Film/Video 

Becoming Cybersexual 

Experimental Essay Film 
Duration: 44.40


An experimental essay film about cybersex and the early Greek internet, composed entirely of found and digitally generated material. The film unfolds on and around the computer screen, tracing an autheoretical account of teenage mediated desires through chatrooms, pop-ups, and low-res archives. Becoming Cybersexual blends glitch aesthetics, media archaeology, and feminist autotheory to explore how intimacy is shaped by technological dissonance.

Sound Design and Music Compisition by Yiannis Lefas



Image, Church, Island (in progress)

Experimental Essay Film 

Filmed on a small Greek island that has become a religious pilgrimage of Virgin Mary, this work-in-progress investigates layered histories of sacredness, disappearance, and feminine presence. Reflecting on my family’s heritage in the island, the essay film is thinking about virtuality through the holy image of the Virgin Mary and how it redefined the identity the island as a site for “holiness”. The project reflects on how sites become mythologized through religious and cultural mediation.
Performance by Pavlina Ploumpidi
Sound Design by Yiannis Lefas.



My grandmother and the eating disorder (2021)

Essay film assembled by a collage made out of reappropriated images.

Won The Film and Video Poetry Society Award,
In the 2nd Annual Small File Media Festival at Simon Fraser University, Curated by Laura Marks, August 10-20,Vancouver, Canada

Duration: 1:36




The law of translation (2020)

3-screen digital video. 

Duration: 5.33


The 3-screen film  is an attempt to question aesthetically and visually issues of translation, language, identity and the construction of self. In a sense this work, becomes a common place where two translations occur, a translation from English to Greek as well as a translation from the physical languages to algorithms, from real life to code and software. The project is trying to explore how an in-between subjectivity is being formed and deformed through language and what is being lost in translations. By making use of subtitles, text and audio fragments in both Greek and English there is a playful intention to disorient and confuse the viewer, trying to transcend the experience of feeling trapped between two languages .



Uber Cumulation (2021)

Short essay film. 
Duration: 3.00



“Uber Cumulation” is a short film about random encounter initiated by smartphone applications and algorithms. It explores a very real and human shared experience between me and a Syrian driver and how algorithmic acts
can be transformed into personal and real experiences.
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How do you spend your time in the quarantine? (2020)

Essay film
Duration: 5:12



This is a short film using still images and video narrating the experience of taking walks during the quarantine in American suburbia.

Exhbibited in In These Uncertain Times, January 2021- May 20201, MAH (Museum of Art and History), Santa Cruz, United States

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In Nisyros (2022)

An Instagram story poem made out of Instagram stories
Duration: 00:39




An exercise in translation and form this project is a poem translated from Greek to English to a graph of sound to a graph of pictograms and then transformed into an Instagram story poem made out of an archive of Instagram stories and the re-circulated on Instagram as an Instagram story.


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The Loneliness of Plastic (2019)

Short film. 
Duration: 5.23


Short film focusing on silence and materialities at the Santa Cruz boardwalk trying to encompass the loneliness and emptiness of the space when the occupiers are gone and when there is no one there to entertain anymore. How does this bizarre plastic architecture get occupied by other inhabitants and nature when it is deprived from the noise and cheerfulness of it’s main use



Eulogy to a digital lover (2017)

Short film. 
Duration: 5.23


Eulogy to a digital lover, is a video piece about the networks of falling in love and the communications that dominate today’s intimate relationships.  Inspired by my own interactions with strangers on dating apps like OkCupid and Tinder, this piece is a eulogy to all the digital lovers that passed through my profiles regardless of the duration of our interactions. The piece encompasses a critique of masculinity and gender relationships, in contemporary mediascapes.




Homo-extedus (2018)


Digital essay film
Duration: 1.29 


My film titled Homo-Extendus is an attempt to look at how people behave in archaeological spaces, trace those choreographies and movements that have been enabled with the emergence of the smartphone. The camera was placed in different spots across a very touristic route that most tourists follow when visiting Athens. I tried to record movements just like a documentary film-maker would record wild animals in the jungle, without interfering.





The Disappointment of Arrival (2016)

Film. Shot on Samsung Galaxy J3 camera.
Duration: 8.34


Disappointment of arrival is a film essay about the experience of arriving in the United States as an architect, as a student and as a Greek. It expresses the disappointment of arrival in New York and the United States, after being the consumer of all those highly mediated images. The shots were all taken through my cheap phone that has a really bad camera. The idea is that the urban situation and movement should not be disturbed. The camera is becoming an eye in the city, my own personal eye in different parts of the New York, capturing environments and movements.