https://www.kineticat.co.uk Katerina Athanasopoulou Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:13:27 +0000 https://www.kineticat.co.uk en https://www.kineticat.co.uk/Homepage Sat, 14 Mar 2020 12:00:41 +0000 Katerina Athanasopoulou https://www.kineticat.co.uk/Homepage https://www.kineticat.co.uk/The-distance-between-the-staircase-and-the-sky Fri, 17 Nov 2023 21:29:46 +0000 Katerina Athanasopoulou https://www.kineticat.co.uk/The-distance-between-the-staircase-and-the-sky The distance between the staircase and the sky2022 &nbsp; &nbsp; 7’ stereo The film’s imagery is created through a process combining walking, performance, and photogrammetry, made on-foot and by-hand. The spoken poem that runs through the film derived from an AR exchange between an animator and a poet: a postcard sent from a tropical holiday, as imagined during a walk to work. ‘The distance between the staircase and the sky’ is a way to evoke a sense of place from walking, so that a short film may become a space of meaningful connections for those who attend it. Synopsis: Ascending a staircase in the centre of Athens makes room for reflection on everyday life, as both otherworldly and mundane. On a planet lit by neon and on a beach powered by cicadas, we twirl into a void measured by walking - one step at a time. Credits:A film by Katerina AthanasopoulouPoem: Sotiris KoutsoukosVoice: Emma SwinnScore: Savvas Metaxas One-minute trailer Awards:Honourable mention, Midwest Video Poetry Fest, Madison, Wisconsin, USA. October 2023. Screenings: Window Display / Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin. January-February 2023. Tampere Film Festival, Finland. March 2023. Los Angeles Greek Film Festival, USA. June 2023. Video Miden, Kalamata, Greece. July 2023. Bolton Film Festival, Bolton, UK. September 2023. Animasyros Festival, Syros, Greece. September 2023. ‘The distance between the staircase and the sky’ (2022) and ‘Polykatoikia:Peripatos’ (2022) were screened at the 3D3 Legacy Exhibition Digital Flow/s: interdisciplinary digital arts and humanities practice-based research, at&nbsp;Sparks, Bristol. September 2023. Zebra Poetry Film Festival, Berlin. October 2023. Aotearoa Poetry Film Festival, Wellington, New Zealand. November 2023. London Short Film Festival, London. January 2024. Internationl Poetry Film Festival, Los Angeles, April 2024. FIG Festival, Sofia, Bulgaria, part of Girls in Film special screening, June 2024. BRIT SHORTS, Berlin, January 2025 The film was created as part of my doctoral research, and you can find more information here https://www.kineticat.co.uk/Apodemy Mon, 16 Mar 2020 16:06:34 +0000 Katerina Athanasopoulou https://www.kineticat.co.uk/Apodemy A flock of birds circles and moves a cage vehicle, seeking escape from a city half finished and abandoned, with roads interrupted by fragments of fallen statues. Apodemy2012 Apodemy from Katerina Athanasopoulou on Vimeo.Commissioned by The Onassis Cultural Center on the theme of Emigration for Visual Dialogues 2012Plato likens the human soul with a cage, where knowledge is birds flying. We’re born with the cage empty and, as we grow, we collect birds and they go in the cage for future use. When we need to access knowledge we put our hand in the cage, hunt for a bird – and sometimes catch the wrong one.Ornithology uses the term “Zugunruhe” to describe the turbulent behaviour of birds before they migrate, whether free or caged.These two images, birds inhabiting the human soul and the distress of the migrating bird became the starting points for this film, commissioned on the theme of Emigration.A flock of birds circles and moves a cage vehicle, seeking escape from a city half finished and abandoned, with roads interrupted by fragments of fallen statues. Those hands are simultaneously the pursuit of knowledge and also the heroes/leaders of the past that we have rejected but are still haunting us.In a time when Europe seems to be imploding, this is my portrait of Athens. Credits A film by Katerina