This year's festival celebrates young artists: There are more works by artists to discover than by those we have known from the past. They are more, they are younger, they have more variety in their luggage.

Body and Space
2004/ 2'
director, music, photography, editing: Leandros Katsouris. choreography, performers: Sapphire Williams, Leandros Katsouris. production: Leandros Katsouris. Greece- UK
The film is an exploration of the visual relationship between body motion and space. Starting off with a claustrophobic mood of confined and restricted motion, the body evolves from entrapment to freedom of movement within space. The film is a combination of video and animation.
Leandros Katsouris studied Graphic Design at Camberwell College of Arts of the University of the Arts, London and Sapphire Williams studied Contemporary Dance at Laban college in London.

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Inflecting Space
2004/ 6'
director, photography, editing: Popi Iakovou. choreographer: Kostas Gerardos. music: Stephen Daltry. performer: Kostas Gerardos. producer: Popi Iakovou, Cumis. Greece
Διαπλάσεις are about memory- memory as a brain process, taking place in people's minds, and about the mechanism that causes it, expresses it, determines and re-determines; a mechanism based on non-linear, non-rational models as far as both time and space are concerned. A different series of events is formed in our memories, which has nothing to do with the "actual" chronological sequence of events but with emotional triggers.
We often wish to forget, not to remember, to empty our heads. Yet the city is charged with memories, so we resort to nature. In nature, our protagonist is liberated from his memories, his brain empties, and he finally manages to establish his own space.
Popi Iakovou is a graduate of the School of Architecture, University of Thessaloniki, and her post-graduate studies at Cambridge, UK focus on Architecture and the Moving Images.

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Lady Lazarus
2004/ 6'
director: gus. choreographer: Avgi Progidou.music: Tom Ze. photography: Petros Kavgatzis. editing: art cut. performers: Ariadni Mikou. production: art cut. Greece
" I may be skin and bone
Nevertheless, I am the same identical woman"
Sylvia Plath

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In silence
director, photography: Stefanos Potamianos. choreographer: Mariella Nestora. music: Ilios.
editing: Stefanos Bertakis. performers: Irida Kyriakopoulou, Katerina Bella, Marilena Petridou, Sania Strimpakou, Iris Karagian, Rania Glymitsa, Christina Vasileiou. production: YELP danceco. Greece
Seven solos based on the seven deadly sins, part of an interactive performance-exploration of the various manifestations of silence within and beyond the capabilities of body, sound and speech.
Mariella Nestora established YELP dance company in 1996 in London, where she studied (London Contemporary Dance School), and she has been living in Athens since 2001, working as a choreographer and for the theater. Her company has performed in several European countries, is credited with 13 productions, and has been supported by the Hellenic Ministry of Culture since 2001. Stefanos Potamianos has studied at the London International Film School (1994-96) and has just completed his first short film (The Solo) in Greece, with the support of the Hellenic Film Centre.

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... moments...
2004/ 3'
director: Nikos Giavropoulos - Lilly Velissariou. choreographer: Lilly Velissariou. music: Andrei Petrov. photography: Nikos Gavropoulos.editing: Christos Prossilis. performers: Ifigeneia Koufoudaki, Kostis Vassiliangos, Lilly Velissariou, Nikos Gavropoulos, Dance company "Vis Motrix - Kinitirios Dynami". Greece
A new edition inspired from L. Velissariou's past choreography "....moments..." of 1996.
Lilly Velissariou was born in Athens. She has studied dance, art scenery, photography, mask for the theatre, music. Since 1989 she has choreographed up to 22 choreographies. She created two dance groups and the Ministry of Culture has supported her work for 10 years. Nikos Giavropoulos was born in Thessaloniki. He studied art scenography at Stavrakos school of film and TV. He has participated in many festivals and exhibitions in Greece and abroad.

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Untitled
2004/ 6'
director, choreographer, photography, editing: Rena Tsaggaiou. music: Kirjuel. performer: Niki Chadjivassiliadou. production: Rena Tsaggaiou. Greece
The same place as when left day after day for the roads. The back roads. Returned to night after night. Paced from wall to wall in the dark. The then fleeting dark of night. Now as if strange to him seen to rise and go. Disappear and reappear at another place again. Or the same. Nothing to show not the same. No wall toward which or further from. In the same place as when paced from wall to wall all places as the same. Or in another. Nothing to show not another. Where never. Rise and go in the same place as ever. Disappear and reappear in another where never. Nothing to show not another where never. Nothing but the strokes. The cries. The same as ever.
(Samuel Beckett, Stirrings Still)

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Aριθμός ψυγείου 627593
Georgia Vardarou, Sandra Grimma, Tassos Karachalios, Avgi Panagiotopoulou, Alex Iliopoulou
A dream of escape, or ghosts οn the roof top?

Xωρίς Ίχνος
director: Evangelos Poulinas, choreographer: Christina Mertzani. performer: Ioulia Goutsiou, Christina Mertzani, Mary Randou, Christiana Sarasidou
A game of the body and image

The Tour
Christina Gouzeli, Taxiarchis Vassilakos, Eleni Karozi, Gogo Kipri, Sofia Printzou
Around the world in two days!

For the three previous films:
photography: Makis Faros, Xenofondas Vardaros, Panayiotis Tsaggas. editing: Johny Daridis, Makis Faros, Xenofondas Vardaros. Production manager: Charis Karnezi. production: British Council. Greece
Three of the five films which were the outcome of director and producer Margaret Williams's laboratory with the students of the National Dance School last year.

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Tell me secrets Darling
2004/ 4'
director, choreographer: Veroniki Tsougrani. editing: Theodoris Tzantarmas, Leonidas Gerontidis. music: Pizzicato Five, Fred Astaire. photography: Theodoris Tzanarmas, Leonidas Gerontidis. performers: B + 6. production: B + 6. Greece
Filmed in a city café, this film is a humorous look at everyday moments of a group of young people.
Something one should know about its creators is that "They are all happy!"

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Talspel
2004/ 7'
director, photography: Μαριλένα Πετρίδου. concept, choreographer: Μαριλένα Πετρίδου, Σάνια Στριμπάκου. performer: Σάνια Στριμπάκου. music: Monochrome. editing, post production: Μαρίνα Γιώτη. production: pedestrian. Greece
She is found in a tiny and totally defined space...She discovers, recognizes, but doubts its mental and physical borders and characteristics ... She is busy with her internal world and space, however she dreams of and wishes for whatever is outside... She collects her supplies... changes her mind...
A movement video that deals with isolation, imprisoning and the attempt to change perspective in search for communication and memory... (Based on 'Plastel' a one-minute, non-edited, one-shot video, made for "One minute Wonders" section at the Place Dance on Screen Festival...)
Pedestrian is a collective of artists from various disciplines who joined forces for the creation of audiovisual and installation works, and of events in private and public spaces. talspel is their first choreographic attempt for camera. It is based on plastel - made to be 1 minute-long unedited- screened at Videodance 2003. talspel was also screened at 'Diarroes' Platform for Young Artists, and at the Evening for New Choreographers of the Organisation for Dance and Eurythmics - Greek Month of Dance 2004.

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