{"id":93991,"date":"2026-07-08T17:00:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T14:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cycladic.gr\/?post_type=event&p=93991"},"modified":"2026-07-08T16:59:47","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T13:59:47","slug":"cycladic-screening-2","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/cycladic.gr\/en\/draseis\/cycladic-screening-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Cycladic Screening"},"content":{"rendered":"
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YOUNG FRIENDS<\/p>

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\n As part of the exhibition Jeff Koons: \u2018Venus\u2019 of Lespugue, the Museum of Cycladic Art collaborated with the 16th Athens Open Air Film Festival, powered by DEI and organised the Cycladic Screening at Eleftherias Park, where it secured exclusively for the Cycladic Young Friends 30 double invitations.
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\r\nThe screening featured \u201cThe Virgin Spring\u201d (Jungfruk\u00e4llan), directed by Ingmar Bergman and selected by Jeff Koons.
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Jeff Koons returns again and again to the ancient forms that bind us to our own history, and the figure of the \u201cVenus\u201d has occupied him since the late 1970s. Innocence and self-acceptance, the body as the source of life, and the gleaming, mirrored surface that is completed only when the viewer stands before it and meets their own reflection within it: these are the constants of his work. The same themes recur, in a far more sombre register, in Ingmar Bergman\u2019s \u201cThe Virgin Spring.\u201d Set in medieval Sweden, at the moment when the old pagan faith is giving way to the Christian one, the film is a story of innocence, loss and redemption that seeks, as its very title suggests, the source of life through darkness, the same generative force carried by the Paleolithic \u201cVenuses\u201d of the exhibition.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Virgin Spring\u201d (Jungfruk\u00e4llan) | 1960, 89\u2019
\nDirector: Ingmar Bergman
\nScreenplay: Ulla Isaksson, based on a 13th-century Scandinavian ballad
\nCast: Max von Sydow, Birgitta Valberg, Gunnel Lindblom, Birgitta Pettersson<\/strong>
\nMedieval Sweden, on the threshold between the old pagan faith and the new Christian one. Young, innocent Karin sets out to carry candles to the church and, on the way, falls victim to a terrible act of violence; her father, T\u00f6re (Max von Sydow), takes merciless revenge, only to find himself afterwards broken before his own crime and before the silence of God. With an austere, almost spare eye, and through the luminous black-and-white photography of Sven Nykvist, Bergman does not hold us at a distance but draws us into the heart of the drama, turning the act of looking into one that carries moral weight.
\nAnd when all seems lost, at the very place where innocence was extinguished, water springs from the earth, a source, a beginning, life rising up out of death. Winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, \u201cThe Virgin Spring\u201d remains one of the director\u2019s harshest and at the same time most luminous works, a reverent allegory of loss and redemption that, in its final image, touches the oldest theme of the exhibition: the source of life itself.<\/p>\n\n \n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n

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