Athanasopoulou Original Music by Jon Opstad Violin: Claire Wheeler Commisioned by the Onassis Cultural Center for Visual Dialogues 2012 AwardsWinner of the Lumen Prize 2013 Finalist, Best Commissioned Animation, British Animation Awards 2014Best Animation, London Greek Film Festival, October 2013Special Mention for a Greek Film, Animasyros International Festival, Greece, September 2013Nominated for the Peer Raben Music Award at SoundTrack_Cologne 10, Germany 2013ScreeningsFilmessay at Archine, Brazil, 2016Filmessay/E.V.A at Paris College of Art, France, 2016E.V.A (Experimental Video Architecture), Venice Architecture Biennale, 2016 Special Screening, Strangloscope Video Art Festival, Brazil, December 2014Lumen Show at the Onassis Cultural Center, Athens, November 2014Festival Miden, Greece, July 2014The Queen of Hungary, Landscape: Dislocation /Space / Place, UK, May 2014.Public Choice Awards Screening, British Animation Awards, BFI, February 2014London Short Film Festival, January 2014Winter Shuffle, London, December 2013Aesthetica Short Film Festival, York, November 2013Underwire Festival, London, November 2013KLIK! Amsterdam Animation Festival, Holland, November 2013Shnit International Short film festival, Switzerland, October 2013Belo Horizonte International Film Festival, Brazil, September 2013Animasyros Festival, Greece, September 2013The Queen of Hungary, Landscape: Dislocation /Space / Place, UK, Spring 2014.Femina Film Festival, Brazil, July 2013Athens Video Art Festival, Athens, June 2013Hong Kong Art Fair, Animation Club Screening, May 2013MAshRome Film Fest, Rome, May 201360th Belgrade Documentary and Short Film Festival, Serbia, April 2013Skepto International Film Festival, Sardinia, April 2013Holland Animation Festival, Utrecht, March 2013Flatpack Festival, Birmingham Museum &amp; Gallery, UK, March 2013Visual Dialogues (Installation), Plato's Academy Park, December 2012 - February 2013 https://www.kineticat.co.uk/WAVES Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:13:27 +0000 Katerina Athanasopoulou https://www.kineticat.co.uk/WAVES WAVES 2024 &nbsp; &nbsp; 4’35’ stereo A film by Katerina AthanasopoulouScore: Savvas MetaxasEdit: Ian Clark Synopsis An alien woman responds to a half-forgotten message of interplanetary friendship. A film about communication, and the fingers that stir the digital. Created in response to WE ARE ALL MADE OF STARS, MOMus, Thessaloniki, Dec 2024 - Feb 2025. Curator: Domna Gounari Director’s Statement In 1972, the space probe Pioneer 10 was launched from Cape Canaveral, heading to Jupiter as part of the first reconnaissance of the Solar System. A gold-anodised aluminium plate was attached to it, named ‘Pioneer Plaque’, with an engraving designed by Carl Sagan. It features a naked human couple: a woman stands next to a man raising his hand into a human greeting; next to them is a diagram showing Earth’s position, a pulsar map that forms part of a precious space postcard. What if this ‘wish you were here’ message was indeed heard by Aliens? The film imagines an alien woman waving back, on her own Earth mission. When thinking about the digital, much emphasis is put on code as an intangible power that occludes its manual origins: from ‘digitus’ which is Latin for ‘finger’, the digital has been from the start powered by human gestures - it measures, palpates, and stirs our instruments and our imaginations. In times captured by AI utopias and dystopias, this film is made by (and for) human bodies; my keyboard and mouse are my Animator’s tools that I manipulate with my own digits, and I play my computer like a musical instrument. <img width="3840" height="2160" width_o="3840" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/206d430e6c7159060def79fddad124aa58eacad403a9eeab6f7ddc43d98257f8/WAVES-05.jpg" data-mid="227074251" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/206d430e6c7159060def79fddad124aa58eacad403a9eeab6f7ddc43d98257f8/WAVES-05.jpg" /><img