España, Grecia. 2015. 6 min. Sin diálogos.
Dirección y guión: Despina Ikonomopulu
Producción: Philippos Vardakas
Edición: Despina Ikonomopulu
Animación: Philippos Vardakas
Cámara: Despina Ikonomopulu
Foto fija: Sharon Lommano
Múscia: Labros Gigounis
Diseño luces: Antonio Bejerano
Asesor científico: Dania Valvi
Danzarina: Meritxcell Checa
depilou@gmail.com
La piel de una mujer tras una segunda piel hecha de plástico, empujando nuestros límites como la humanidad a través de nuestro histérico consumo de plásticos que causan daños a la salud pública y el medio ambiente.
The skin of a woman amidst a second skin made of plastic, pushing our limits as humanity through our consuming hysteria of plasticisers causing damage to public health and the environment.
Bio:

Despina Ikonomopulu, directora de cine y artista audiovisual de origen griego. Radicada en Barcelona trabaja también en otras regiones como Londres, Atenas, Uruguay, Brasil y otros países de América Latina. Directora de fotografía y editora en producciones independientes de ficción, documentales, instalaciones audiovisuales y teatro.
Está particularmente interesada en la captura de las emociones humanas que traducen y prestan dinámicas socio-políticas en la poesía visual ofreciendo nuevas perspectivas. Su pasión por la narración visual y su visión del cine como una herramienta de transformación llevan a la creación de proyectos que abarcan las cuestiones ambientales y políticas a través de prismas innovadores e interactivos. Su trabajo ofrece la contemplación de los temas candentes de nuestro tiempo con la intención de promover el debate a través de proyectos híbridos que fusionan diferentes disciplinas para llegar a los límites del lenguaje audiovisual en la estimulación de formas para su público.
Parte de su objetivo es acompañar al espectador en un viaje de la conciencia. Sus películas, vídeos e instalaciones audiovisuales se han mostrado en diferentes festivales de cine, galerías y festivales de arte en Grecia, España, Reino Unido, Italia, Brasil, Chile, EE.UU., Chipre y Serbia, entre otros, y ha ganado premios y menciones especiales por su trabajo.
Despina Ikonomopulu, is a filmmaker and audio visual artist of Greek Origin. She is currently based in Barcelona while also being active in other regions including London, Athens, Uruguay, Brazil and other Latin American countries. She works as a cinematographer and editor in independent productions of fiction, documentary, audio-visual installations and theatre while creating her own projects as a director.
She is particularly interested in capturing human emotions that translate and render socio-political dynamics in visual poetry and offer new perspectives. Her passion for visual storytelling and her vision of film as a tool of transformation urge her to create projects that embrace environmental and political issues through innovative and interactive prisms. Her work offers contemplation on the burning issues of our time intending to generate debate through hybrid projects that fuse different disciplines and push the boundaries of audio-visual language in stimulating ways for her audiences.
Part of her objective is to accompany the spectator in a journey of awareness that they complete together. Her films, videos and audio-visual installations have been showed in different film festivals, galleries and art festivals in Greece, Spain, UK, Italy, Brazil, Chile, USA, Cyprus, and Serbia among others, and she has won prizes and special mentions for her work.
FILMOGRAPHY Despina Ikonomopulu
2008 Character 08 minutes fiction/comedy
2008 ´Trancity´ 52 minutes documentary/social,urban,immigration
2010 ´Diverted Paths´ 08 minutes experimental/ video dance
https://vimeo.com/26004759 Video Dance Athens Project 2010 Athens, Greece
Exhibition ACTION WOMAN Civic Center Barceloneta 6/28 March 2014
2011 ´Palindromia´ 08 minutes experimental
https://vimeo.com/23202593
Los Angeles Film Festival of Inapropriation , Exhibition ACTION WOMAN Civic Center Barceloneta 6/28 March 2014
2012 ´Palomo´05 minutes documentary /social,urban,recycling
https://vimeo.com/109188243
2012 ´Loop´ 10 minutes experimental fiction Winner : Best Experimental Short film ´London Greek Film Festival´(2014)
Official Selection:
International Festival of Drama, Greece, 2014
Exhibition ACTION WOMAN Civic Center Barceloneta 2014
"BorderBody - Mixing Future" international art festival of photography, video art, installation and performing art at Palazzo Barone Ferrara in Bari (Italy) 2014
2013 ´Debtfools´ 09 minutes fiction/comedy
http://www.debtfools.org/ Winner: Audience Award : 'Skepto' Film Festival Sardinia, Italy (2013)
Jury Award : Saltburn Film Festival, United Kingdom (2013)
Best Script : Award Festival de Cine de Sant Vicenç de Castellet, Spain (2013)
Best short film : ´L´anello debole´ Rome,Italy (2014).
Official Selection:
'Drama International Short Film Festival´ (2013) Drama, Greece
´Athens International Short Film Festival´ Athens,Greece(2013)
´International Short Film Festival of Cyprus , Lemesos Cyrpus(2013)
´Los Angeles Greek Film Festival´Los Angeles U.S.A (2014),
'Solo cortos' Barcelona Nou Barris (2014),
´Fife Festival, Croatia ´(2014)
London Greek Film Festival , London UK(2014)
International Festival of Independent Film of Cerdanya , Spain(2013)
Psarokokalo International Film Festival, Greece(2013)
El Festivalico Spain (2013)
Cine a la Calle Colombia (2014)
Festival de Cine de Alicante Spain (2014)
International Short Film Festival of Ponferrada, Spain(2014).
2014 ´Sooner or Later ´7 minutes experimental/ video art
https://vimeo.com/108373662
http://worldwatermuseum.com/past.html
Presented at Technoxoros Art Gallery, Athens
2015 ´Aurora´ 07 minutes experimental/ video dance
http://www.auroravideodance.com/
Official Selection:
FEM CINE festival de Cine de Mujeres Santiago Chile (2015)
Mikonos Biennale, Mykonos Greece (2015)
Festival MITS Videodanza Social , Barcelona , Spain (2015)