feature film Bull’s heart.

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