The screening programme features clusters of moving image works, shot by students of the Department of Audio and Visual Arts during the academic year 2024-2025.
Coordination: Tatiana Veligratli, Vassoula Grammatopoulou, Selini Kyriazi, Myropi Kypri, Olga Skerleti
The video works, animations, films and documentaries presented were produced as part of the following courses:
History, Theory & Practice of Documentary (Teaching Professor: Maria Chalkou)
History of Cinema (Teaching Professor: Maria Chalkou)
Dialogic Interventions in Public Space (Teaching Professor: Angelos Floros)
Live Visuals (Teaching Professor: Thomas Vallianatos)
History, Theory & Practice of Documentary
Screening of short documentaries from the course “History, Theory and Practice of Documentary”. Combining observation, mini interviews and poetic intent, the camera focuses on simple, everyday topics: Our favourite people, the art of crafting, the city and the farmer’s market, the dreams and concerns of young people, the countryside and nature, remembrance, history and the past.
Works screened
Eirini Denegri: «The portrait of Karolos»
Fotios Pagkalos: «Anna»
Vasoula Grammatopoulou: «Myrto»
Katerina Kiaffa: «Portrait»
Tatiani Veligratli: «where?»
Raphael Varvaresos: «Between the benches»
Alexandra Iliadou: «Kleio and Kostas»
Myropi Kypri: «My grandfather's hobby»
Foteini Feizi - Tsatsou: «The eclipse of an art»
Olga Skerleti: «Dreams on Hold»
Eirini Denegri: «This is the dream»
Nikoleta Georgantza: «PERI ERGON»
Anna Antampoufi Doumou: «majkfa zemna , motherly earth»
Aimilia Chatzi: «The Suitcase»
Dimitra Kamzela: «My grandma - Areti»
Eleftheria Svoliantopoulou: «Yayá»
Katerina Kiaffa: «A smoke»
Fotis Stamatakis: «Parallel Search»
Kassandra Thoma: «Diakonaroudia»
Marina Politi: «The Olive Tree»
History of Cinema
Screenings of short films and animation projects made for the course “ History and Theory of Cinema”. They take inspiration from George Méliès, pioneer of fantasy cinema, the movement of Second Avant-garde, German Expressionism and Soviet Montage. Following, there are individual and graduate projects, made under the supervision of assistant professor Maria Chalkou.The short films and documentaries experiment with form and storytelling, exploring themes of sports’ fans’ violence, experiences of the urban space, the return home for Christmas, and the history of trauma from the Turkish occupation of Cyprus. The program ends with a video essay about the movie “Three Colors: Blue” by Krzysztof Kieślowski.
Works screened
Ioanna Kreeb: «Memoriam Lunae»
Kassandra Thoma: «Destiny's Terebinth»
Zanna Sakka: «Sleep brings no joy to me»
Chryssa Platsatoura & Emmanouil Giannetakis: «Friedrichs Nachtschrecken»
Aris Makridi: «Aquarium»
Andreas Lazidis: «The Cycle of Violence»
Anastasia Brika: «Blurry»
Stratis Alvanos: «Winter returns»
Ioannis Panayi: «Dead Zone»
Katerina Kiaffa: «Video Essay: 5 aspects of mise en scène in the film Three Colors: Blue by Krzysztof Kieślowski»
Dialogic Interventions in Public Space
The course "Dialogical Interventions in Public Space" of the Master's Program in "Digital Forms of Art" at the Ionian University presents the audiovisual works of the students, the result of an educational process that explores the relationship between private and public space and life.
Through the sections "Reading" and "Writing," the participants mapped human behavior in public space and created autobiographical videos that connect personal memories with the city. The exhibition highlights the narratives of the urban landscape through the coexistence of image, sound, and text.
The "Reading" section focused on mapping and understanding human behavior and the heterogeneous elements of the urban environment. The theoretical framework was based on Michel Foucault's "Heterotopias," examining the principles that define heterotopias of crisis and deviation. The students were tasked with creating an audiovisual work composed of a combination of photographs and sound recordings, highlighting the significance of the public space as a living entity.
In the "Writing" section, the participants explored the anthropogeographical dimension of public space through the lens of childhood and adolescence. Initially, they created a psychogeographical map of the place where they grew up, mapping their memories and experiences. They then proceeded to write a personal text, which served as the primary narrative element of their audiovisual composition.
Participating works:
• Blind steps, Christodoulos Cheilakeas
• Always to 'os’, Markella Panteli
• My town, Jim Pourikas
• A piece of the world, Adelajda Zaimi
• My home, you, Valeria Mirzac
Course instructor: Angelos Floros
Live Visuals
Presentations of students' works carried out during the course of "Live Visuals". The course analyzes ways of producing audiovisual artistic works that, in their performance, are based on algorithmic processing in real time. The aim of the course is to understand and create artistic works and applications that are based on the interaction of sound with live digital images.
Works by:
https://avarts.ionio.gr/festival/2025/en/artworks/1844/
Fotini Exarchu
Vasilios Vrohidis
Antonis Buluguris
Anna Adampufi Dumu
Adamantia Glovanu
Fotios Pagalos
Dimitrios Marios Giannopulos
GKLANTOUN HLADUN OLEXANTR OLEKSANDR
