Cinematography
[ Erma, 12′, 2021 ] : Erma, neutral: Principles or motives which guide one’s behaviour or actions.
A movie about gender, the body; and all of the interweaving moments found in their midst.
The perpetual process and struggle of forming a gendered subjectivity against the repressive notions of heteronormativity is explored through an abstract narrative viewpoint and techniques found in stop-motion animation and body horror genre. From birth till death, the glitch in the code of patriarchy submits and resists, emerges through but is also confined by the “ghosts” of social discourse. With the use of heavy religious symbolism and an ironic and challenging attitude; “ERMA” highlights the contradictions of gender construction, both in the fields of solitary subjectivity as well as in relation to the dominant heteronormative narrative.
Directed by Angelos Charalambous for the purposes of his Thesis. A mix of different techniques of cinematography and non/practical effects results in a hunting experimental body horror film. The crew consisted of a small group of close friends determined actualize this vision in a self-oragnised fashion.
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Festivals:
|Fringe! Queer Film & Arts Fest | International Short Film Festival of Cyprus | Queer Wave: the Cyprus LGBTQIA+ film festival | |ANIMASYROSInternational Animation Festival | Countryside Animafest Cyprus | Animaphix International Animated Film Festival |
[ Mamadoo, 12′, 2022 ] The Athenian concrete landscape gets transformed inside the colorful shop of a passionate artist who is trying to pursue a career in fashion design, combining together the urban lifestyle with the Senegalese tradition.
A film co-created with Vanessa Macedo and Christina Papa for the purposes of Athens Summer School in Visual Ethnographic Practices organized by Ethnofest in collaboration with the University of Amsterdam.
[Fieldnotes of a travelling stranger]
In spring of 2019 went to Moldova for six months as part of my University’s Erasmus exchange program, intrigued but the country’s cultural and political history and the possible similarities with my home-country Cyprus, as both countries share a traumatic past of ethnic division and conflict. I didn’t know any of the local languages and most of the people there could not communicate in English, nevertheless i decided to document my experience both in written and visual means. I visited public spaces daily and observed the locals in their routines while grasping any opportunity of interaction. Below you can find a rough cut of some of the visual material.
During my stay i got associated with some of the first post-soviet movements of young political and climate activists. Having a diverse political background the initial motive for their encounter was to defend the privatization of a ex-soviet café.
One of the most intense moments throughout my stay was at the period of the constitutional crisis. There two generations collided with the older one supporting the conservation of one of the main political powers of Moldova and in result camped outside governmental buildings to show their solidarity to the party.
One of the places that i visited was Poiana were the 13th edition of Art Labyrinth festival took place. Located consciously at the banks of river Nistru, the natural border between Moldova and the autonomous unrecognized state of Transnistria, being accessible by both communities. Art Labyrinth is one of the main groups who manage “Zemstvei Museum” a social center located in Chișinău and since 2012 it houses cultural events and discussions. The building was abandoned for decades until it was transformed by grass-roots initiatives of the locals. Even though it has been given to the public legally, the National Museum of Ethnography and Natural History which owns the building, has been occasionally threating the community for eviction.
Στόλεν – “23” [Music Video]