Chrysanthi Theodosi

A celebrity model couple are invited on a luxury cruise for the uber-rich, helmed by an unhinged, alcoholic captain. What first appears Instagrammable ends catastrophically, leaving the survivors stranded on a desert island in a struggle of hierarchy.

A short film that reexamines the meaning of the ancient Greek myth of transformation in the context of a supposedly "perfect" society, in which love (regardless of sexual orientation) is considered an act of anarchy and subversion of norms. Anyone who breaks the rules and falls in love is punished on their 25th birthday by shedding their human status and being transformed into a plant or animal of their choice. Transfiguration abolishes the historicity of the human body and the limits imposed upon it, as man puts on the body of the species into which he was transfigured and acquires the status and eternity of the species into which he was transfigured.

Orestes and Ismini fell in love at first sight. He is an artist, a painter and a poet. She is a young girl, just graduated from the university, in search for love, wisdom and completion. They spend most of their time in Oreste’s atelier, in the centre of Athens. When a serious illness is knocking on their door, they both realize, that destiny, is something complicated and the human mind usually ignores it.