Girlhood follows the story of three seventeen-year-old girls in a neighborhood in the center of Athens as they go through the difficult period of transition to adulthood while in quarantine isolation. Christina, Nefeli and Vera experiencing sexism, dream of their independence and try to learn to love themselves. With their faces glued to a screen, they take refuge in each other and await to finish school.
Just a man walking with nothing to say.
Two men go in search of a birdman to become a bird in nine steps.
Having a chat with my alter ego as it looks on my holding two pairs of scissors and slowly cutting my hair. Sometimes it encourages me and at other times, it tries to stop me.
Isabella is in quarantine due to the coronavirus. She decides it’s the right time to read all of Darwin’s books, but the writing is heavy and she falls asleep while reading. Darwin’s ghost appears in her dream. He wants to talk about the expression of emotions, because Isabella is an actress. Darwin explains that in his book “On the Expression of Emotions on Man and Animals,” he presents his hypothesis that basic expressions – just like bones or the famous beaks of his finches – are also shaped by evolution.
“We are the King of Ventilators” is a compelling and prescient performance to camera by Jim Fletcher, directed by Tim Etchells, with text by Chris Thorpe. The work takes a phrase about US ventilator production repeated by US President Donald Trump during the Covid-19 epidemic, and places it in sharp counterpoint with original material to create a comical and unsettling reflection on power, mortality, and delusion.
HOW ARE WE is a collectively-created performance consisting of fifteen 90-second solos that respond to 10 prompts proposed by artists Emily Mast and Yehuda Duenyas.
Captures of Kareem’s universe during the pandemic. A short film about the feeling of isolation, creating art in a world paused by Covid-19, and friendship.
Hamlet browses his desktop. Shakespeare’s play themes become transparent through the use of media. During an evening screen-mirroring, love, grief, anti-depressants, death, self- destruction are intermixed with endless references to pop internet culture, to animation, to current affairs.
Altostratus clouds are grey or blue grey. The sun or moon may shine through these clouds but it's signaling that a storm is on the way. This is a piece involving movement, sound, and text. It is meant to hold a space for reflection, to consider what hangs above us and how it all may fall.
A native acanthus (Acanthus mollis L.) is torn apart. Laocoon’s Group and the allegory of Saint Paisios of Mount Athos. Arvo Pärt's “Triodion” begins with Trisagion and ends with it. Every beginning of Spring, Aris suppresses the momentum of weeds in the garden.
"I do what I do as an artist to bring beauty to the world. These masks are my contribution to and acknowledgment of my place as a useful and productive member of our human society."
“AntiBody” is about an emotional state during the times of the pandemic. Feeling the vulnerability of the body, “AntiBody” becomes a form of resistance, physically and psychologically. It’s also about movement and the lack thereof. While I was working on this piece, I was reading about the therapeutical properties of the Orphic hymns, Gurdjieff’s sacred movements and the synthetic organisms called Xenobots.
Five sights of Athens as seen from another point of view. The various names of Truman, the passing-by runner, Charilaos Trikoupis’ specialty, the animal instincts of love, and Melina, they all share personal data in the time of mask-wearing. Now, people and sights find time to get to know each other.
Sometimes you feel like an inflated prophylactic glove, and you almost want to jump out the window.
How dynamic our posture is depends on our feet’s intelligence. We age from our feet. Keep them alive. Move them.
A rapper writes his new song, talking about his night out in the center of Athens. He sits in the kitchen of his apartment, where we see a mosaic floor and some colorful tiles on the wall. At night, a car wash transforms into a kickboxing studio, where the employees practice in pairs – yet all alone. The floor is mosaic and there are colorful tiles on the wall.
The everyday life of a man locked down in a house takes imaginary turns. In times of isolation and deprivation, his mind leaps to the elusive, while he is restrained inside the four walls of his house.
Fighting Monkey Practice. Want to move better? Age better? Cope better with stress and the uncertainty of everyday life? How about start working on it while housebound? Linda and Jozef are introducing the basic principles of Fighting Monkey Practice. Life rarely happens as you expect. Most of the time it is unpredictable. What games do you play to grow young? There are no ‘exercises’ complex enough to prepare you for life. But open games–or movement situations as we call them–which involve partners, ever-changing rules, and are developed through the context in which we live, can. Instead of trying to ‘fix’ your body, try to learn joyfully and with long lasting benefits the importance of adaptability.
This is a spell to move grief into the light of day, inspired by the riotous singing of the birds on COVID spring mornings. The sounds come from North Indian classical music, broken to pieces and composed into new form, through the body.
