A Portrait of an old woman

A young bicycle rider explains why he wants to spend so much time with this sport: The hard and great times that bike gives him.

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).

The documentary is about Lia, observing her with the stray cats of Plaka and Tula, the female dog that lives in Pedion Areos. Lia loves and cares about animals. Every day she walks around the city having food in her bag and feeding any animal she meets.

Elpiniki and her deep passion for flute and singing.

As an observer, who neither intervenes nor interacts with the subject, this documentary attempts to present parts of the everyday life of a music therapy student, emphasizing her expressions and reactions while producing sounds and improvising.

This short film is the portrait of a man, emphasizing a specific aspect of himself, that is, his engagement with musical improvisation.

The present postgraduate thesis was prepared in the context of the completion of the postgraduate program of the Department of Sound and Visual Arts of the Ionian University.
The study of the subject will be the facts and data on the occasion of the completion of 200 years since the Greek Revolution.
The present work aims to enrich the theoretical framework of study. Its structure is based on data that I have collected (rare photographic material, letters, etc.), from the Public Archives of the State, the Kapodistrias Museum and the Reading Company.

The narration of the basic changes in the life of an everyday man during 2020. The deprivations, the adjustments, but also the losses he suffered during such a strange period of time. All this through the perspective of his daily activities within a single day.

The portrait of Dimitra Samara, a talented dress designer, who decided to pursue her dream only a few years ago. A great misfortune in her life brought her closer to her dreams. The only way to overcome her shock was to escape through her passion. So, through a voice-over narration and the creation of a dress, from scratch to its final form, we follow a parallel evolution: That of the red dress and of her own self.