It’s the last day of the family’s vacations. A little girl wants to swim without her wings, but her parents want to postpone it until next summer. An allegory about the attitude of the Western civilization towards the refugee crisis.

Filmed through the mirroring of a computer screen, the video reflects on a character’s pondering over the authenticity of things. What remains real in the absence of space and how does erotic speech take form when the storyteller’s gaze is mediated only through deflections? The title of the video refers to the blackness of an inactive computer screen that comes to rapture with the texture of natural colors in daylight.

Two ancient lovers, Orpheus and Eurydice, strive to remain connected forever. Even against death. And their love earns a place in eternity.

Images from a small shipyard somewhere in Greece. Water, bodies, ropes, chains, wood and metal in a filmic poem in black and white 16mm.

A dream without bounds. What is left to a people when intrusive European reality destroys its dreams? A utopia that activates a solidary life, a dispersal abroad, a nostalgia for home, but also a return to the substantive – far from political gab and pomposity – that points the way to an answer based on a social life, lyrical language and active solidarity. A certainty that utopia is no longer a dream, but an uncompromising answer to daily challenges.