Squared
A short tale about the simplicity of complicated mathematical concepts and the complexity of a simple geometrical shape, narrated by the most abstract aspect of the human body. Can a shadow be as accurate as an equation and as expressive as a feeling?
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Sofia KondyliaDirector
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Sofia KondyliaProducer
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Antari LoopsMusic
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Presh TalkawarVoices“The quadratic formula: an intuitive explanation”
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Ben WeissVoices“Fractals: a world in a grain of sand”, Tedx Talks, Venice
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Sofia KondyliaCinematography, costume, and lights
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Sofia KondyliaChoreography, Dance, and Editing
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Fenia KotsopoulouSpecial Thanks
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Eleni MloukieSpecial Thanks
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Project Type:Experimental, Short
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Genres:Dance, Video art
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Runtime:10 minutes
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Completion Date:April 19, 2020
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Country of Origin:Greece
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Country of Filming:Netherlands
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Language:English
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Shooting Format:Digital
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Aspect Ratio:16:9
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Film Color:Color
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First-time Filmmaker:Yes
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Student Project:No
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FLICKFAIR festivalLos Angeles, California
United States
June 1, 2020
Finalist -
BUEIFF ChannelBuenos Aires, Argentina
United States
August 2, 2020
Official Selection -
Scotland’s Festival of Dance on ScreenAberdeen
United Kingdom
March 11, 2021
Artist Presentations -
11th Athens Video Dance ProjectAthens
Greece
December 18, 2020
Official Selection
Sofia Kondylia is a choreographer, director, performer, workshop leader and architect. Her work expands on the versatile intersections between choreography and architecture, through physical and screendance work since 2015. Motivated by the fact that movement creates space, she uses dance as a dynamic spatiotemporal language to create and reinvent the space, narrating corporeal stories about internal psychic conflict, social interaction, and self-transformation. Her practice-as-research projects, “Architecture + Dance” and “Performing Geometries” have resulted in 13 productions, as well as a series of lectures, artist presentations and workshops, which she has toured internationally through artistic residencies, festivals, and conferences. She has been awarded governmental, as well as private funding, international awards, and an honorary museum exhibition of her work in 2021 in Greece. She holds an MA in Performance Practices (The Netherlands), an MA in Architectural Engineering, and a BA in Dance and Dance Pedagogy (Greece). She currently lives and works in Aberdeen, Scotland.
“I am a choreographer interested in the emotional and dramaturgical qualities of creating space through body movement. My work stems from the actualization of a simple truth: that movement creates space. My double-disciplined background, as a dancer and architect, expands my work on the versatile intersections between dance and architecture through artistic research, choreography, performance and screendance work. In my choreographic practice, I aim in creating performance spaces, where the body is simultaneously realized as mind, and vice versa, during and through the dancing praxis, provoking thinking shift and change. So far, my work has been about internal psychic conflict, social interaction, and self-transformation”.