Lysis / 2019

A father takes his estranged son on a rafting trip into the wilderness that suddenly turns into a struggle for survival. As they get to know each other better, old wounds open up. Each of them slowly becomes aware of the other’s side of the story.

Lysis / 1949

Markopoulos called Lysis “a study in stream-of-consciousness poetry of a lost, wandering, homosexual soul” and felt that the film foreshadowed The Illiac Passion.

Lysis /

The result of three years of experimentation, “Lysis” cycles through five different film stocks and a variety of processing methods. A hybrid of optical effects, post-processing analog techniques and digital effects achieves a mosaic of painterly impressions. “Lysis” revolves around themes of the porosity of the self in relation to memory, place and time.

Lysistrata or The Kissing Strike / 1910

The Life and Death of Anna Lysis / 2021

Anna Lysis is a celebrated drag queen and singer. Over the course of one night, she encounters various older men, all of whom desire and harass her with their lustful looks, comments, and gestures. In the end, all of these encounters culminate in an act of violence that raises questions about trauma, oppression, and identity.

Lysistrata / 2010

Lysistrata leads the women of Greece in a revolt against the male establishment calling on them to ban sex in order to stop a bloody conflict. A bold, visual, highly accessible, no-nonsense approach to the contemporary staging of a classical text

Lysistrate / 1981

The women of Athens plotting to end the war with Sparta by refusing to have sex until there is peace.

Die Sendung der Lysistrata / 1961

Persuaded by Lysistrata, the women of Athens agree to withdraw all sexual favours from the men until the men agree to end to war with Sparta.

Lysistrata / 2019

Lysistrata is an experimental black-and-white short film reinterpretation loosely based on the ancient Greek comedy of the same name by Aristophanes.

Lysistrata / 1965

Lysistrata / 1976

An adaption of Aristophanes' satirical poetic comedy into a strictly personal ludic burlesque. All actors perform naked. This is due not simply to the budget being too small to accommodate the appropriate costumes and regalia; Ludo Mich also intended to use his particularity to heighten the impact of Aristophanes' anarchistic ideas.

Comedy of Lysistrata / 1989

Lysistrata led the women of ancient Greece in forcing men to stop the war, that was devastating the land for 21 years. At secret assembly of the women delegates from both sides of the conflict, Lysistrata declared: "We must refrain from the male altogether - till the men come to terms of peace". Her instruction to every wife or mistress was to refuse all sexual favors whatsoever, and sit prettily dressed in best transparent silks, till the men yield to peace.

Lysistrata / 1972

Based on Aristophanes's play, Athenian women band together to encourage their men to stop fighting the Spartans by withholding sex from them when they return from the front.