For my creative project, “Fairy Tale or Reality?”, I decided to focus on the significant issue of animal testing in the make-up and beauty industry. The medium I decided to use is a video, which is a short-documentary synthesized by short-cuts from TikTok videos, a campaign from YouTube, Bright Eyes: End Cosmetics Testing on Animals (Lush, 2013), Voiceovers that I recorded as well as an interesting “interview” video of my friends on campus.
My project sheds a light on the brutality and destruction of active war scenes. The aim of the project is to bring attention to the unknown and forgotten wars that are still ongoing. This project aims to bridge my major (international relations) with environmental science, specifically the SDGs. In order to bridge the gap, the project informs on the SDG 16 (peace, justice and institutions). Through this project, I hope to move and motivate people in order to advocate for change.
Throughout the course, I had the chance to explore environmental studies and sustainability, focusing particularly on climate change. This led me to create a seven-minute video on the Social Dimension of Climate Crisis, exploring climate migration, food insecurity, increased inequalities, health issues, and economic impacts. Each topic is linked to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), illustrating their severity through examples like Tuvalu's climate-induced migration and the toll on rural livelihoods. The video highlights the need for collective action, urging viewers to realize the breadth of climate crisis's consequences and the urgency for global change.
“Sterile Rot” dissects the internalized and external sexualization of the female body through the lens of the medical gaze. Through a blend of paintings and video the work confronts the uncomfortable romanticization of the female body in pain, in compromising positions, its leakage, raw form juxtaposed to the concreteness and sterility of medical equipment. The body emerges not merely as a vessel of expression, but as a tool itself, challenging viewers to confront the complexities of power dynamics and the commodification of female pain in contemporary society.
The aim of this project is to showcase the city of Athens as a workplace. More specifically, I filmed a short movie that follows a motorcycle delivery driver through the southern and central suburbs of Athens, during a workday. I intend to provide a unique perspective of the Greek capital, shared among the individuals that navigate it in their effort to secure their subsistence.
The project is a video of interviews conducted on and off campus. The interviews explore different attitudes and beliefs about poverty and the conditions the poor live in. All individuals in the video answer the same set of questions and the audience is able to compare how socioeconomic status, age, and their variables effect ones opinion on poverty.
Ideology as a form of enslavement. A means to conceal the truth about society and the system. Brutal scenes of the meat industry as a depiction of the truth that lies behind a distorted, ideological lens.
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In this short animated film, I explore how modern women might find pieces of their everyday life reflected in the story of Antigone, thus becoming an Antigone themselves. I wanted to highlight how carving the path you want to follow is not always easy and dilemmas often come up between what one “has” to do and what they actually want. In that case, the mere act of self-determination can sometimes be rebellious.
“Purity in Symbols” is a video installation that consists of a 3-minute video art projection on three wire sculptures that are hanging from the ceiling. The sculptures ideally should spin around during the projection. The project discuses truth and lies with shots of nature representing the truth and shots of an acting face representing lies. The sculptures are inspired from nature fantasy creatures.
