Duration: 44 minutes
Cinematheque 2, Tel-Aviv
Monday, November 15, 2021, 14:30 – Tickets
Maria Cyber is one of the first lesbian activists on the Greek LGBTQI+ scene.
She has studied photography, graphics, web design and film studies. Created the biggest portal for lesbians in Greece (www.lesbian.gr), and in 2007 Outview Film Festival: Athens International LGBTQI Film Festival, Days of Queer Cinema (www.outview.gr).
She is also a queer filmmaker who directs short non-budget movies that bring to the screen kicking inspiring queer energy.
Friends & Benefits
Director, Script & Producer: Maria Katsikadakou (a.k.a. Maria Cyber)
With: Laura Cain
Greece, England, 2021, 27 min, English without translation
Festivals:
Athens International Film Festival Official Selection 2021
Thessaloniki Documentary Festival Official Selection 2021
Butch, dyke, with tattoos and a skinny green mohawk, inseparable from her wheelchair, she would roam around Camden with her lesbian posse. Diagnosed with MS (multiple sclerosis) since her late teens, she lived her life in a way many able-bodied people would covet. So, what was it that allowed her to have this quality of life despite her disability?
Dildo Riot
Director, Script & Producer: Maria Katsikadakou (a.k.a. Maria Cyber)
With: Maria Cyber, Olga Michali
Greece, 2021, 9 minutes, Greek with English translation
A documentary shot during the height of the Covid-19 plague.
Maria Cyber brings to mind an unforgettable night in Athens with a A Marky Ramone gig, a murder, a riot, and a how a huge dildo rolled into her hands.
SO QUITE
Director, Script & Producer: Maria Katsikadakou (a.k.a. Maria Cyber)
Greece, Norway, 2018, 8 minutes, English without translation
The director’s statement:
Most of the people are born with a specific sex organ. I realized that one of the sex organs has much less representation in images, films, and videos than the other one. I realized that the most “silent” one, the one who doesn’t give a big visual “performance”, is so underrepresented! One day I got the idea to visually show what is the performance of the “silent” sex organ, so I made this short film that I named SO QUIET! There is a kind of “war” out there around gender issues. Let’s “zoom in” and bring more equality within our community by giving some “voice” to the quiet one, no matter what body/gender is carrying it!
I could not help but notice how often a male sex organ appears in films – a penis, a cock, a dick, in all its different states: soft, asleep, or, more often than not, hardening and then having impressive ejaculations.
I realised how visible and big the performativity of the dick is. You never have to ask a man if he is horny or if he ‘came’. The answer is there, in front of your eyes.
But the opposite goes for the pussy: everything is happening internally.
What is the performativity of a pussy when penetration is absent?
Can pussy’s performativity be visual?