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BETWEEN WATER AND ROOF: STORIES OF BLACK

"Between Water and Roof: Stories of Black" is an experimental documentary exploring the fluid space between darkness and light, fear and transformation. Through poetic imagery, narrative interviews, and choreographic expression, the film invites viewers on a sensory journey into the hidden dimensions of human existence.

  • Efi Spyrou
    Director
  • Efi Spyrou
    Writer
  • Efi Spyrou
    Producer
  • Marianna Kavallieratou
    Key Cast
    "Performer"
  • George Drivas
    Key Cast
    "Visual Artis-Film Director"
  • Dimitris Dikeos
    Key Cast
    "Professor of Psychiatry- Somnologist"
  • Project Type:
    Documentary, Experimental
  • Runtime:
    10 minutes 15 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    September 1, 2025
  • Production Budget:
    9,000 EUR
  • Country of Origin:
    Greece
  • Country of Filming:
    Greece
  • Language:
    Greek (Modern)
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Efi Spyrou

Efi Spyrou is a visual artist and filmmaker whose work navigates the intersections of experimental cinema, video art, and performance. Her films explore existential themes, philosophical inquiry, and human consciousness through poetic imagery, movement, and sound. With a background in sculpture, installation, and performance, her practice extends into the realm of moving image, where she blends documentary storytelling with choreographic expression. Spyrou's films have been officially selected and awarded at international art film festivals.
Spyrou’s work seeks to challenge perceptions of reality by exploring the dualities of existence—light and darkness, certainty and uncertainty, movement, and stillness. Through a hybrid of film, video art, and performance, she constructs immersive narratives that engage both intellect and emotion. Her films are spaces of contemplation, where sound, image, and choreography converge to question the limits of consciousness and the unseen dimensions of human experience.

Selected Filmography
- WOMANIFESTO I & II
Shortlisted Best Experimental Short- MiraBan UK Film Awards, 2025
Best Experimental Short – Los Angeles Film and Documentary Awards, 2024
Official Selection – 3d Mediterranean Documentary Festival, Samos, 2025
Exhibition- [ NiMAC] Nicosia Municipal Arts Centre, solo exhibition Repetitive Acts, 2024–2025
Screening- MOMus – Alex Mylona Museum (Athens)
Screening- A. G. Leventis Gallery (Nicosia), 2023

- IDENTITY IN BETWEEN
Winner – V.I.Z Film Festival, Odessa, 2024
Best Experimental Short – San Francisco Arthouse Short Festival, 2023
Official Selection – AVIFF Cannes Art Film Festival (Top 26 Art Films), 2022
Premiere – Athens Avant Garde Film Festival (Greek Film Archive), 2022
Exhibition & Public Projections – MOMus Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, 2021
Kyiv Biennial – Official Selection, 2021

- LA FILA LUNGA (with Stefania Galegati)
Biennale Arcipelago Mediterraneo (BAM), Palermo, 2022

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Director Statement

"Between Water and Roof: Stories of Black" is an exploration of the paradoxes that define our existence—light within darkness, movement within stillness, the liminality between life and death. Through the convergence of different voices, perspectives, experiences, and disciplines, the film seeks to unravel the complexity and liberation found in the concept of blackness—not as an absence, but as a space of transformation.
Darkness is often feared, yet within it lies the potential for illumination. My intent is not merely to present the human condition in its most shadowed form but to lead the audience toward a visceral, paradoxical revelation—a deep stirring of the senses, the intellect, and ultimately, an elevation of the spirit. The challenge is to illuminate the Other side of black—the blinding light it contains.
The film suggests that human strength and the luminosity of Being can only be truly recognized in that final moment before submersion—before the roof fills with water. In this suspended space, where boundaries dissolve and pulse between worlds, time and place cease to exist. Am I alive or dead? Dreaming or awake? In darkness or in light? Is what I experience black light (the sun) or luminous darkness?
In this seemingly inescapable space, where reality appears without exit, anything remains possible. Between Water and Roof is, ultimately, a reconciliation—with the body of blackness, both within and around us. And in a single moment of transformation, it can become a body of light.
As Rimbaud writes, "The night flows through my eyes, with such a sun!"—a vision of hell where hymns are impossible, yet from which a new language may emerge.