width="3840" height="2160" width_o="3840" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/36ab4b2a8a64da55f36ba5b1d48b2f85d2eab44060a9f6372fc4733d387910e3/WAVES-03.jpg" data-mid="227074249" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/36ab4b2a8a64da55f36ba5b1d48b2f85d2eab44060a9f6372fc4733d387910e3/WAVES-03.jpg" /> <img width="3840" height="2160" width_o="3840" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9e721f52ad1984b42c6c50a6171119efaa8256911e54f7c458140a064d627256/WAVES-02.jpg" data-mid="227074248" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9e721f52ad1984b42c6c50a6171119efaa8256911e54f7c458140a064d627256/WAVES-02.jpg" /> https://www.kineticat.co.uk/Deep-Waters Thu, 24 Sep 2020 21:42:28 +0000 Katerina Athanasopoulou https://www.kineticat.co.uk/Deep-Waters Deep Waters 2020 Site-specific animation installation, three screens and sound. Score by Savvas MetaxasWith thanks to Bill Psarras Primarolia festival in Aigio, Greece, is an annual art festival that celebrates the 19th century boat journeys towards the ports of Europe, carrying Corinthian raisins - Greece’s “black gold”. This year’s theme was ‘Images of a Floating World’ (ukiyo-e), where the mobility and fluidity of everyday life get reinterpreted through the new reality of the 2020 pandemic. Artist’s statement from 2020 In these pandemic days, the journeys that we once took for granted are being tested and rewritten. Having plotted the attic of the exhibition space through the feet of a remote walker, I assembled a photogrammetry model and took my own steps within the digitally transmitted space, which is now virtual but no less real. The installation evokes a new underwater interpretation of the building, and the three screens act as portals into this alternative-yet-familiar space, pierced by a long trailing ribbon drawing its own choreography. The serpentine writing of the digital trail can be seen by the mobile, peripatetic viewer as they perform their own perambulation around the screens, each one revealing a view of the virtual space between them. About the process: With the pandemic lockdown forbidding me to travel to Aigio in person, I was introduced to the building that houses the Primarolia festival through a set of screens: the curator and the artistic director led me via video calls through the old warehouse that once stored raisins, walking from the ground floor up to the attic. This room immediately captivated me, with its wooden and metal roof seeming like an upside-down ship hold. My original plan had been to perform a ‘camera-walk’ which allows me to process an area through a kind of procession, capturing the room in an immersive video, which I later rework into a photogrammetric model. Unable to be there, I passed the digital batton to Bill Psarras, who performed the ‘camera-walk’ for me and then sent me the material through digital transfer, hundreds of frames traveling over the sea - like images of a floating world (ukiyo-e) that the exhibition is named after. The photogrammetric models that I extracted out of the material allowed me to walk the set, in VR and also through my computer screen in London. I reimagined the attic as a sunken ship or a flooded building, with tiny floating debris embodying the multiple travel trajectories that we have somehow left behind, next to the seaweed that has taken over. After exploring the entire photogrammetric attic through my computer screen, I placed within it digital cameras that recorded their view of the animation; the three resulting films were screened in television sets in the real attic in Aigio, positioned where the virtual cameras had been. A red ribbon enters and leaves the space, like Ariadne’s thread defining the room via its own choreography. The score by Savvas Metaxas places the peripatetic viewer of Deep Waters under an atmosphere of intense yet tranquil pressure, underwater, in anticipation of “the great crashing of the waves upon the standing ships” in the words of Embeirikos. <img