COMPOSITION: Snakes for her 18
COMPOSITION: Snakes for her 17
COMPOSITION: Snakes for her 16
COMPOSITION: Snakes for her 14
COMPOSITION: Snakes for her 15
COMPOSITION: Snakes for her 0
COMPOSITION: Snakes for her 1
COMPOSITION: Snakes for her 2
COMPOSITION: Snakes for her 3
COMPOSITION: Snakes for her 4
COMPOSITION: Snakes for her 5
COMPOSITION: Snakes for her 6
COMPOSITION: Snakes for her 7
COMPOSITION: Snakes for her 8
COMPOSITION: Snakes for her 9
COMPOSITION: Snakes for her 11
COMPOSITION: Snakes for her 12
COMPOSITION: Snakes for her 13
COMPOSITION: Snakes for her 10

Short film / Duration: 10 min

Five bodies in composition, create ever changing microcosms: striving to find meaning amidst their shared reality (-ies) when really it is a fluid sequence of narratives bearing no catharsis.
Like in her dream, everything is fulfilled in itself. Interrupted. The bodies are carriers and generators of these microcosms. They live, mature and decay in their own artificial conditions, questioning their very existence.

“...The other night I woke up into another dream. I am in a large black square box. Inside it I encoun- ter a woman and two men. They are trying to wrap their hands around her neck and asphyxiate her. I see something move on her head. Do you know what it was? Snakes. Her hair turned into snakes. The angrier she got, the anger grew the snakes.”

P.S.: Composition was initially materialized as a theatre dance performance. This film is another di- mension of the piece. Composition for six bodies was performed five times in July 2020 in Athens at the industrial space of Amaxostasio, in the context of Papagou Festival and at the archaeological space of Plato’s Academia. It was filmed in the creative space of the company in August 2020.

 

AWARDS

(Official Selection Screen Dance International 2022/ Official Selection Dance Camera West/ Official Selection at Dance Camera Pandemia, Istanbul/ Official selection at Cinedanza Festival / Official Selection at Thessaloniki Cinedance International/ Best experimental film at Berlin Indie Film Festival / Official Selection at Los Angeles Experimental,Dance & Music festival / Finalist at Lonely Wolf: London International Film Festival /Official Selection at enCore: Dance on Film/ Official Selection at Athens Video Dance Project.)

 

Credits

Direction/Choreography:
Antonia Economou

Cinematography:
John Nelson Eskioglou

Edit:
Georgis Grigorakis

Original music/Sound design:
Giorgos Kravvaritis

Script:
Antonia Economou

On camera:
Xenia Tabourlou
Pavlos Lykoudis
Xenia Stathouli
Orestis Alexiadis
Antonia Economou

Assistant choreographer/director and Set manager:
Xenia Tabourlou

Assistant camera:
Filippos Zamidis

Production assistant:
Aggelos Prevezianos

Architectural/linear plans of settings:
Nikola Kexribari

Drawings and sketches of settings and bodies:
Zoe Kravvariti

Poster Design:
Zoe Kravvariti

Rehearsal Space and film location:
Project 8

Text curatorial advisor/Communication manager:
Electra Karatza