The work was open for viewing only during the Summer Screenings 2024.
TAMSARA by Michel Pavlou France, Greece (2010)
Rush hour in the corridors of the Paris metro. A wind-up doll, one of those cheap toys sold by peddlers on the fly, dances between the steps of hurried passers-by, their legs acting as a mechanical shutter bringing the object to life and highlighting the mechanization of the human movement. (« Tamzara” is a Turkish / Armenian folk tune / dance)
European premiere : Videoformes 2010, Clermont Ferrand
Bio
Michel Pavlou is a Greek visual artist and independent filmmaker who lives and works in Oslo and Brussels. His works have been shown and awarded since 1990 in numerous exhibitions and festivals in Rotterdam, Ann Arbor, Hamburg, São Paulo, Seoul, Berlin, Paris, Lisbon, Athens and Tehran among many others. Besides his focus on moving image he has worked in the areas of painting, photography, curatorship, theater scenography, poetry and music. He gained several grants, supports and fellowships for his visual researches, by international institutions, including the Norwegian State’s Guaranty Income for Artists (since 2012).
His raw filmic material consists mainly of scenes from everyday life, which he distorts to highlight the reversible relationships between present and past, between fiction and reality.
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.
