UTOPIA. The Poetics of Borders: Berlin – Nicosia

The beginning. A one-take shot, images of Famagusta, as Pyrros Theofanopoulos recites the text of Niki Marangou, while the gaze of Niovi Charalambous describes the dead city. Composing images and secret connotations that map out the signs of people as they travel, following the routes of memory. Words flow across divided grounds and lands of exile, yearning to overcome separation lines and borders. Niki in Cyprus, Niki in Berlin. In the film UTOPIA. The Poetics of Borders: Berlin – Nicosia, images become rootings, cultural deviations with no beginning or end, a kind of metastasis that forms the unity of the Mediterranean Sea. Through the verbal paths that run through the divided city of Nicosia, claiming the freedom of creativity, poetess Niki Marangou reflects the flows of immigration, human wandering and displacement, as well as the umbilical cord between memory and journey.