“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”.
ATHENS ANIMFEST
