Cyprus Film Days International Festival Opening Ceremony: What now / Now what, 2023
“Every time the camera starts rolling, time expands, paradoxically multiplying, while moving forward.
Upon every new ‘take’, it moves on, it repeats itself, glitching, expanding.
We multiply the present moment in gigabytes, frames, sound files, photons, fires, lightnings, lights, camera, action.
We arrange cinematic time in cuts, jump cuts, cut-aways, crossfades, 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.”
Concept, written and directed by Dimitris Chimonas
Production coordination: Lex Gregoriou
Scenic design: Demetris Shammas
Installation & costume design: Orestis Lazouras
Lighting design: Karolina Spyrou
Music & sound composition: Maria Spivak, Emiddio Vasquez
Cinematography & editing: Nikolas Karatzas
Props: Stephani Mourouzi
Drone operator: Charis Varelias
Performers: Elena Kallinikou, Belinda Papavassiliou, Eva Papavassiliou, Chryso Cosma, Panayiotis Pavlides, Stephani Mourouzi, Andreas Patsias, Androula Kafa
Presented on Apr 21st 2023 at Rialto Theatre, Limassol, CY.