Experimental Short, 17:21 min, 2015, Co-Produced with Lucid Walks
FESTIVALS & SCREENING
- Stockholm Independent Film Festival, 2017
- Hellas Filmbox Berlin, 2017
- Berlin Liberi Film Festival, 2016
- Antimatter Film Festival, Victoria British Columbia, 2016
- L.A. Cine Fest Los Angeles, 2016
- Depth Of Field Film Festival Vancouver, 2016
SYNOPSIS
Three young, white men travel through Morocco. They have assigned themselves a mission and have entrusted a photographer with documenting their deeds. Drive Through is the story of this self-assigned ‘mission’, in which nothing works out as envisioned…. The essay film relies on a set of photo documents that become animated through staged gestures, an imaginative handling of ambient sound and a playful inclusion of the weather conditions found on location, while filming. In what appears to be an eighteen-minute-long single shot, the skillfully produced short retells a disturbing story of ‘good intentions’. The photographer, also narrator of the unfolding diegesis, juxtaposes travel memories with photographic snapshots to a point where facts become undistinguishable from fiction. Drive Through is a multilayered, circular narrative that works as critique of travel-photography and of the all too easily applied aesthetics of the photographic collage.
CREDITS
Written, Directed & Performed by Stefanos Pavlakis
Produced by Panos Adamopoulos & Stefanos Pavlakis
Narrator: Stefanos Pavlakis
Photography: Stefanos Pavlakis
Art Direction: Stefanos Pavlakis & Nathanja Smeers
Camera & Sound Assistance: Ilias Pavlakis
Editing: Stefanos Pavlakis
Sound Design: Fred Bigots