Women Cinemakers meets
Vicky Vassilopoulou Lives and works in Athens, Greece
Scratch is a captivating short experimental dance film by director and choreographer Vicky Vassilopoulou: inquiring into the sensation of imprisonment, its powerful mise-en-scène sapiently mixes the ordinary with the surreal, exploring the relationship between the language of body and its surrounding, to encourage cross-pollination of the spectatorship: we are particularly pleased to introduce our readers to Vassilopoulou's stimulating and multifaceted artistic production.
An interview by Francis L. Quettier and Dora S. Tennant womencinemaker@berlin.com
Hello Vicky and welcome to : we would start this interview with a couple of questions regarding your background. Are there any experiences that did particularly influence your evolution as a director and as a choreographer? Moreover, how does your
cultural substratum due direct the trajectory of your artistic research? I think I've always been involved with dancing. The sense of movement and my idea of dancing stem from very internal forms of expression. From customs, traditions, simple people of the village. Restrictive models of the province that evolved from ancient rituals consist memories of my childhood. Contact with nature from a very early age, the observation of life in the countryside,