Cast off from shore. Into the dim, the dark. Away, away. Adrift in an oarless boat. And deep, deeper below the mirror surface. Then snap. Caught in eddies of regret, past slights, tasks undone, worries fresh and aged. Ever searching for a channel back to the elusive elsewhere. Toil and Spin uses the visual language of minimalism to describe sleep and sleeplessness.
Created shortly after going through a harrowing and transformative personal experience, Visions is a fragmentary work using a mix of stop-motion animation, analog video synthesis, Super 8 and digital video. Emerging from a variety of dreams, memories and visions experienced during a hospitalization Visions is a poetic exploration of the thin line that separates life from death.
Ο χρόνος στη συνείδηση του ανθρώπου(παρελθόν, παρόν, μέλλον) σχετικός χρόνος στη φυσική(διάσταση που κυλάει ανεξάρτητα από την κατάσταση κίνησης του παρατηρητή) ο χρόνος ως ροή στη φιλοσοφία(που κυλά σαν νερό και γλιστρά μέσα από τα χέρια μας) και ο έσχατος χρόνος(τι υπήρξε πριν τη δημιουργία, τι θα υπάρχει μετά το τέλος). Δημιουργήσαμε ρολόγια για να μετράμε τον χρόνο κι αφού με αυτά λοιπόν γεμίσαμε τη ζωή μας, έρχεται η ώρα της εναντίωσης [Λούπα εικόνων που εμπλέκουν τη συνειδητότητα της ταυτότητας των ρολογιών με την απροσάρμοστη ροή στην εξέλιξή της και μουσικές λούπες που έρχονται και φεύγουν και μεταβάλουν την χροιά, την ένταση, τη διάρκεια των ήχων μετατρέποντας τη μελωδία παροδικά σε διαφωνία και το αντίθετο] έναρξη αυτονομίας της σκέψης και της πράξης
The title of the movie “Life - up and down” is self-explanatory! I felt the need the movie end with an “off”.
Two boatwomen travel to meet each other down the river
Tete-a-Tete is a lyrical exploration of human connection, where the language of movement and abstract visuals replace words, inviting viewers into a dance of emotions that unfolds across a 360-degree canvas.
"Microcosmos" is a recent study involving frame-by-frame improvised gestural expressions created with my daughters handprints. Throughout the animation development process, these printed images depict multiple directional movements that may resemble not only personal hand gestures, but also silhouettes and patterns reminiscent of our daily landscapes. This transformation of a child's handprints into animated visual symbols aims to bring to life the personal memories associated with my daughter while growing from infant to a teenager, much in the same way that individuals left their handprints on cave walls in prehistoric times.
This photographic exploration of family photo albums ravaged by water evokes hazy and indistinct memories, poignant witnesses of a fragile past.
Walking means: looking - perceiving - reflecting. Hiking through outer and inner landscapes. Lauren Elkin observes that: "narratives of walking repeatedly leave out a woman's experience." Annemarie Schwarzenbach: “I want nothing more than to walk but wander - from world to world, and never stop.”
Morning star is a story that deals with the union of two uncompromising beings and their path to integration and union, the rebellion of a man who denied his divine destiny, Lucifer is reborn as a bearer of light and hope, charged with bringing peace and helping humanity in its difficult times. The journey and evolution of the female figure from witch, fighter to the mother figure of a divine entity, as well as the involvement of the Three Fates that shape the destiny of gods and mortals, ensuring that the intricate tapestry of existence unfolds according to their divine will, holding the balance of life and death in their ethereal hands.
“Life Path” is a video poetry short art experimental film where I combine mostly travel, monumental and street photography and poetry by using mixed techniques and exploring the possibilities of digital media, a compact camera and a mobile smartphone, in order to narrate a story in a different way and to entirely create, edit and wrap up the project in the same digital media device.This is visual poetry in photographs, a photo-walk through a fictional life path, composed in steps with pauses that bring the non-ending cycle to a culmination and then to a closure. I tried to give a certain meaning to images through the method and the photo sequence, going beyond the literal content of the frames and thus creating more reading levels open to interpretation. Nothing is absolutely fixed or permanent. Everything shifts and is set in motion, in the subtle dynamic of constant quest and search, sparking life. At the same time, the poem unravels shot after shot, sometimes leading the way or even escaping from the imaginary “reality” and other times finding refuge in the images. It is a game flirting with experimentation. As well as the fact that the subject of observation and the observer are not always distinguishable from each other, but also merge and coincide, practically and symbolically. Observation changes perspective from external point of view, of the surrounding world, of the others and self-observation as well in relation to the surrounding world and the others, to internal observation, in time and space, in a state of interactive solitude that differs from existential loneliness. Time and space therefore become relative dimensions and music acts like a magic wand and a transporter between places and points in time, as if transforming into an intangible portal between dimensions that coordinates and harmonizes the multiple elements and keeps the pace. “Life Path” symbolizes a personal journey in a course of infinite possibilities, leaving open the beginning and the end, as it implies the continuity in both directions. And, to conclude, paraphrasing fragments of Heraclitus: “There is nothing but change. So let’s play like children in the time’s flowing river, making art out of life”.
A body that is completely disjointed is trying to put its pieces back together. On this path, it succeeds in creating a collage of itself.
Move into the night.
The film consisting of several dozens of original risograph prints, is an under-the-camera, straight-ahead animation improvised to the rhythm of the scores of Hungarian Barabás Lőrinc jazz trumpeter and composer.
SYNOPSIS A female testimony of a post-apocalyptic “ancient-Greek-drama-alike” non-human chorus of ashes' statues. The ashes of the victims of the genocide of Palestinians arise in an underwater world and tell their story, protected from the inhumanity of humans on earth, and accompanied by mutated fish-birds. A story of love and hope in an age of despair, through an audiovisual breeding of archival folk & revolutionary music, war field recordings and new smart technologies (Artificial Intelligence, VR and AR). LOGLINE “The ashes of the bombarded Palestinians of Gaza have resurrected in an underwater world as anthropomorphic corals, accompanied by mutated fish-pigeons. The ashes of one of the blown-up women tell us their story of love and hope in an age of despair.” Experimental storytelling through Artificial Intelligence, war-field recordings & archival media.
Stones are existences full of possibilities in nature, from sand to mountains, flowing on the land and embracing everything in the world. The Amis people have a profound connection with the land, guarding it for generations and living in harmony with it. Let us re-understand stones from another angle and re-understand the firm but soft hearts of the Amis.
ATHENS ANIMFEST
