A Portrait of an old woman

This video was created as part of the work for the art class of technical images. It was named lock down as it takes place during the second quarantine and shows two parallel lives of people and how each of them experiences their confinement. The idea, the shots and the editing are by Markella Floka and the music was entirely edited by Dimitris Pantelis.

Elpiniki and her deep passion for flute and singing.

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

A journalist, who has lost his identity, visits an uncanny land, in which the smile is banned by law. He feels lost in its dystopia, consisted of self-destructive people, who deplore the smile. He gains many personal experiences that make him unaware of his aim and his human state as well. Will he eventually be able to find a way out?

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.

A portrait of Antonis, a homeless man living in the old town of Corfu.

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 a city-symphony focusing on the people of the city, their interrelations, their behavior, their habits, their relationship with the city and how all of the above were affected by the lockdown, the mandatory use of a mask, and the policing and surveillance.

The documentary presents an important incident that happened in Poland in October 2020: The government announced the almost universal ban on abortions, and daily protests followed until the government freeze the law. Two women talk about their own involvement in demonstrations and express their feelings about government decisions.