work can certainly make for a unique and often thrilling experience. I'm sure home viewing will produce very interesting and unexpected encounters. It's important to mention that you co-organizes the activities of Latomeio Project, an artistic collective that aims to bring together people with different artistic backgrounds and to promote new forms of art: it's no doubt that interdisciplinary collaborations are today ever growing forces in Contemporary Art and that the most exciting things happen when creative minds from different fields of practice meet and collaborate on a project. What did address you to involve people from different disciplines? Can you explain how your work demonstrates communication between artists from different disciplines? I never thought that my personal projects alone would be enough to make me happy. I enjoy working on commission and exploiting all the fascinating possibilities that film and video can give you when they are employed in a subordinate role to other arts. Being the undisputed head of a project, the person whose inspiration is responsible for everybody's success – a.k.a. the stereotypical director – is not a role that I can undertake. LatoMeio Project gave me the opportunity to collaborate with Greek performance artist and acrobat Eleni Danesi: the way performance art and video work together is a refreshing reminder that film still retains the same power of documentation that created the need for cinema in the first place. For me, since in my films I start mostly from form, the collaboration with an artist from a different discipline gives me the opportunity to work most closely on content. To find and isolate the essentials in an image, to highlight with simplicity and immediacy all the readings it has to convey, is a difficult but rewarding task. Before deciding to attend film school, I used to be a professional musician (I played the stringed instrument called Santouri, commonly employed in the traditional music of Greece, Russia, Iran and India). Music is, I feel, the art that is the least hypocritical about its supposed autonomy: we all know that a concert is not just music but theater
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Women Cinemakers