A new Project has started on emptyfilm called Moving Faces...
http://movingfaces.emptyfilm.com
this is the About text from its' site
ABOUT THE FILM PROJECT
On the 15th December 2009 I started a film project shooting slow motion video portraits with a DSLR camera,
which I started to upload on Youtube (http://www.youtube.com/movingfaces).
My aim is to shoot,and upload 1.000 of those video portraits of people from all walks of life.
With the help of my partner, choreographer and new media artist, Eleni Karozi, this process will likely take me about 2 years.
When i was reading statistics I often came across huge numbers standing for human lives. I thought that by exposing a viewer to the mass
of 1.000 moving faces, which nobody would have the time to browse through entirely, she or he would re-evaluate the meaning
behind numbers we happen to read in surveys
The project proceeds as an online video project, with the help of Web developer Fotis Chatzinikos,
and once completed it could possibly become a videoart-installation.
MOTIVATION
In this period of the so called 'economic crisis' employers and even governments have a great excuse to exploit and disregard
working rights and undermine living conditions for profit. It seems to me that we were blessed with rights that we take for granted,
(vacations- 8 hour shift-insurance and health care etc) and rarely realise that these rights were established just a few decades earlier
through fights and huge sacrifices. Even though there might be much worse exploitations than the ones we personally face,
I have come to believe that it is important to risk and fight in order to maintain our rights and better the living conditions
for ourselves and others.
RAISING MONEY FOR ANTI SLAVERY INTERNATIONAL
Inspired by a friend, Georgios Cherouvim, that used an online service to raise money for a charity
a couple of months ago, and after reading about modern day slavery which is something often overlooked,
I decided to start a page in the same web site (www.justgiving.com) alongside the portrait project and possibly inspire some
people to donate to an organisation called Anti Slavery International (www.antislavery.org), which is active since 1836 and
fights to maintain freedom and suspend all forms of slavery.
The project and the charity are two parallel and independent activities however.
I have to make clear that i do not take any money from the donations made on JustGiving.com
As I donated a bit of money myself after I visited the organisations site and informed myself on modern day slavery,
I simply encourage you to read some of the facts they list there and decide for yourselves.