width="2688" height="1792" width_o="2688" height_o="1792" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8436ee6c2119208728ab4d22e177fb4f6ce180c5e73eb2a604b5a71688da9f72/Deep-Waters-documentation-01.jpg" data-mid="84226669" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8436ee6c2119208728ab4d22e177fb4f6ce180c5e73eb2a604b5a71688da9f72/Deep-Waters-documentation-01.jpg" /><img width="2686" height="1780" width_o="2686" height_o="1780" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4dedd9df04ab8d2e4c979ae8ad698ca2d421629e09602b2c07cf0c892bb69c7e/Deep-Waters-documentation-03.png" data-mid="84226678" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4dedd9df04ab8d2e4c979ae8ad698ca2d421629e09602b2c07cf0c892bb69c7e/Deep-Waters-documentation-03.png" /><img width="2688" height="1792" width_o="2688" height_o="1792" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/162f05cecf428f519256e7ad35a8a5fea9fed91d61973f4828181314156b9097/Deep-Waters-documentation-02.png" data-mid="84226673" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/162f05cecf428f519256e7ad35a8a5fea9fed91d61973f4828181314156b9097/Deep-Waters-documentation-02.png" /> <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/964dc3d5137101adb9059bf2cc71cf5fdc638000542d0a9580e926da7de3e11a/A_Primarolia28_camera_A-7-10m-06429.jpg" data-mid="84225830" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/964dc3d5137101adb9059bf2cc71cf5fdc638000542d0a9580e926da7de3e11a/A_Primarolia28_camera_A-7-10m-06429.jpg" /><img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5158e41fac800a2fc1c6e0c51fe3b0fb2114aac95dcf5771cef18b75cc2a619b/A_Primarolia28_camera_A-7-10m-05922.jpg" data-mid="84225829" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5158e41fac800a2fc1c6e0c51fe3b0fb2114aac95dcf5771cef18b75cc2a619b/A_Primarolia28_camera_A-7-10m-05922.jpg" /><img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/dc555adbcb519584c70e63750b6ca21a7af9d3971384ce791946e13eb92aaed7/A_Primarolia28_camera_A-7-10m-05730.jpg" data-mid="84225828" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/dc555adbcb519584c70e63750b6ca21a7af9d3971384ce791946e13eb92aaed7/A_Primarolia28_camera_A-7-10m-05730.jpg" /> <img width="2048" height="1365" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a7e0a82b1fa5124ffa2c58ff43bda238d05360b767e6ed91605c6a24dbef2287/119450617_598760827483256_4044386436970101852_o.jpg" data-mid="83893860" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a7e0a82b1fa5124ffa2c58ff43bda238d05360b767e6ed91605c6a24dbef2287/119450617_598760827483256_4044386436970101852_o.jpg" /><img width="2048" height="1365" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b6b9c2afec094e63b5a132ed4e7330b333e6ed29e4bf390ca8c5824cf11a8b06/119461191_598761304149875_8394274601476572807_o.jpg" data-mid="83892147" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b6b9c2afec094e63b5a132ed4e7330b333e6ed29e4bf390ca8c5824cf11a8b06/119461191_598761304149875_8394274601476572807_o.jpg" /><img width="2048" height="1365" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f443fce51ef9742d87ebbea8f1164c88f8959fd354dbd1cbbaf6f7a49e1cbb18/119590831_598976937461645_2906382946484094703_o.jpg" data-mid="83893861" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f443fce51ef9742d87ebbea8f1164c88f8959fd354dbd1cbbaf6f7a49e1cbb18/119590831_598976937461645_2906382946484094703_o.jpg" /> <img width="2048" height="1365" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/535186a5bfcb7b64ee5fa06397c185343b6e40ff23736b576f6ac0403d0b7c7a/119486925_598759847483354_1013105188212931093_o.jpg" data-mid="83892148" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/535186a5bfcb7b64ee5fa06397c185343b6e40ff23736b576f6ac0403d0b7c7a/119486925_598759847483354_1013105188212931093_o.jpg" /> https://www.kineticat.co.uk/About-Katerina Sat, 14 Mar 2020 12:00:41 +0000 Katerina Athanasopoulou https://www.kineticat.co.uk/About-Katerina Katerina Athanasopoulou is a Greek artist-researcher living in London who creates animated films for cinema and gallery space. She studied Fine Art at Aristotle