Godard once said that "technique is a moral act". The films and videos we selected for "Orgasmic Cinema" re-examine this statement through the programmatic "immorality" of their cinematic syntax and vocabulary. They hold convex mirrors up between history and memory, reality and dream, dream and its reflections, the human flesh and its reincarnation on celluloid or digital bits. And they do so sacrilegiously, unapologetically, blissfully.

Each one in its own idiosyncratic way, they traverse and explore the ever-evolving, crucial landscape of anti-cinema. And we call it anti-cinema, for short films that don't shy away from experimentation, are like the anti-bodies developed by an organism in order to fight a lurking disease. They are the immune system of cinema. By their resistance to tired tropes, stale genres and vacuous representation, they arduously defend the stamina and integrity of the moving image.

And if silver halide or magnetized particles are the itchy flesh of cinema, what is its blood? What are the red cells, carrying oxygen to the muscles, brain and viscera? What are the white cells, fighting off infection, protecting the body from invasion, decay, and even from itself? What makes cinema blush? What makes it shiver, shudder and spill its precious bodily fluids?

These are the questions that we persistently ask at Cinematexas since its inception in 1995. We picked some of the most daring and stimulating responses to this challenge for the Thessaloniki audience, as a testimony to the fact that, in spite of pessimistic predictions, cinema is not just alive: it's constantly and stubbornly reborn; kicking and screaming, breathing and shrieking, resisting confinement, bouncing all over those hundred years in suspension of disbelief.

All three programs are planned like road trips into the heart of innovative and groundbreaking cinema. And like all road trips with no fixed destination, maps or rental cars, this one explores new alternative routes, secret lands of fragile, yet visceral images. It is our pleasure and privilege to take this adventurous road trip with Greek audiences as our co-pilots. New blood. New flesh. New lovers.