Private Project

Scopophilia

Through the voyeuristic nature of the internet, Alexis unintentionally witness a murder through his computer. Will he be able to uncover the murderer or he will be caught into his trap?

  • Natalia Lampropoulou
    Director
    e-Social (2015), White Collar (2016)
  • Ilektra Aggeletopoulou
    Director
  • Sotiris Petridis
    Writer
    e-Social (2015), White Collar (2016), #NotAlone (2017), 9023 (2017)
  • Sotiris Petridis
    Producer
    e-Social (2015), White Collar (2016), #NotAlone (2017), 9023 (2017)
  • Dimitris Tsakaleas
    Producer
    #NotAlone (2017), 9023 (2017)
  • Ilektra Aggeletopoulou
    Producer
    White Collar (2016), Emoticon Man (2017)
  • Konstantinos Liaros
    Key Cast
    "Alexis"
  • Ilectra Kartanou
    Key Cast
    "Niki"
  • Nikias Fontaras
    Key Cast
    "Tasos"
  • Eleni Thimiopoulou
    Key Cast
    "Maria"
  • Joyce Evidi
    Key Cast
    "Despina"
  • Project Type:
    Feature
  • Runtime:
    1 hour 10 minutes 20 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    September 9, 2018
  • Country of Origin:
    Greece
  • Country of Filming:
    Greece
  • Language:
    Modern Greek (1453-)
  • Shooting Format:
    2K
  • Aspect Ratio:
    2.35:1
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
  • Thessaloniki International Film Festival
    Thessaloniki
    Greece
    November 7, 2018
    World Premiere
    Special Youth Jury Award
  • Maryland International Film Festival
    Maryland
    United States
    March 29, 2019
    American Premiere
    Best Foreign Film
Director Biography - Natalia Lampropoulou, Ilektra Aggeletopoulou

Natalia Lampropoulou
From a very young age she discovered her tendency in arts. She studied interior designing and then continued her studies in School of Film Studies. She worked as a producer in Opera of Thessaloniki and in National Theatre of Northern Greece. Her short films, The Balloon (15’, 2013), e-Social (15’, 2015), and White Collar (8’, 2016) were officially selected by more than 200 International Film Festivals around the world, including countries such as USA, UK, Australia, Greece, Sweden, Canada, Mexico, India and Cyprus. Scopophilia (70’, 2018) is her first feature film.

Ilektra Aggeletopoulou
She has graduated in Film Studies in the Fine Arts School of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and has a MA in Digital Marketing and Social Media from Sheffield University. She has participated as an executive producer and as a producer in the following short films: e-Social (15’, 2015), White Collar (8’, 2016) and Emoticon Man (15’, 2017). Scopophilia (70’, 2018) is her first feature film.

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Director Statement

Contemporary culture is filled with technology, while social media are an integral part of the everyday life. Yet, there are not many films that are based on this important aspect of our society. This was the main reason that we decided to create Scopophilia and tell a story that is mostly happening on computer screens. The presence of the medium itself is integrated through every aspect of the storytelling and dominates the way of displaying every frame in the entire film.
Scopophilia is the first European computer screen movie, a new genre that is slowly emerging. As a matter of fact, there only two other films worldwide that belong to this new genre. Computers and their multitasking screens are part of our lives. New audiences are accustomed to this way of spectatorship in their routine. Our film aims to the conveyance of this “computer screen” dominance to the cinematic universe in terms of a digital mise-en-scène. The passiveness of the spectator that was used to be the rule on cinema is no longer applicable and the contemporary audience demands for more activeness.
This is the fundamental foundation of the narrative of Scopophilia; most of the times we have many windows and tabs open on our computer and do/watch many things in parallel. This “new frame” is what we use for the narrative of our film. We encounter the computer screen as a peculiar character that helps in the progression of the narrative. This filmmaking technique is really interesting and suitable for this film, because it helps the story to be unfolded in front of the eyes of the audience.
The story of the film is based on voyeurism, which is the essence of both social media and cinematic spectatorship. Most of the people enjoy watching films in order to see a story. Even more people prefer to “watch” a real story form their computer screens; the life of other people by following and interacting with them on social media. This is how our main character spends his day, by watching others on his computer screen. Scopophilia is a film that seeks to achieve the identification of the viewer with the main character through the voyeuristic use of the internet. The simulation of this experience is critical to the dissemination of the film's universe. All aspects of this film are aiming to this result.