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“On The Neck” (00:15:44) by Vera Iona Papadopoulou. Greece, 2023
Young Greek girl returns to her father’s village ‘Lemos’ and after meeting with a childhood friend from Ukraine, she is confronted with violent memories of sexual abuse that she has buried in her memory to protect herself.
Bio
Vera Iona Papadopoulou is a filmmaker with an artistic and performance art background.
She studied film directing at the Russian State University of Cinematography (VGIK). Fine Arts (ICA Moscow). Architecture in Odessa (OGASA) and Digital Arts in Athens (MA ASFA).
Papadopoulou’s artistic work includes documentaries, short films, video performances and live art, which have been presented at international festivals, museums and galleries (such as artvideoKOELN, International Athens Film Festival, GARAGE, Cookhouse Gallery, MoMa PopRally etc.). Her collaborations include some of the most important names in the field of performance and visual arts, such as Marina Abramovic and Yoko Ono. Having spent seven years of psychoanalysis as an analyst, she often works with psychoanalysts and psychologists to create a script. Papadopoulou’s mission is to tell real confessional stories through artistic language in order to evoke the audience’s feelings and provoke changes in real life. Her works can be characterized by immediacy and physicality, where the center of her study is always a Human. Human and nature. Identity and otherness. Passion. Removal. Immigration. Displacement.
Pebbles Underground is focused on showcasing and promoting experimental, avant-garde, underground, and no-to-low budget projects by artist-humans from all over the world. Absurd, uncanny, witty, humorous, slow-video – all are welcomed, and loved.
Pebbles Underground is an independent project not funded by any government or corporation, and we intend to keep it that way. Main source of funding is personal donations from humans organizing the project, who are artists themselves, and the main drive of the project is formed by the energy and involvement of the organizers, and the public.
