Athens, my love

work-image
Views: 1176

An essay-film which looks for mnemic traces of major political events inscribed in the body of the metropolitan entity of Athens. It focuses on case-studies of a counter-hegemonic history, from the mid-20th century till the early 21st century, in which the logos and praxis of individual or collective subjects have been suppressed till death. These are cases that an official history has either neglected or cleansed of their association with insurrectionist potential. The film develops around interviews with architects and historians, makes use of archive material and also employs fictional elements – all of which are contextualised by a voice-over dialogue. “Athens, my love” looks for space between formal monumentalisation mechanisms (which claim objectivity) on the one hand and personal fragments of memory (which often lie in the domain of subjective contemplation) on the other.

Written & Directed by: Dimitris Kechris
Cinematography: Dimitris Kechris
Camera operators: Dimitris Kechris, Nikos Dalezios, Vangelis Tatsis
Voice-over: Dimitris Kechris, Kalliopi Tzermani
Editing: Dimitris Kechris
Colour Grading: Nikos Dalezios
Original Music: Nikos Tsolis
Sound Design: Nikos Dalezios, Nikos Tsolis
Cast: Stavros Stavrides, Angela Dimitrakaki, Menelaos Charalampidis, Dimitris Kechris
Producer: Dimitris Kechris
Supported by: Athens School of Fine Arts



Confusion
Fani Kesidou
Confusion
Private - Public
Dimitra Politi
Private - Public
Audio Crossings
Konstantinos Tsioutas
Audio Crossings
Wroom
Konstantia Makri
Wroom
EVA
Myrto Gatsiou
EVA
Inner Journey
Eleni Mitrouska
Inner Journey
Ticket
Marina Kappou
Ticket
DeepRedShip
Christina Sfakianaki
DeepRedShip
Panopticon
Lampros Marios Pavlakis
Panopticon
7500+1 sculptures
7500+1 sculptures
Confusion
Views: 1088

An interactive symbolic work consisting of a wire brain construction is presented. 

Read more
Private - Public
Views: 1393

This changing frame represents an allegorical image of human nature, which when it is in dialectic with the outside world - during the transition from private to public life, experiences conflicting feelings of apprehension, anticipation, reticence, curiosity and extroversion.

Read more
Audio Crossings
Views: 1391

Multiple distance sensors trigger sound events ας people move around and get close to the grid with the srceens.

Read more
Wroom
Views: 1124

The Wroom, is a movie that start with two red iron cars, a 1953 Chevrolet 1100 & a 1954 Magirus Deutz small fire engine, spilling out of a race of skills, flips and drifts at speed in the dining room of their home. In a brightly room, in a world where imagination knows no bounds.

Read more
EVA
Views: 2479

The short documentary focuses on the preparation of the solo performance "EVA", performed by the dancer and performer Evangelia Randou. The project is based on her personal experiences and has been created and staged by her. The film reveals the moments when the dancer works with her body, experiments, creates and improvises. The documentary is a portrait of the dancer herself, but also of the work she creates.

Read more
Ticket
Views: 1520

documentary - Narrated by Christina Koblitsi

Read more
DeepRedShip
Views: 1209

Paraphrase, reference of the title to the depression caused by the shocking images of drowned children in the Mediterranean, the watery grave of persecuted refuges.

Read more
Panopticon
Views: 1122

It is an Interactive Installation that deals with the issues of immigration, wars and surveillance of citizens on a global scale.

Read more
7500+1 sculptures
Views: 1191

The Video installation in the exhibition emphasizes and at the same time negates the temporality of a medium whose dominant form of expression is space.

Read more
Terms of use:

These works may be saved and copied for your personal and scholarly purposes. These works are protected by intellectual rights license Creative Commons:
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)

Free public access to these works is allowed. Any interested party can freely copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format, provided appropriate credit is given to the original work and its creator. These works cannot be remixed, transformed, build upon, or used for commercial purposes.

AVARTS IONIAN UNIVERSITY

Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function create_session() in /opt/websites/main/depts/avarts/portfolio/scripts/functions.php:642 Stack trace: #0 /opt/websites/main/depts/avarts/portfolio/index.php(237): portfolio_update_session() #1 {main} thrown in /opt/websites/main/depts/avarts/portfolio/scripts/functions.php on line 642