University in Greece, and graduated with an MA Animation from the Royal College of Art. Her award-winning films have been shown internationally at film festivals and galleries, including Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, Tampere Film Festival, Thessaloniki Biennale 3, Holland Animation Film Festival, Zebra Poetry Film Festival, and The Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb. She has created films for Channel 4, London College of Fashion, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and she won the Lumen Prize in 2013 with her short film Apodemy. Selected works include: WAVES&nbsp; (2024), a film about communication and the fingers that stir the digital; The distance between the staircase and the sky (2022), a short poetry film that reimagines Athens as a newly-discovered planet;&nbsp;Deep Waters (2020), a site-specific animation installation commissioned by Primarolia Festival,&nbsp;Her Voice (2019), commisioned by AUDINT for their Unsound:Undead show at Arebyte, London;&nbsp;Branches of Life (2016), commissioned by Cast Iron Radio and Recording for the Body Of Songs project, supported by Wellcome Trust and Arts Council England; Apodemy (2012), a short film on Emigration and the Economic Crisis, commissioned by the Onassis Foundation; Engine Angelic (2010) for Animate Projects. Katerina also collaborates with other artists on short films, documentaries and installations. Katerina is a Tutor (Research) within the MA Animation at the Royal College of Art. Prior to this position she taught extensively within University of the Arts London and Westminster University, and has been a guest lecturer at Kingston University, Middlesex University and Goldsmiths. She completed her doctoral research with Plymouth University, on the intersections of documentary, VR, and AR, through the lens of animation. https://www.kineticat.co.uk/VR-AR-Peripatetics Mon, 16 Mar 2020 16:18:35 +0000 Katerina Athanasopoulou https://www.kineticat.co.uk/VR-AR-Peripatetics Doctoral research, completed January 2024Walking away from VR as ‘empathy-machine’: peripatetic animations with 360 photogrammetry Plymouth University and the 3D3 compendiumMy AHRC-funded practice-as-research PhD partakes in an expanded documentary practice that weaves together walking, poetry, immersive technologies, and moving image. Central to my approach is the multifaceted notion of Peripatos &nbsp;̶ &nbsp;as a school of philosophy, a stroll-like walk, and the path where the stroll takes place, manifested both corporeally and as 'playful curiosity'. The thread that interweaves practice and theory has my body-moving in the centre; I call it the ‘camera-walk’: a processional, performative shoot that documents a real place and the bodies that make it, while my hand holds high a camera-on-a-stick shooting 360-video. The resulting spherical video feeds into photogrammetric digital processing, and reassembles into digital 3D models that form the starting ground for still images, a site-specific installation, augmented reality (AR) exchanges, and short animated films. Within the collaborative projects* presented within my thesis, I move away from the colonialist-inspired ideal of ‘walking in someone else’s shoes’, and ‘tread softly’ along the footsteps of my co-walkers. * follow the links to watch the documentation of&nbsp;Deep Waters and a trailer for&nbsp;The distance between the staircase and the sky, and see further below for Polykatoikia: Peripatos. Conference Papers Athanasopoulou, K. (2022) ‘Movement as Animation’s Material’, paper presented at [DCPR]3 - [Design - Creative Practice - Research]3 Conference, Design Museum, London, 25 November.Athanasopoulou, K. (2018) Athanasopoulou, K. (2021) ‘Walking from Physical to Digital within “Deep Waters”’, paper presented at Animation Practice as Research Symposium 2021, Manchester School of Art [online], 21 April. Athanasopoulou, K. (2021) ‘Walking away from VR as empathy-machine: kinaesthetic animations with 360-photogrammetry’, paper