Dry stone walls

Information:

Director: Kostas Nicolaou, Eleni Passa
Production: Eleni Passa
Music : Kostas Nicolaou
Country of Production: Greece
Duration: 9
Language: Greek
Subtitles: English

Summary:

The face of the story seeks the inconspicuous harmony even in the stones of the game of his childhood. Back then, victory was the goal and the sounds disharmonious. He discovers that the same stones give birth to music and how a dry stone wall can be built with them. Art, not victory.

Director

Kostas Nicolaou

Kostas Nicolaou comes from Thesprotia, Epirus. He studied photography at the workshop of D. Chliveros (1981-1982) and film at the Stavrakos and Hatzikos schools (1982-1985). Since 2008 he has been collaborating with Eleni Passa (acrobats-acrobates.gr) in the presentation of works where visual compositions (installations, photographs, moving image) are in dialogue with a theatrical event, in which he has written the music and plays guitar live. Since 2016 he is a member of the Curator of Arts of Greece. Also since 2019 he presents with the group ACROBATS short films in film festivals.

Eleni Passa

Eleni Passa was born in Athens, grew up in Thessaloniki and lives in Athens. He graduated from the School of Philosophy of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She studied theater at "Paraga" (Thessaloniki) of S. Amanatidis and in "Periaktos" (Athens) by V. Ritsou. She worked as an actor until 2005 in classical and contemporary dramaturgy. Since 2008 he has been collaborating with the visual artist K. Nicolaou (acrobats-acrobates.gr) pushing the boundaries of the actress by directing and writing.

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