Vardo, the multi-award-winning short film by Kostas Kaloudiotis, unfolds in a desolate location, inside a caravan, under the relentless Balkan sun. Through imagery and silence, the film narrates an unpredictable relationship in a poetic tale about the unexpected meeting of two worlds.
Thanasis Epitedios, a PhD candidate at the Department of Audio and Visual Arts, was responsible for Sound Design, Foley, and Mixing. In addition to recorded material, the soundscapes were created using algorithmic sound models of insects, enriching the pre-recorded audio. The research objective of this application was to study the acceptance of the modeled sounds produced as part of his doctoral dissertation and to integrate them into a cohesive artistic work.
Director / Director of Photography / Editor: Kostas Kaloudiotis
Cast: Eri Marioglou, Kostas Kaloudiotis, Nikos Daskalopoulos, Giorgos Sfyridis
Production Design / Art Direction: Vicky Katsika
Sound Design / Foley / Mixing: Thanasis Epitedios
Composer: Yiannis Makkas
Camera: Ioanna Kaloudioti
Production Assistant: Nikos Manasis
Kostas Kaloudiotis was born in Athens in 1987. He graduated from the National Theatre of Northern Greece and has since worked as an actor in theatre and cinema. In parallel, he works as an animation artist. Thanasis Epitideios is a graduate of the Department of Sound and Musical Instrument Technology (now Department of Ethnomusicology) at the Ionian University and holds a Master's degree in "Sound Arts and Audio Technologies." During his studies, he developed an algorithm for creating real-time soundscapes using Pure Data.
Since 2020, he has collaborated with the Ionian University, teaching courses such as "Electronic Music" and "Sound Environments." From 2021 to 2023, he worked as a sound and electronics technician in the HAL project, and since 2012, he has been involved in the department’s annual Sound Festival.
He has been an active member of HELMCA since 2009. He worked on the Kea Municipality Fairy Tale Festival and participated in the 2023 performance Mystery91_Magnetic Dance at the Eleusis Festival. His work Liquid Dreaming was selected by HELMCA and presented at MusicAcoustica Hangzhou in 2023. Since February 2023, he has been pursuing a PhD on sound mimicry and algorithmic sound synthesis.