presented at Performance.Experience.Presence (PEP), Plymouth University [online], 15 December. Athanasopoulou, K. (2021) ‘Glitching the Virtual’, paper presented at TaPRA Digital Distuptions: Bugs and Glitches in Live Performance [online], 4-5 June. Athanasopoulou, K. (2021) ‘Walking from Physical to Digital within “Deep Waters”’, paper presented at Animation Practice as Research Symposium 2021, Manchester School of Art, [online], 21 April. Athanasopoulou, K. (2019) ‘The Performing Skeleton and the Ghosts of CGI’, paper presented at Performing Animation, Animating Performance, King’s College London, 14 December. Athanasopoulou, K. (2019) ‘A Virtual Walk through Spaces of Healing’, paper presented at Association for Medical Humanities (AMH) Conference 2019: Material Medicine: Objects, and Bodies, Plymouth University, 26-28 June. Athanasopoulou, K. (2018) ‘Virtual Reality as Sculptural Cartography’, paper presented at Performance.Experience.Presence (PEP), Plymouth University, 10 December. Athanasopoulou, K. (2019) ‘The Peripatetics of Virtual Reality’, paper presented at Virtual Realities + Alterities RCA Research Symposium and Manifestation, Royal College of Art, London, 5 May. Athanasopoulou, K. (2018) ‘From procession to processing to process: a VR walkthrough’, paper presented at Performance.Experience.Presence Weekend, Plymouth University, 26-27 October. ‘Towards a Cathartic Unpeeling of the Truth within VR Animated Documentary’, paper presented at Ecstatic Truth III: Making Sense Between Fantasy and Fact, Lusófona University, Lisbon, 8 July. Cheiropoieton ©Katerina Athanasopoulou 2018 <img width="3507" height="2480" width_o="3507" height_o="2480" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/103d08c25be80adbf2ffd5f622176e7ddc09ddddd91c75804aea22499bb6802a/Lisbon-Church-02.jpg" data-mid="84048819" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/103d08c25be80adbf2ffd5f622176e7ddc09ddddd91c75804aea22499bb6802a/Lisbon-Church-02.jpg" /> Varybombi burnt forest ©Katerina Athanasopoulou 2021 <img width="800" height="643" width_o="800" height_o="643" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3036b02bdeccb1334ab66c9fda755e93759d96238717d27a499b509c6cffb556/VIDEO_2291_planet.00_00_17_28.Still001_-cropped.jpg" data-mid="197252154" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/800/i/3036b02bdeccb1334ab66c9fda755e93759d96238717d27a499b509c6cffb556/VIDEO_2291_planet.00_00_17_28.Still001_-cropped.jpg" /> Stills from Polykatoikia:Peripatos ©Katerina Athanasopoulou 2022 <img width="1300" height="732" width_o="1300" height_o="732" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ba1d6a2ec35731f6dc48565b5044c2c09e4368d80e09982dd56fb954074ea68f/Polykatoikia_Peripatos-still-02.jpg" data-mid="197329786" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ba1d6a2ec35731f6dc48565b5044c2c09e4368d80e09982dd56fb954074ea68f/Polykatoikia_Peripatos-still-02.jpg" /> <img width="1500" height="845" width_o="1500" height_o="845" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f6c85f200370945d31c87870c7c2a4a8bb311965c51fd92a7f9f22a0f18db378/Polykatoikia_Peripatos-still-04.jpg" data-mid="197329789" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f6c85f200370945d31c87870c7c2a4a8bb311965c51fd92a7f9f22a0f18db378/Polykatoikia_Peripatos-still-04.jpg" /> <img width="1300" height="732" width_o="1300" height_o="732" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f09a21844f5ebaae3f63fbd0b952f95dcf96026ffefa259bf4bcba51a126bddc/Polykatoikia_Peripatos-still-06.jpg" data-mid="197329728" border="0" alt="Still from Polykatoikia:Peripatos &copy;Katerina Athanasopoulou 2022" data-caption="Still from Polykatoikia:Peripatos ©Katerina Athanasopoulou 2022" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f09a21844f5ebaae3f63fbd0b952f95dcf96026ffefa259bf4bcba51a126bddc/Polykatoikia_Peripatos-still-06.jpg" /> Stills from The Distance between the staircase and the sky © Athanasopoulou 2022 <img