Archive 2020 KubaParis

Silent Machines

Location

Athens, GR - Columbia Factory

Date

05.04

Curator

Hyperlink

Photography

Hyperlink

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Artists:Paul Barsch & Tilman Hornig, MRZB, Alexandra Koumantaki, Emmy Skensved, Yannis Voulgaris. Lyrics & Sound: Georgios Karamanolakis. 08:35’ minutes. Mini DV Filmed & Edited by Hyperlink

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Short Description: Silent Machines is a film by Hyperlink Athens that takes place in "Columbia" pressing plant. Owned by the local EMI subsidiary and located in Rizoupoli, Athens, Greece, the factory was established in December 1930 and seized all forms of operations in April 1990. Since then the "dead space" of the factory has seen many different usages. From people living within the abandoned factory to underground rave parties and from scavengers living of the infrastructure of the building to "mystic secret" gatherings. Lyrics: I come from far away lands where words sing of alternate endings. And set up dissonant strings on what once was. Disenthrall our form from safety We travel in silver boxes A vision of void comforts It sleeps in empty units Forgot of what once was and serve on silver ... A here is now. Big houses of a future - past They glimmer in the fall of science. Communally empty and cold. Shout. AA AA AAAA Outcasts of the night. A thousand predictions on the fall. They drip like rusted senses. They humidify the trenches. Revealing a path to the hidden city wall. ''It is truth that hides the fact that there is none'' Their gods in empty spaces, are faces in the dust. We are here for today Tomorrow will never last. And close your eyes and senses, tide up on golden knots. And break in a million spaces. Just fearing for their loss.

Georgios Karamanolakis