Using contemporary documentary images DISASTRO portrays a dark future for Athens. Throughout the landscape, the shortcomings of liberal democracy and capitalism rear their heads, heralding the birth of a regime of permanent crisis. By roaming the city and its abandoned places, this psycho-geographic journey depicts an almost apocalyptic vision: a city forsaken, left bearing the scars of past struggles. An unwelcoming and lifeless place: people squat in abandoned factories and the only remaining industry is the recycling of junk. Expressionistic rather than journalistic or explanatory, Disastro portrays a bleak future using desolate visuals and an ominous soundscape.

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