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?

  • Sofia Kondylia
    Director
  • Sofia Kondylia
    Producer
  • Antari Loops
    Music
  • Presh Talkawar
    Voices
    “The quadratic formula: an intuitive explanation”
  • Ben Weiss
    Voices
    “Fractals: a world in a grain of sand”, Tedx Talks, Venice
  • Sofia Kondylia
    Cinematography, costume, and lights
  • Sofia Kondylia
    Choreography, Dance, and Editing
  • Fenia Kotsopoulou
    Special Thanks
  • Eleni Mloukie
    Special Thanks
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Short
  • Genres:
    Dance, Video art
  • Runtime:
    10 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    April 19, 2020
  • Country of Origin:
    Greece
  • Country of Filming:
    Netherlands
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    No
  • FLICKFAIR festival
    Los Angeles, California
    United States
    June 1, 2020
    Finalist
  • BUEIFF Channel
    Buenos Aires, Argentina
    United States
    August 2, 2020
    Official Selection
  • Scotland’s Festival of Dance on Screen
    Aberdeen
    United Kingdom
    March 11, 2021
    Artist Presentations
  • 11th Athens Video Dance Project
    Athens
    Greece
    December 18, 2020
    Official Selection
Director Biography - Sofia Kondylia

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.

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Director Statement

“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”.