Bread And A Blanket

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It’s Monday, the 13th of December 1943, the small town of Kalavryta is set on fire by the occupation army of Nazi Germany while the entire male population is being gathered on a nearby hill and shot dead. This war crime will go down in history, along with the massacre of Acqui Division, as the largest mass killing in Greece during WWII. Three men who witnessed these events as kids, locked up with the rest women, children and elderly people in Kalavryta’s primary school, recall this traumatic experience.

Director / Cinematographer / Editing / Script / Sound Mix / Music: Dimitris Gkrintzos Supervision: Maria Chalkou Assistant Directors: Nikos Gkrintzos, Margarita Chalakatevaki Sound recording: Dimitris Gkrintzos, Margarita Chalakatevaki Accordeon: Margarita Chalakatevaki Cast: Sokratis Athanasiadis, Yorgos Dimopoulos, Sotiris Thanopoulos



The chained elephant
Alkistis Papa
The chained elephant
EVA
Myrto Gatsiou
EVA
The portrait of my mother
Xanthos Tsafalopoulos
The portrait of my mother
A Quest For Eternity
A Quest For Eternity
Yorgos Psailas - A portrait of the British Cemetery caretaker
Spyros Christoforatos
Yorgos Psailas - A portrait of the British Cemetery caretaker
Confusion
Fani Kesidou
Confusion
Méliès Trilogy
Aris Melachroinos
Méliès Trilogy
Inner Journey
Eleni Mitrouska
Inner Journey
Inside the body
Eleni Mitrouska
Inside the body
The metaphor to the coexistence of real and digital space
Evgenia Faliaridou
The metaphor to the coexistence of real and digital space
The chained elephant
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The project is the animation of the fairy tale "The chained elephant". "The Chained Elephant" is one of the stories of psychiatrist Jorge Bukay from his book "Let me tell you a story" which he tells to his client. It refers to a child' s question who notices that a huge circus elephant remains tied to a small stick without trying to free itself and without protesting. The circus elephant remained tied to his tiny stick because "the memory of the weakness he felt shortly after his birth is etched in his memory."

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EVA
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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.

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The portrait of my mother
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A day in my mother's life. The documentary shows her daily routine, something that I personally find very interesting as I believe that the true self of a person lies in the "insignificant".

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A Quest For Eternity
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The research documentary A Quest for Eternity (2020) focuses in four different elements of Angelopoulos’s style and provides new information using and analysing the data from semi-structured interviews. This research documentary is part of Dr. Iakovos Panagopoulos practice based Phd research in the University of Central Lancashire with the title: “Reshaping Contemporary Greek Cinema Through a Re-evaluation of the Historical and Political Perspective of Theo Angelopoulos's Work”(Panagopoulos, 2019).

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Yorgos Psailas - A portrait of the British Cemetery caretaker
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A short documentary, based on the theory of Observational Cinema. It is the portrait of the caretaker of the British Cemetery in the island of Corfu, Greece, Mr. Yorgos Psailas. The documentary deals with his daily life in the cemetery. Mr. Psailas also recounts the most important moments of his life as well as his thoughts about life and death.

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

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Méliès Trilogy
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The main subject of this thesis is to analyze the special effects that George Melies used and invented, as well as the creation of a short film with special and visual effects, inspired by Melies’ work. This film has been implemented using modern techniques, aiming for an outcome that seems realistic but cannot actually happen in real life. All the techniques that have been used to create the film will be analyzed in depth.

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Inside the body
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Every expression of the subject is inherent in the body image, indicating the lack of being, which desire tries to cover.

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The metaphor to the coexistence of real and digital space
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The video is a documentation of a spatial installation with a dual role, through viewing / observation and participation. The investigation of the relationship that develops between digital and real space, acting in it, as the main axis of the narrative, the human being is the framework of the research with object of study the concept of metaphor to the coexistence of experience as a narrative and of the experience of the present as a fact of performance. The real environment through recording projected into an analog painting and transferred to a digital environment (images-video- video projection) connecting the real, the digital and painting form. Respectively, the natural environment of the installation transferred to the projection surface, in a digital space, via the camera and projector.

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