BRIDGES SERIES
Live Music Cinema: Sam Green and yMusic
The Bridges series is directed by Dimitris Maragopulos
In collaboration with the Embassy of the United States in Athens
What is the connection between the Guinness Book of Records, a documentary, a six-piece band and a narrator? The audience will have the chance to find out at the screening of the film The Measure of All Things by Sam Green, accompanied by live music (16/3).
The two-day program featuring the Academy Award-nominated American director will also include a concert and a master class by the yMusic ensemble (13/3) and a crowd-funding with Sam Green (16/3).
The Measure of All Things
Screening of documentary, accompanied by live music
The film Measure of All Things, which premiered at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival, is a meditation on fate, time, and the outer contours of the human existence. Inspired loosely by the Guinness Book of Record, the film weaves together a series of portraits of record-holding people, places, and things – from the tallest man in the world to the oldest living person and the person with the world’s longest name. Green does not focus on the records themselves, but on the lives of their holders, highlighting in this way the individual and collective search for meaning. What makes the experience of the film unique is the fact that it is narrated live by the director himself while a live band performs the soundtrack.
The six-member yMusic ensemble will accompany the Academy Award-nominated director at this live-cinema experience of The Measure of All Things.
Crowd-funding workshop (at 5 p.m. – MC2 Hall)
Filmmakers and artists will have the opportunity to meet director Sam Green at a workshop, where he will share the secrets of the successful crowd-funding campaign for his film.
Free admission