homeland I
Eugenia Grammenou 2021According to Roland Barthes, one’s homeland is one’s childhood taking us where memories have formed our first homeland, the primordial and decisive one. Homeland I, is a video about the sense of that place. What is it exactly? Each person is formed through childhood memories and recalling these memories, one performs a peculiar patriotic recognition of the first and fundamental homeland of their existence.
With out liking at all narrow categorizations like video poetry, poem film/video, experimental etc because I believe that they can’t describe the hugeness of an art work, I think that Homeland I is an art work- inquiry about homeland. It walks on the sensitive line that connect memory and identity, then and now.
Trailer Homeland I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Q2RNd6VNA4&ab_channel=EugeniaGrammenou
Duration 5:47΄΄
Concept and Direction
Eugenia Grammenou
Poetry/Narrative text
Georgia Diakou
Narration
Eugenia Grammenou
Music
Agamemnon Nakos
Vocals
Eno Athanasiadou
Song at the ending
The Boy (Alexandros Voylgaris) - Dagomatia
Inner Ear Records
Editing
Eugenia Grammenou
Production manager
Kalliopi Georgaroudi
Camera
Eno Athanasiadou
Kalliopi Georgaroudi
Eugenia Grammenou
Despina Chrisidou
Translation
Rania Emmanouilidou
Editing Translation
Efi Antoniou
Katherine Mac Daniel
With
Eno Athnasiadou
Niki Boudoudi
Estella Papadaki
Christina Plousiou
Eugenia Grammenou
Special thanks to
Alexandros Voulgaris
Elsa Iatrou
Lia Phsoma
Ira Spagandorou
Dimitris Theoharidis