Private Project

Thread, 2018-19

΄The cycle of life, an unending process about which we know little, neither it's beginning or end, whilst we spin endlessly in the cycle with memory our only weapon.

  • Yiota Kotika
    Director
  • Yiota Kotika
    Writer
  • Yiota Kotika
    Producer
  • Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker
    Key Cast
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    Το Νήμα, 2018-19
  • Project Type:
    Animation, Music Video, Student, Web / New Media
  • Runtime:
    4 minutes 40 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    October 12, 2019
  • Production Budget:
    200 EUR
  • Country of Origin:
    Greece
  • Country of Filming:
    Greece
  • Language:
    Modern Greek (1453-)
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital recorder
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Black & White and Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    Yes
  • Xenos - Senior Citizen
    Athens
    Greece
    May 30, 2018
    Athens
    Official Selection
Director Biography - Yiota Kotika

Yiota Kotica was born in Athens. She is a graduand of the Department of Sound and Image in the Digital Age at the Ionian University, she studied Humanities Studies at the Hellenic Open University as well as Visual Arts at Akto College, School of Fine Arts and Design, a validated body of the University of Middlesex (BA Fine Arts & Technology), earning a scholarship. Her work focuses on the research of the unfamiliar, under which she processes issues of memory, time and identity by presenting works using a variety of expressive mediums. Her work has featured at solo exhibitions and has participated in many group exhibitions of painting, video art and performance. She has also worked in designing and building scenery for theatrical performances. Her pieces belong to public institutions and private collections in Greece and abroad.

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Director Statement

The cycle of life, an unending process about which we know little, neither it's beginning or end, whilst we spin endlessly in the cycle with memory our only weapon.
The experiential realities, which along with time are probably the only ones that really belong to us, something that the Jesuit G. Baltasar has very wisely mentioned, concluding that 'All that really belongs to us is time, even he who has nothing else, has that. Merciless time that leaves the memory, as another muse, to adorn human thoughts. And in thousands of memories the wrinkles that we first saw as children in the faces of our intimate ones and which as another "yarn" extend to our former pink skin, to remind us that the circle of life really follows a steady, untouchable course.
(This work titled 'Thread' is dedicated to my grandmother whom I recently lost. I will always be grateful that instead of fairytales she told me the truths of life.)