Greek Queer Sci-Fi Opera with Performance

Saturday 8 October, 17.30, Färjeterminalen, Stadshamnen 26

For the first time in Cinema Queer history – a Greek Queer Sci-Fi Opera!

ORFEAS2021 is a retro-futurist story of utopian politics, ideological conflicts, supernatural leaders, and totalitarian spectacle. Cyberpunk queer pirates against rainbow homo-capitalist normies. Revolution vs reformism; logic vs affect. The trappings of post-internet identity politics through a contemporary take of the myth of Orpheus. Do you follow?

It is an opera of the first gay prime minister of Greece, who struggles to carry the legacy of LGBT-history at a time of post-truth alt-right dystopia. 

We also have the pleasure to introduce our Swedish queer opera singer Isabella Lindström who will introduce the film with a short performance, accompanied by Olga Tomilina. After the film there will be a talk about opera as a queer expression togheter with the writer and half the creator-duo Foivos Dousos, the producer Alex Dimitriou along with Isabella Lindström och will be moderated by the opera singer and opera scientist Tove Dahlberg.

In 2018, queer activist Zak Kostopoulos was beaten to death in Athens, Greece. First civilians attacked him, and then the police finished the job. This tragedy and the complex societal systems that allowed it to happen were the inspiration for the opera Orfeas21 by the creative duo FYTA. The work, a de- and re-construction of Monteverdi’s 1607 opera L’Orfeo, was commissioned as a stage production by the National Theatre of Greece, but the pandemic made it necessary to turn it into a film instead.

FYTA is a conceptual audiotextual performance duo, consisting of Fil Ieropoulos and Foivos Dousos. Since 2012 they have participated in a number of events as performers, but also as curators. They were founding members of the queer music label Fytini (with over 30 releases), the performance art platform Sound Acts (presenting the work of 80+ artists in Athens), as well as various other projects within the local art queer scene.