The movie enterprises, in a non narrative manner - with somatic and musical expression as alternative logos - to sketch out the fourfold "desire, action, satisfaction, negation".
Director's note
In my movie-statement for the newly established cinema:
The human body overrides it’s limits of plasticity.
Human expression coacts with it’s transcendental reflection, the cinematographic eye.
The rigid space is bent, liquefied and borne along.
Without the use of filters-simulations of optical effects.
As a sequence of 0 and 1, with my edits as mathematical operations.
Music composes the set, negating time as convention.
I just synopsized my operands
(free choreography / performing expression,
cinematographer / virtual co-performer,
innate utilization of digital medium,
non-temporal / atonal composition).
I am self-characterized as an experimentalist.
Not necessarily as a moral stance, but as a RESULT.
Technical features
year of production: 2007
duration: 49'
language: greek
color: black & white
aspect ratio: 16:9 anamorphic
format: miniDV
Credits
The movie is based on the book of Alexandr Kozev “Introduction to Hegel’s reading ” and on Caravaggio’s painting “The lizzard”
ruthless performers: Tasos Babatzias, Georgia Tourmouzi
narration: Jacqueline Kirby
cameras: Ioannis Protonotarios, Giorgos Kietzis
art direction, settings, intertitle paintings: Georgia Tourmouzi
choreographies: Tasos Babatzias
music: Epavlis Pavlakis
compositions: Tears of garden #2, Alexia, So deep, Muslim, Installation, Last weekdirection, editing & production: Ioannis Protonotarios © 2007
performed live in front of audience with touch and motion detectors
Thanks to
Dimitris and all the friends from “Dili Dili”,
Adonis for the constant help and support,
the experimental dance group “.. ......” (they wish to remain anonymous) for their age-long research (part of which has been used here),
friends from Digital Image Processing Lab of DUTH for the papers on view morphing,
Leles and Bolis for their music that we didn’t use,
Tsioumas for the texts,
Photographer because without him none of this would have been done,
Dionysis because even though he is not the one to blame he is the one that pays,
and all the people who let us experiment on them.
Watch the trailer: