“Unstable Cities” is an audio-visual video animation created from 29 hand-drawn gouache, pastel, ink and pencil paintings as well as photographs of graffiti and buildings from different cities in Europe and in the US.
The work is a big fresco of an imaginary empty city populated by colorful spectral silhouettes in its walls. It has its roots in urban collective traumas such as Paris terrorist attacks and Athens crisis but also in street culture and graffiti art. It reflects the Metropolis instability (social, financial, territorial, environmental) linked to poorly conceived systems or even strategies resulting into accidents, errors, disorder or chaos.
The music composition has been based on generated or recorded sound material from prepared piano, computer voices, hip-hop samples and urban field recordings (emergency signals, city sounds, street voices). This material has been elaborated in order to create ambiguous sonic identities, fragmentations, micro-collages, accumulations, rhythmic patterns, primitive “accidents” and analog/digital errors.
“Unstable Cities” is articulated in 9 episodes of 1’45” to 3’30” each. It can be presented as one-channel or three-channel projection where the video episodes alternate on 3 different surfaces in apredetermined or random order.
The work is partly based on Georgia Spiropoulos’ “EROR - The Pianist” (2019), a multimedia instrumental opera commissioned & produced by Onassis Foundation, coproduced with IRCAM-Centre Pompidou.


  Honorable Jury Mention (Animation)
  11th Kolkata Shorts International Film Festival-2022 Kolkata, India

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