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Highlights:
00:52 Murder footage of Alexis G. (Two cops murder in cold blood an unarmed 15 year-old student)
32:03 Autopsy.
45:43 "A gap separates each and every one of us..." Marina and Michael.
48:06 "It's rock'n'roll down there man and the surf guitar is fuckin' broken". "Jimmyboy" and "Driver".
1:11:44 "It's gonna a bloody Christmas...." . Sean and Marina.
1:14:06 Murder 101 in the movie theater's bathroom. "I just wanted to be friends..." Anna and Geraldine.
1:18:07 In the mountains of bloody madness ("There's no future for us, Michael!" Anna)... 1:25:00 Birth of a baby. (Lorena-Sean-Marina).
For English Closed Captions please press CC. To watch the movie in the highest resolution possible for YouTube please choose HD 1080p. The production of this film was financed independently without any EU, or state subsidies.
..The plot of "December Riots" written, produced and directed by Dimitri Vorris, focuses on a group of seven characters, Europeans and Americans, trapped in a subterranean art-house movie theater during the 2008 riots, watching the all time classic masterpiece of Italian master's Luchino Visconti's "Senso"- that deals with love, decadence passion and betrayal, during tumultuous times and real historical events . While the outside cosmos has rioted because of the police killing of 15 year-old student Alexandros Gregoropoulos that sparked riots in over 70 cities worldwide... the filmgoers remain into relative safety, or so they think, to save their skins. The arthouse "theater", its "owner" and "projectionist" become a metaphor for a lost generation (-s)that feared to riot against the current. The film alternates between reality (the harsh, outside world) and fiction (the characters inside). Emotionally moved by the murder of an innocent child in cold-blood, and after seeing a rough cut of the film, multi award-winning internationally renowned composer Moby contributed four, never before published, tracks to the original sountrack of the film: 18, HOMEWARD ANGEL (LONG), BLACKROOM, THE LONELY NIGHT (PHOTEK REMIX). ...Police violence. Interpersonal relationships’ violence. A looted country in despair. Seven characters trapped in an arthouse movie theater. A countdown to extinction... ....Three years before the movement of the “indignados” and OCCUPY WALL STREET there were “December Riots”. «DECEMBER RIOTS», is a feature length film written, produced and directed by Dimitri Vorris, was in post-production, while a new wave of riots swept Greece on June 29th, 2011. The film's epicenter is the cold-blooded execution of 15 year-old student Alexander Gregoropoulos by two policemen in a downtown Athens café on December 6, 2008. ...Based on a real incident -the director himself was trapped on December 8, 2008 in a downtown arthouse movie theater during the 2008 riots-the independently financed, claustrophobic thriller, that was filmed entirely on location in Athens, Greece, focuses on a group of seven characters, Europeans and Americans, trapped in an art-house movie theater during the 2008 riots. 23 year-old newcomer British actress Lucy Lemos (Marina-DJ Lightdust), Duncan Skinner ("Jimmyboy") , Fanis Katechos ("Projectionist"), prolific actor Avraam Papadopoulos ("Theater Owner'), popular comedian/director Nikos Giannikas (Sean) anchor a youthful and talented supporting cast that includes Vivian Ioannou (Anna), Aris Athan ("Driver"), Nasos Pappas (Jeff), Michael Angels (Michael), Louise Rheas (Lorena), Aris Pappas (Informant), Maria Floratou (Geraldine), Kostas Antalopoulos ("Cleaner"), Christina Mani (Riots Chronicle Narrator).
“...
Independent production, handmade, and made possible with countless
fights on the side of its creator, December Riots, comes to remind us
the life we never lived, the fight we never fought and the reasons we
got here, with bowed heads and humiliated lives ... " Chrisostomakis
Laktaridis, DOCTV.GR
"December Riots is important, timely, and hits it's mark. Acclaimed Greek-born filmmaker Dimitri Vorris has beautifully interwoven fact and fiction, to create a dramatic tale, that is both horrifying and thought-provoking". Christopher Martini, Director-Producer "The Stone Child", "Trooper" #DecemberRiots #indie #feature #comingsoon #December6 #Greeceburns4allofus
#DecemberRiots #indie #feature #comingsoon #December6 #Greeceburns4allofus "Dimitri Vorris's DECEMBER RIOTS arrives like a storm that signals the times are a-changing again and that as a world we're on the cusp between despair and hope." Amos Poe, Filmmaker, Leading figure of the No Wave Cinema Movement, "UNMADE BEDS", "THE FOREIGNER", "SUBWAY RIDERS", "EMPIRE II", "THE GUITARS", "ROCKET GIBRALTAR".