screening: Do fingers jump? – Panos Markou & Angeliki Pantazi

Greece

After the screening, there will be an open discussion with the artists and the audience, with interpretation in Greek Sign Language (GSL) and, if needed, in International Sign or British Sign Language (BSL).

Do fingers jump? is an experimentally accessible documentary about ARTOGETHER, a mixed abilities dance group. It follows rehearsals and assemblies as well as conversations with its members, giving an inside view of the group’s workings and who it consists of; their life, their relationship with dance and disability.  Through ARTOGETHER’s practice, alongside coordinator K. Gevetzi, disability becomes a departure to novel ways of coexistence and expression. In the same spirit, the film incorporates experiments between the filmmakers and the group’s dancers, exploring the limits of the camera as a body and a creative extension. The project started after a filmmaker and member of the team took an injury related break. Along with a friend and fellow filmmaker, they began to film the group’s weekly rehearsals. The documentary is in the developing stages and will be screened as a work in progress piece.

Duration:   min.

Credits

Trailer:

Panos Markou

I was born and raised in Athens. Since 2021, I have been working there as a camera operator and director for fiction and documentary films, videoclips and video art.

Angeliki Pantazi

I was born in Athens. After studies in psychology and then multimedia, I started working, in 2023, as a filmmaker. Apart from fiction, documentary and videodance films, I am engaged with cinema as a participatory tool through accessible shoots and workshops.