VIDEO ART. CONCEPT /DIRECTION
Sealed faithful halls
[ CYPRUS, 2020 ] [ dur. 3min ]
VIDEO POETRY
Sealed faithful halls
An unused wing of the hospital was sealed off,
—covered with a waterproof coat and plaster.
A passage leading to a specimen, erased.
An account beyond doubt.
A copy of an alter ego that doesn’t exist anymore.
I lived and died a firm loyalist, a devoted worker.
Through urban dreams and failures,
I created a portrait of observed facts;
—a space for public gatherings and entertainment.
No more...
I bit my head off and fed it to the dogs.
Truth implies steadiness, sincerity, and reliability...
Goodnight Rothko.
[ 2021 ] Official selection Rencontres International Paris/Berlin, Louvre Auditorium Paris, France
[ 2021 ] Official selection 9th International Video Poetry Festival, Athens, Greece
[ 2020 ] Official selection Moving Poems - The best poetry videos on the web
[ 2020 ] Official selection AGITATE:21C - Women filmmakers
Sealed Faithful Halls —a poem turned to an experimental film— refers to a series of videos that have been recorded in different locations, through a period of years, either as part of art projects —but were never used— or as a record of situations, feelings and moments in time, in order to be used for future art projects. This archival material, became the motivation of a video art, made during the pandemic of 2020, when movement was restricted and confinement was imposed; therefore no video was able to be recorded.
Drawing inspiration from the rectangular forms of expressionist painter Mark Rothko, a juxtaposition of moving images and sounds was created, an illusion of situations, where real spaces are transformed into imaginary ones.
The video was selected as on the fifty short films for the “50 Shorts VS Covid-19” a project funded by the Cyprus Deputy Ministry of Culture.