XYZ, Greece 2020-2021, 45´
The XYZ trilogy introduces a diaristic chronicle around the injured body, pain, mourning, obsessive thoughts and the inability to communicate. Veronique and Filtig build a complex relational drama where family trauma meets the post-apocalyptic despair of the ‘end times’. In the three films, we observe the troubled relationship between a son who needs his mother’s care and a mother who craves for the son’s love: they create the image of each other as a reflection of their needs only to then attack, deconstruct and re-assemble in endless cycles of love, aggression, solipsistic madness. Shot over the three months of the Athenian summer lockdown, the trilogy takes us to a claustrophobic journey at the sweaty heart of covid-19 suffocating domesticity.
200 Years of Veronique, Greece 2021, 6´
Veronique invites us to a completely personal tour of a post-apocalyptic room landscape. Through a psychoanalytic orgasm of improvisations, the Greek collective unconscious explodes and Veronique guides us in its ruins: rubbish, fragments, family memories, remnants of national narratives. Veronique celebrates the 200th anniversary of the greek Revolution by making love to trash, deconstructing school poems and falling into an ecstasy / exorcism of a paternal figure who is both tyrannical and absent - a ghost that is a fantasy and a source of horror. The nation goes through the trauma of family and the rubbish becomes the only ally against the unbearable demands of normativity.
Cruella's TV, Greece 2023, 12´
Cruella's TV was an online broadcasting experiment created by Veronique Tromokratisch and her daughter Cruella amidst the dystopian times of the first lockdown. Ιt was positioned as a weekly avant-garde alternative to the binge consumption of pop streamers that took over everyone’s lives during that period. The performative interactions of Cruella and Veronique interrogate the current state of (anti)social media, affect, trauma and non-diegetic drama, cross-referential messthetics and new age primitivism. Something between a fever dream and a deranged puppet show, it takes its audience on a trance-inducing post-internet journey. Dreamlands presents a series of extracts from the broadcasts.
texts by Foivos Dousos