Filmmaker Statement

Director’s Statement The film “In Cold Love” (“Agapi en psychro”) was created as an academic project for the HOU courses SKI51 (Cinematography 2) and SKI42 (Editing 2). The brief required: (a) a stable, common lighting setup using available light and practical sources, (b) static frame compositions, and (c) a single narrative situation filmed with different focal lengths, emphasizing how perspective — and therefore visual storytelling — changes. At the editing stage, the assignment called for the use of elliptical editing and a documented organization of cuts (cut, fade, J/L-cuts) so that rhythm would serve emotion and action. With these constraints, I chose an interior, low-key story: a woman living inside small lies and gradual emotional isolation. The different focal lengths (16mm / 30mm) are not used as simple “shot changes,” but as a dramaturgical tool of perspective: the wide shots, in the static setups, “shrink” the protagonist inside the space; the closer shots with the 30mm