Private Project

PROGONOI

My house is under occupation. An army of tiny porcelain figurines is everywhere. I never chose to have them, I just -inevitably- inherited them. And they are many and heavy and quite useless. Almost like aliens to me. These objects become the protagonists of this work which is an act of reconciliation and an attempt to turn the thick ancestral darkness -to the extent that i can- into light.

  • ANTHI KOUGIA
    Director
  • ANTHI KOUGIA
    Writer
  • Project Type:
    Experimental
  • Runtime:
    12 minutes 6 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    March 20, 2021
  • Country of Origin:
    Greece
  • Country of Filming:
    Greece
  • Language:
    Modern Greek (1453-)
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - ANTHI KOUGIA

I am a visual and performance artist from Athens, Greece. After graduating from the Department of Theatre Studies at the National University of Athens, I completed an MA in Performance Making at Goldsmiths, University of London. Since 2015 I create my own work which has been presented in the UK, Germany, Greece, Portugal and Italy.

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Director Statement

Regarding my artistic practice, the visual environment plays a significant role in my pieces. I work with speech, movement, sound and video.

Keywords of my practice that keep appearing in my work are the following: waiting room, change of given perspectives, distortion, absurdity, the invisible, absence, irony, kitsch and entertainment.