There's a change on the horizon - and it starts with YOU, because that is what THEY are afraid of :

that, which THEY fear : will make US stronger
that which : they FEAR WILL make us STRONGER
that WITCH they FEAR, is BAPHOMET -

She is Me, She is You; She is who we should have been all along,
with her savage beauty and brutal wisdom.

Pick up your horns, step through the frame - and deal with it - it won't always be easy, but we'll do it together.

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Original Music : Speira & KK
With additional double bass by Stefano Risso

Virtual tour of Chicago locating archive photography in a google earth animated tour, presented from the viewpoint of a synthetic community drawn from images of people found within the archive. The work represents several nested realities, pre/post/liminal and imaginary as the “metafilm” rewinds from most recent to most historic photo/location pair. Created as part of the Chicago Year of Public Arts 2017.

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..and while she keeps on drawing circles around the table of lost memories, she remembers Corrine when she was singing to her:

"Here I am in my home.
Nobody Knows where I happen to go
Maybe you Know ..."

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single shot in which the camera follows the dancer while the dancer follows the camera and both draw circles around the table of memories. The old gramophone and its repetitive rhythm create another cyclical movement. Does such a thing as a straight line exists?

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Dance: Fenia Kotsopoulou
Camera: Daz Disley
Edit/post: Fenia Kotsopoulou

Music: Pitman's Gramophone Course of Typewriter Keyboard Instruction - part 1
courtesy of Chinstrap Music
creativecommons.org/licences/by-nc-sa/3.0/

This video work is on the one hand a very literal reading of "digital pop" and uses the metaphor of an erect middle finger (digit) bursting (popping) balloons as a comment on Europe and its many power imbalances. On the other hand, the work uses the visual language of pop culture in its production being lit, shot, edited and performed as if a mainstream pop music video contrasting high production value (exclusivity) with an accessible trash aesthetic as a synonym for the populus versus the machine, the masses versus the mechanisms of "Big Europe".

In a post NSA world, this work contains many digital (binary) contradictions, hinting at an "In or Out", a "Yes or No", a "Sorrow or Joy" and without offering an answer, seeks to reveal the human at the centre of our cross-boundary collision of identities.

The Euro Witch Pop Bitch had a great party, but scratches an itch. She can't quite remember what happened but by the morning : the damage was done. She remembers very clearly having said no, but woke to found she had been made to accept yes. Wearing pearls of finery, symbolic tears of happiness and sorrow, her thoughtful insights speak thoughtless rubbish ... What she does know is that her middle finger is erect, carries power, and is ready to strike at the heart of our collective identity. What she's still unsure of ... is at whom it should be pointed.

Official selection:

- IVAHM  2016 || Madrid Spain (in tour)

- Athens Digital Art Festival 2016 || Athens , Greece

- TIME is Love.10 [Show 1] || at ZKM, Karlsruhe - Germany.

- TIME is Love.10 [Show 2] || ARTSPACE Tel Aviv – ISRAEL

The tensions between fleeing and remaining, inhabiting and disappearing - abandoned space and the desire to explore.

Camera/edit/sound: Daz Disley

Performance: Fenia Kotsopoulou

"lonely in a crowd; distant, separate from others; something in common, not sure what; crossing boundaries, twisting space. You are here, and I am here. Here but not here at all at the same time."

"HERE BUT NOT HERE AT ALL AT THE SAME TIME" is an experimental slow-motion, slit-scan short, exploring identity, presence and absence in a pedestrian context.
The slit-scan and the non conventional narrative structure that underlies the order and manner in which the "story" is presented aim to challenge the viewer’s traditional view and perspective.

Performance: Fenia Kotsopoulou
Original music: Jason Pottorff

Camera/edits/fx & additional sound design: Daz Disley

The video is part of the permanet collection of CAM- Casoria Contemporary Art Museum- in Naples, Italy.

Official music video for Timeolive's track Dancing Solo.

Original track performed and produced by Corrine Leland and Skully.
Recorded at the Noise Clinic.

Dance composition and performance: Fenia Kotsopoulou.
Location: La Vida Vintage
Camera/edit and FX design: Daz Disley.

 How can we ever know whether the person we meet really exist externally, if all we have to look at is the image of that person in our heads? How do we know that the other is not a distorted projection of our selves? and even if it is what is that changes in the way we experience the encounter with the other?

Performance: Fenia Kotsopoulou & Daz Disley

Camera/edit/slit scan: Daz Disley

Official music video for quiddity's track "Sunray".

Original track performed and produced by quiddity:  quiddity.org.uk

Shot and edited by Daz Disley

Performed by: Fenia Kotsopoulou.

Abandoned place with layers of colour : each room a different silent story.
The wind comes in through broken windows as outside birds are singing.
Inside : I hear my breath, my steps.
I am alone here and my heart beats fast so I dance.
I dance with my fears.

This work is a site specific improvised performance for camera made in Beelitz- Heilstaetten, TB clinic and sanatorium turned military hospital where both Hitler and Honecker were patients. Now an abandoned, haunting, eerie place; shrouded in mystery, occupied by the accumulated memories of thousands of patients. The dance is a spontaneous reaction to the fragmented memories hidden within the walls and the effects both a metaphor and communications channel for the myriad distressed psyches informing the performance.

Performance & Photography : Fenia Kotsopoulou
FX Design, Editing & Post : Daz Disley
Music : Sol Rezza

Shot at Beelitz-Heilstätten, June 2012
FX process : goo.gl/Ox45gR

* Special mention for excellence video dance in "Body in Focus" festival in Portugal

*3rd prize in Without Words Film Festival in France