width="1500" height="844" width_o="1500" height_o="844" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9445187397f0456ea80ffb880050be35722c872488e91ee9671641c926aea275/The-Distance.00_01_24_13.Still003.jpg" data-mid="197331343" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9445187397f0456ea80ffb880050be35722c872488e91ee9671641c926aea275/The-Distance.00_01_24_13.Still003.jpg" /> <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/52cc82196f6649e433f8fd3f6e97d5a41eda29ab2994a2475e7b318d37764a07/The-Distance_on-the-verge.jpg" data-mid="197330267" border="0" alt="Stills from The Distance between the staircase and the sky &copy; 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With a commitment to pioneer practice research in the digital creative arts, since 2014, 3D3 has trained interdisciplinary practitioner-researchers, and supported their ventures into cutting edge research in the interrelated fields of digital design, media, and arts. I exhibited two films together. Polykatoikia:Peripatos (2022) is a split screen documentation of an AR exchange with the poet Sotiris Koutsoukos. Within an eight-floor building in Athens, the photogrammetric model of the building’s central staircase - created from a ‘camera-walk’ - was installed in its place of origin. The distance between the staircase and the sky (2022) is the short poetry film that derived from that very exchange, after Koutsoukos wrote a poem which became the spine (or staircase) for the film. Side-by-side, the two films converse; Polykatoikia:Peripatos is methodological and processual, revealing the bodies engaged in peripatetic dialogue; The distance between the staircase and the sky is a darkly playful journey into a new planet made from an old building, that re-imagines the everyday as otherwordly. documentation video material © 3D3 https://www.kineticat.co.uk/Branches-of-Life Mon, 16 Mar 2020 15:36:22 +0000 Katerina Athanasopoulou https://www.kineticat.co.uk/Branches-of-Life Branches of Life2016 6’ stereo A woman under sedation for a lung operation sinks inside her own unconscious. Made for Body Of Songs and Andreya Triana's Branches Of Life. Credits: A film by Katerina AthanasopoulouSong by Andreya Triana Commisioned by Cast Iron Radio &amp; Recording for Body of Songs Branches of Life was part of Body of Songs, a project that brings together clinicians and artists who create original work based on individual organs. I worked with Andreya Triana's breathtaking song, based on the Lungs. I was inspired by Andreya's own experience of observing a bronchoscopy and I also had the honour of observing a lung operation at the University College Hospital at Westmoreland Street. This encounter not only illuminated the Lungs but also gave me a glimpse of the amazing spirit of the NHS.Branches of Life follows a woman under sedation for a lung operation, sinking in her own unconscious. The film was created in CGI, as a journey of a deep-sea diver within the landscape of the Lungs.&nbsp;I was delighted to speak about the inspiration and process behind the film at Directors Notes. Awards:Best Animation &amp; Best Film Score - The International Cancer Sucks Festival, May 2016 Screenings:Festival Miden at Cairo Video Festival, Egypt, 2017Festival Miden at [BOX] Video Art Project Space, Italy, 2017London Short Film Festival, 2017Interfilm Festival/KUKI, Germany, 2016Underwire Festival, UK, 2016Leeds Festival, UK, 2016 (Branches of Life)Aesthetica Film Festival, UK, 2016Sedicicorto Festival, Italy, 2016Animasyros Festival, Syros, Greece, 2016Festival Miden, Kalamata, Greece, 2016International Cancer Sucks Festival, London, 2016 https://www.kineticat.co.uk/Her-Voice Sat, 14 Mar 2020 11:54:26 +0000 Katerina Athanasopoulou https://www.kineticat.co.uk/Her-Voice ‘Most grandmothers read fairy tales to their grandchildren. Mine would put me to bed with stories about unidentified audio events and facts about auditory perception.’ Her Voice2019 6’ stereo&nbsp; Abandoning the cinematic widescreen whilst anticipating the agency of the ghost rising, Her Voice foresees the peripatetic gallery viewer, perusing, pausing or trailing through. The film investigates notions of Maskirovka, a military strategy of deception through surprise, simulation and camouflage. Her Voice also works on a level of Maskirovka - as one of the intrinsic qualities of animation is that it confesses from the start that this has never been real before, not until it is played out. Credits: A film by Katerina Athanasopoulou + Eleni IkoniadouVoice by Souzana ZamfeScore by Savvas MetaxasCommissioned by AUDINTFunded by Arts Council England Watch my conference paper ‘Her Voice through the ghost veil’ for Critical Costume Conference 2020 here Watch a 2’ trailer for Her Voice within Critical Costume Exhibition 2020 here Screenings: Panel discussion + video presentation + trailer exhibition : Critical Costume Conference 2020 / online Festival Miden’s “ARTificial Intelligence” at the Jönköpings läns museum, Sweden, from May 30 to August 23, 2020 Female Figures, LIAF / Barbican / December 2019 AUDINT Unsound:Undead / Arebyte Gallery, London/May 2019 <img width="3264" height="2448" width_o="3264" height_o="2448" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1b9e1689569864ada6bc0e452ef93514340a3e644d5cf54b7fdabaf5de3d7b14/Her-Voice_doc_Cathy-G.JPG" data-mid="63628094" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1b9e1689569864ada6bc0e452ef93514340a3e644d5cf54b7fdabaf5de3d7b14/Her-Voice_doc_Cathy-G.JPG" /> documentation from AUDINT Unsound:Undead/Arebyte Gallery/May2019/photo ©Cathy Greenhalgh 2019 <img width="1080" height="1920" width_o="1080" height_o="1920" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/24aa03c302244f5430783bfff7774cd95c2503bdc4ebd7896a5ede93fd51ba01/Her-Voice.jpg" data-mid="63507730" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/24aa03c302244f5430783bfff7774cd95c2503bdc4ebd7896a5ede93fd51ba01/Her-Voice.jpg" /> <img width="1080" height="1920" width_o="1080" height_o="1920" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/22d18268386fd6cdd2e1aee03ec306d885c5797c7e8e196cd96c8d3fdeb6b595/07.jpg" data-mid="63547650" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/22d18268386fd6cdd2e1aee03ec306d885c5797c7e8e196cd96c8d3fdeb6b595/07.jpg" /> stills from Her Voice https://www.kineticat.co.uk/Engine-Angelic-1 Tue, 17 Mar 2020 12:26:50 +0000 Katerina Athanasopoulou https://www.kineticat.co.uk/Engine-Angelic-1 Commissioned by Animate Projects on the theme of ‘Rough Machine’, this film transforms “Gazi”, a disused gasworks in Athens - now art space, into an infanticidal mother that bears and consumes her children. Engine Angelic2010 6’ stereo&nbsp; Credits: Director: Katerina AthanasopoulouSound Design/Editing: Ian ClarkMusic: Stetit Angelus / Catherine Brasvlasky, Renard Thierry, Joseph Row / Pump Audio Commissioned by Animate Projects for ‘Rough Machine’ Selected screenings“The Engine Room” Skol Art Space, Montreal, January/February 2015, curated by Stephanie Bertrand"Echoes of Eco", VIII International Winter Arts Festival, Sotchi, Russia, 2015, curated by Antonio GeusaArt-in Progress “Risk” Screening, November/December 2014Labyrinth of Darkness (Contemporary British Film Artists), Czech Centre, New York, May 2013, curated by Kim L PaceArt on the Underground's Canary Wharf Screen, London, June to August 2012 Treasuredome, Cultural Olympiad, Weymouth, August 2012 Femina Film Festival, Brazil, July 20123rd Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art, Greece, September to December 2011, curated by Paolo ColomboAnimasyros Festival of Animation, September 2011 “Paradise Lost”, at the Museum of Modern Art, Istanbul,Turkey, March-July 2011, curated by Paolo ColomboHands On at Collect, Saatchi Gallery, June 2011Moves – International Festival of Movement on Screen, Liverpool, April 2011 Animacall at the Contemporary Art Center of Thessaloniki, Greece, March-May 2011 Animfest Festival, Athens, Greece, March 2011 Online program “Click for flicks” for the International Festival of Clermont Ferrand 2011