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Two men go in search of a birdman to become a bird in nine steps.

Isabella is in quarantine due to the coronavirus. She decides it’s the right time to read all of Darwin’s books, but the writing is heavy and she falls asleep while reading. Darwin’s ghost appears in her dream. He wants to talk about the expression of emotions, because Isabella is an actress. Darwin explains that in his book “On the Expression of Emotions on Man and Animals,” he presents his hypothesis that basic expressions – just like bones or the famous beaks of his finches – are also shaped by evolution.

Just a man walking with nothing to say.

Altostratus clouds are grey or blue grey. The sun or moon may shine through these clouds but it's signaling that a storm is on the way. This is a piece involving movement, sound, and text. It is meant to hold a space for reflection, to consider what hangs above us and how it all may fall.

Having a chat with my alter ego as it looks on my holding two pairs of scissors and slowly cutting my hair. Sometimes it encourages me and at other times, it tries to stop me.

HOW ARE WE is a collectively-created performance consisting of fifteen 90-second solos that respond to 10 prompts proposed by artists Emily Mast and Yehuda Duenyas.

Girlhood follows the story of three seventeen-year-old girls in a neighborhood in the center of Athens as they go through the difficult period of transition to adulthood while in quarantine isolation. Christina, Nefeli and Vera experiencing sexism, dream of their independence and try to learn to love themselves. With their faces glued to a screen, they take refuge in each other and await to finish school.

Captures of Kareem’s universe during the pandemic. A short film about the feeling of isolation, creating art in a world paused by Covid-19, and friendship.

“We are the King of Ventilators” is a compelling and prescient performance to camera by Jim Fletcher, directed by Tim Etchells, with text by Chris Thorpe. The work takes a phrase about US ventilator production repeated by US President Donald Trump during the Covid-19 epidemic, and places it in sharp counterpoint with original material to create a comical and unsettling reflection on power, mortality, and delusion.

Hamlet browses his desktop. Shakespeare’s play themes become transparent through the use of media. During an evening screen-mirroring, love, grief, anti-depressants, death, self- destruction are intermixed with endless references to pop internet culture, to animation, to current affairs.

A native acanthus (Acanthus mollis L.) is torn apart. Laocoon’s Group and the allegory of Saint Paisios of Mount Athos. Arvo Pärt's “Triodion” begins with Trisagion and ends with it. Every beginning of Spring, Aris suppresses the momentum of weeds in the garden.

"I do what I do as an artist to bring beauty to the world. These masks are my contribution to and acknowledgment of my place as a useful and productive member of our human society."

"Getting a check." This artwork was created in the context of ENTER project, an initiative of Onassis Foundation. Onassis Stegi and Onassis USA give artists from all around the world 120 hours to create from home a series of new original commissions; sharing their new reality. Let’s ENTER.

“AntiBody” is about an emotional state during the times of the pandemic. Feeling the vulnerability of the body, “AntiBody” becomes a form of resistance, physically and psychologically. It’s also about movement and the lack thereof. While I was working on this piece, I was reading about the therapeutical properties of the Orphic hymns, Gurdjieff’s sacred movements and the synthetic organisms called Xenobots.

As one of the first countries hit by Covid-19, South Korea was also one of the first to get back to a ‘normal’ life.

In this suspended reality, heightened by the pandemic, the forces of the city haven’t stopped. Filmed under the elevated 7 train, Soberanis' experimental audiovisual work slips between memories and reflections on the current moment in Queens.

A man describes in as few words as possible the human race, which may be already extinct.

“Slothian days” is a sci-fi story filmed in various locations around Berlin. Featuring three notable performers of Berlin’s dance scene, Τy Boomershine, Ogbitse Omagbemi, and Leah Katz, “Slothian days” is liberating in these striving times, with its humor and dance motivating us to start all over again.

In a distant future world, where water and air are contaminated, and it is prohibited to touch one another, a girl and a boy decide to go to a beach. Yorgos Zois creates an erotic sci fi through these dystopian times.

This is a spell to move grief into the light of day, inspired by the riotous singing of the birds on COVID spring mornings. The sounds come from North Indian classical music, broken to pieces and composed into new form, through the body.