"50.000 Touches [excerpt 8 ]" 2025
This is the eighth excerpt from the ongoing experimental film project “50.000 TOUCHES” (2022-current) on the poetics and politics of love, friendship, touch and intimacy in relation to self and other, through the means of alternative image making, performance for/with camera, and analogue filming.
The main ambition and challenge of this body of work lies with devoted attentiveness and deep commitment to a long and slow creative process during which the aim is to hand-develop 50.000 frames (only then the project can be considered completed), using a range of alternative image making techniques- in and out of the darkroom- such as cyanotypes, gelatin silver print, chemigrams, chlorophyll prints, anthotypes, image transfers, lumens, hybrid techniques, as well as super8 analogue film. Oscillating between digital and analogue methods, the frames are developed and re-assembled before being edited to shape an audio-visual poetic journey of a non-linear narrative unfolding through time.
In a process that matters more than the final product, the gaze navigates through the cracks of the body, the mind, and the soul; in search of (un)told stories, deep desires, a dance between past and present, and dreams that yearn to emerge from the subconscious.
Filming/image processing/sound/editing: Fenia Kotsopoulou
Featuring: Dimitra Kotsopoulou, Katerina Giannoula, Kostis K., Lena Sass & Etna, Leonora Lax, Maria Kamaraki, Vaya Kapousidou, Violeta.
Locations: Athens, Pyrgos, Thessaloniki, Volos (GR and Lincoln (UK)
Date of excerpt: March 2025
Techniques: cyanotypes, gelatin silver prints, chemigrams, anthotypes, image transfers, lumens, hybrid techniques, super8 analogue film.
Printing surfaces: photosensitive darkroom paper [Ilford/kodak], recycled paper, linen and cotton fabric, celluloid film super 8mm.