The Moviegoer: Film (s)trips

The Moviegoer recounts a unique cinematic escape centered on Temenos screenings of Gregory Markopoulos’s Eniaios in Lyssarea, Greece. The diary places the experience within the context of Chicago’s independent film scene and marks the author’s “broke day trip” inspired by the Reader’s Broke Day Trips package. Temenos, described as a sacred precinct, offers access via an approximately 30-minute hike from Lyssarea’s center, with a screen set in a field and red beanbag chairs around the perimeter. The 22-part Eniaios is shown in stages since 2004, and this year’s edition ran four nights from Thursday through Sunday, covering Cycles XV to XVII, with runtimes from around three hours to more than four on the final night. Before leaving Athens, the author saw Steven Spielberg’s Disclosure (2026) on 70mm at AMC River East, one of 19 U.S. theaters offering that format.