Scenic Design for the opening ceremony of the Cyprus Film Days International Festival 2023.
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Every time the camera starts rolling, time is expanding, paradoxically multiplying, while moving forward.
Upon every new ‘take’, it moves on, it repeats itself, gitching, expanding.
We are multiplying the present moment in gigabytes, frames, sound files, photons, fires, lightnings, lights, camera, action.
We arrange cinematic time in cuts, jump cuts, cut-aways, cross fades, cracks in space and time.
Again and again, we create—out of nothing—illusions and entries in our collective diary, alternating images synced with sound.
Both in front of and behind the screen.
We are the film itself.
We are the eternal search for things in places where nothing really exists.
Every year, we get together to see the content and our image in every ‘cut’, to listen to our silence in every pause, to watch ourselves and to imagine what we will be watching in the future.
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Welcome speech excerpt.
Presented on Apr 21st 2023 at Rialto Theatre, Limassol [CY].