Film screening (+ Q&A) of ‘work / memories of work’ (UK, 2024) by Ektoras Arkomanis and Nurturing Ecologies (UK, 2025) by White Teeth 98 (Ella Barrett and Jashan Walton) hosted by Exlibris Practice at Close-Up Cinema.
‘Work / Memories of Work’ (UK, 2024) a film by Ektoras Arkomanis.
The last days of a tannery in Eleonas, in Athens, are set against a backdrop of work in the surrounding neighbourhoods – scavengers’ markets, old farmhouses, abandoned kilns, people labouring away amid factory ruins, in dumps, and abandoned construction sites. Written on postcards which were never sent, the narration is a polyphonic poem with fragments of literature, testimony and collective memory that span centuries. Eleonas has crossed through many identities – from ancient olive grove to infrastructural hub, industrial zone, a place of dereliction – but it has always remained on the margins of the city’s conscience.
The last days of a tannery in Eleonas, in Athens, are set against a backdrop of work in the surrounding neighbourhoods – scavengers’ markets, old farmhouses, abandoned kilns, people labouring away amid factory ruins, in dumps, and abandoned construction sites. Written on postcards which were never sent, the narration is a polyphonic poem with fragments of literature, testimony and collective memory that span centuries. Eleonas has crossed through many identities – from ancient olive grove to infrastructural hub, industrial zone, a place of dereliction – but it has always remained on the margins of the city’s conscience.
Nurturing Ecologies (UK,2025) a film by White Teeth 98
Community archivist and curator Ella Barrett and filmmaker-photographer Jashan Walton explore the intersection of community world-building and creative practice through a 2023 residency by RESOLVE Collective.