the day that left (2002)

Tokyo Tonight (2003)

A little film (2005)

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Tokyo Tonight (2003) 4 mins 30 secs (Digital Video)

Tokyo Tonight is the second part of a trilogy of films that examine how the digital scrolling of images affects perception and narrative. The film takes as its starting point the image of a train passing in front of a static camera. This is juxtaposed to a layered soundtrack of ambient sounds and a contemplative voice-over of three characters speaking in different languages. Their reflections move our attention from the inside of the train to the image of looking at it passing by. The film explores how one image can lead us to a myriad little narratives and how sound can lead us to other images.

Direction, Production, Camera, Editing and Sound - Aikaterini Gegisian

Courtesy of Kalfayan Galleries Athens-Thessaloniki

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A little film (2005) 5 mins (Digital Video)

A little film is divided in three parts, each composed by a single shot of a landscape that comes slowly into focus. The parts are respectively titled: for happiness and loss, for love and allusion, for remembering and forgetting.The film explores the idea of a crescendo between image and sound - image and sound moving in and out of each other. A female character reflects on the landscape and wonders between the actual and the remembered, the personal and the imaginary. The film is a comment on the passage of time and the way framing, perspective and vision constructs both space and our way of inhabiting it. The focussing of image and sound becomes a metaphor alluding to the very process of an image’s creation.

Direction, Production, Camera, Editing and Sound - Aikaterini Gegisian

Courtesy of Kalfayan Galleries Athens-Thessaloniki

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Storyboards from Passengers

Passengers (2007) 13 mins 37 secs (Digital Video)

Passengers was filmed in Nicopolis a newly build shantytown area in city of Thessaloniki, Greece and focuses on an immigrant community of Greek-Pontiac dissent (originally from the Black Sea Coast of Turkey) that came to the city from Kazakhstan in the beginning of the nineties.

The film begins with a static view of the area from above that follows a woman walking in the distance and is juxtaposed with a personal dreamy narration. It then concentrates on the stories narrated by the community about their experiences of exile within the Soviet Union, about coming to Greece and the difficulties they faced trying to set up a new life. The stories are told as a voice-over juxtaposed over tracking shots of deserted derelict trains and of their neighbourhood streets.

The film uses documentary modes but it does not try to identify, classify, indexify or justify the existence and the spaces created by the community. It actually takes a lyrical reflexive tone that attempts to reveal the position of the maker and the impossibility of documenting all aspects of a perceived reality. The image is what grounds us to a specific reality while the fragmented voice over populates the spaces and tries to deny its role as an explanation of images.

The film was produced in the International Workshop for Young Artists (May 2007) a Parallel Program of the 1st Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art: “Hetrotopias”.

Funded by Municipality of Thermi, 1st Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art and Watershed Media Centre, Bristol.

Direction and Editing: Aikaterini Gegisian
Creative Advisor: Rowan Geddis
Production Manager: Yiorgos Mamoglou
Production Assistant: Stauvros Doudouris
Researchers: Sofia Dimitriadou, Anna Tepetidou

Courtesy of Kalfayan Galleries Athens-Thessaloniki

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Video Stills from 'The City / Game 1'

'The City / Game 1' (2007) 2 mins (Digital Video)

The emblematic centre of Athens, Monastiraki, becomes the terrain for the acting out of a somehow sinister childish game – the collection of cigarettes butts from the dirty pavements. As the lonely performer arranges the butts on the floor seemingly unaware of the actual city surrounding her, the melancholic narration of the poem ‘City’ by C.P. Cavafy points to another internal city, to the conflicts within. The butts on the floor are both traces of our futile interventions and of the boarders we create. Poem sourced from the book C.P. Cavafy ‘154 Poems’ translated by Evangelos Sachperoglou, Athens, 2003.

Direction, Production, Camera, Editing and Sound - Aikaterini Gegisian

Commissioned for Karaoke Poetry Bar presented by Intothepill.net with the support of the 1st Biennale of Athens, November 2007

Courtesy of Kalfayan Galleries Athens-Thessaloniki

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A Ray of Sunshine (2008) 1 mins (Digital Video)

A Ray of Sunshine is based on footage shot in the area of Lake Sevan in Armenia around a derelict hotel that was abandoned when the Soviet Union collapsed.  Starting from an almost black screen, the image slowly opens up to reveal an ambiguous landscape, while the sound transports us to a different perceptual space. Using colour and sound, the work questions the realities of the recorded image in an attempt to inscribe the personal in a continuously changing landscape.

Direction, Production, Camera, Editing and Sound - Aikaterini Gegisian

Courtesy of Kalfayan Galleries Athens-Thessaloniki


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