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Inside is an art film, made in one single fascinating six-hour take, capturing a large-scale theatre experiment. The Greek artist Dimitris Papaioannou, whose new work is being performed at the festival, built a room in the Pallas Theatre in the heart of Athens. Thirty performers went home to it repeatedly. For six hours they performed the rituals, movements and habits of people in their homes. Inside shows the extraordinary similarity of all people’s behaviour when in the confines of their own home. Audiences are invited to enter whenever they want, see as much as they want, and come back as many times as they want. 'Reality stands in opposition to the aesthetically perfect appearances of the thirty young performers, who seem to have sprung from Edward Hopper and David Hockney paintings to fill the space. This endeavour manages to stimulate thought in these times of absolute impasse, where the need for mental reorientation is urgent and essential.’ – Naftemporiki Programme

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visual concept Dimitris Papaioannou direction Dimitris Papaioannou set design Dimitris Theodoropoulos, Sofia Dona video installation Dimitris Theodoropoulos, Sofia Dona music K.BHTA sound design Kostas Michopoulos light design Dimitris Papaioannou, Alekos Yiannaros costumes Dimitris Papaioannou, Thanos Papastergiouproductie cast Thanassis Akokkalidis, Pavlina Andriopoulou, Natassa Aretha, Panos Athanasopoulos, Savvas Baltzis, Ilia De Tchaves-Poga, Nikos Dragonas, Altin Huta, Yorgos Kafetzopoulos, Konstantinos Karvouniaris, Amalia Kosma, Eleftheria Lagoudaki, Euripides Laskaridis, Tadeu Liesenfeld, Konstantinos Maravelias, Yorghos Matskaris, Yiannis Nikolaidis, Christos Papadopoulos, Yiannis Papakammenos, Simos Patieridis, Ilias Rafailidis, Kalliopi Simou, Diogenis Skaltsas, Drossos Skotis, Manolis Theodorakis, Michalis Theophanous, Simon Tsakiris, Sophia Tsiaousi, Vangelis Zarkadas on-stage video projections shot by the Inside team direction assistant Tina Papanikolaou creative production Tina Papanikolaou direction technique Kostas Kefalas production manager Kostas Kefalas camera telios Kammitsis, Thodoris Michopoulos colour correction Matt Johnson (Haos Film) technical advisor projections Matt Johnson (Haos Film) stage installation presented at Pallas Theatre in Athene stage installation produced by Elliniki Theamaton video installation produced by 2WORKS air carrier sponsor AEGEAN AIRLINES