Yorgos Psailas - A portrait of the British Cemetery caretaker

work-image
Views: 1644

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.

Direction / Photography / Sound / Editing: Mixing: Andreas Vouliakis Translation from Italian: Athanasia Liatsi Ionian University Faculty of Music and Audiovisual Arts – Department of Audiovisual Arts Supervisor: Maria Chalkou



Inner Journey
Eleni Mitrouska
Inner Journey
Safe Travel
Safe Travel
Amateur actor
Lefteris Keteoglou
Amateur actor
Excitatio Corcyrae : Player’s Guide
Despoina-Sofia Kyrgiafini
Excitatio Corcyrae : Player’s Guide
The chained elephant
Alkistis Papa
The chained elephant
Clement-portrait
Vasiliki Kopaila
Clement-portrait
Inside the body
Eleni Mitrouska
Inside the body
Changing room
Nektarios Pachiadakis
Changing room
Voices in our heads
Valassia Dodoulou
Voices in our heads
Recycle
Eurydice Konstantinidou
Recycle
Amateur actor
Views: 1798

A professional electrician works in the villa of the rich professional actor. The electrician is also an amateur theater actor. The love of the amateur actor seems to be greater than the famous actor. The famous actor tries to make money but the amateur tries to do what he loves.

Read more
The chained elephant
Views: 1805

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."

Read more
Clement-portrait
Views: 1177

The portrait of a young, lonely man in a foreign country, whose only consolation is smoking. The documentary observes his daily life: He lives with the basics and wanders in the city. His grief comes from the fact that he is alone without his family.

Read more
Inside the body
Views: 837

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

Read more
Changing room
Views: 529

A place of relative isolation and no influence from the outside environment. Black cloth with a small opening that the viewer enters wearing headphones and playing a soundscape I created on a magnifying glass. 

Read more
Voices in our heads
Views: 879

Α video art piece with performance and art installation elements in public space.

Read more
Recycle
Views: 1014

The movie describes Varvara's life. If you like to learn more about her, just watch it.

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:608 Stack trace: #0 /opt/websites/main/depts/avarts/portfolio/index.php(218): portfolio_update_session() #1 {main} thrown in /opt/websites/main/depts/avarts/portfolio/scripts/functions.php on line 608