Project Detail

Perdikaki

Name: Perdikaki
Director: Catriona Gallagher
Genre: Experimental, Climate / Environment, Woman Director, Science
Released: 2019
Duration: 37 min 40 sec

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Synopsis

Three characters search for meaning in an urban weed. The Narrator pursues perdikaki to find the woman first seen picking it, yet as observations accumulate a shadow researcher emerges. Is Kyria’s knowledge being sought, or the Collector’s? And, other than the symbolic plant, do the other figures exist at all?

Details

Year: 2019
Type of project: Shorts
Running time: 37 min 40 sec
Format: HD video
Director: Catriona Gallagher
Producer: Catriona Gallagher
Editor: Catriona Gallagher, Nikoleta Leousi
Director of Photography: Catriona Gallagher
Sound: Alyssa Moxley
Composer: Alyssa Moxley
Principal cast: Maroula Antoniadou, John Bicknell, Catriona Gallagher

Genre

Experimental Climate / Environment Woman Director Science

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Catriona Gallagher

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www.catrionargallagher.com/about

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