Film, Video and New Media Graduate Students



Antonia Foufa, 1st year MFA Student 2005 - present
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About:
I am interested in learning how an idea either unfocused as yet or inspired by an association, can be developed into a film. I am also interested in familiarizing myself with the process during which stimuli, reflections, experiences, sentiments are rendered by the picture and the sound, exploring alternative points for the expression of the core: how colours, forms, lines, shades, details of movement and space emerge from a sound environment constituted from silence, fractions of sounds, rhythms, melodies or any other sound element natural or artificial or the other way round.

I select to express situations where the hero, his action, and the environment that acts upon him or vice versa are represented through their fragments: an audiovisual game, that is to say, where the dialogue and the narration are absent. The spectator should therefore discover the rules of meaning while watching. In other words, the spectator is invited to examine thoroughly erratic meanings or associations of ideas by categorizing them and decoding them.

The classic “hero” of the narrative films is absent and thus the spectator becomes a hero, who becomes reconciled with himself, instead of being identified with the “hero”, through images, which render spaces of dreams, fantasies and fears.
It is an excessively subjective experience which constitutes a provocative communication between the artist and the spectator: it aims at awakening his senses and thus at re-defining “reality” and locating another dimension of space and time.

The classic role, that is to say an individual acting right or wrong, determined by social and moral conventions, is absent. I would like to put the emphasis on the communication between the artist and each individual as far as the inner existential search (for example the haunted childhood, parting…) is concerned.

CV summary
Education:
2005-Present. The School of the Art Institute of Chicago,USA.
MFA. Film, Video, New Media. Merit Scholarship.
2003/2004. European Film College, Denmark. Diploma. Video Production.
1996/2002. University of Patras, School of Humanist and Social Studies, Greece.
BA. Theatre Studies.

Videography:
2005. Experimental Video. Et cetera...
A journey through out the night. Video 3'.
2004. Fiction. Niji.
Four different human stories are united after an accident. Video 4'.
2004. Video Art. In Memory.
The mourning of a loss. Video 4'.
2004. Fiction-Documentary. ...can I live through you?
The relation between a stalker and the camera. Video 4,5'.
2003. Documentary. DOEPOMISSI.
A Russian immigrant guards a bankrupt factory in Greece. Video 4,5'.
2002. Animation. Where does the cat go?
The escape of a cat from her domestic life. Video 5'.