ZACHARY ROMBAKIS

(USA – EUA)

ZACHARY ROMBAKIS - In the pre-internet days, where I grew up, there was very little culture in terms of theatre, museums or galleries, but we did have cinema, from big Hollywood productions to art cinema, as well as avant-garde films from the then Eastern Bloc.

At university, I studied mainly literature and philosophy, and worked for a while as a videographer for a director who produced documentaries, which was a great learning experience.

Today, I'm grateful to be able to spend a lot of time producing experimental videos that are far from the conformity of traditional cinema. I humbly try to make films that are not trapped in the anachronistic paradigm of conventional cinema and that, I hope, convey a perspective that reflects the huma condition.

15-1S  ON THE TOWN   -  Zachary Rombakis   1ª SESSÃO | 1st SESSION

IMAGE PLAY ► International Video Art Festival - V Edition 2023 (Funchal, Madeira - Portugal)

CREDITS:

Zachary Rombakis Direted, Produced, and Visuals

SYNOPSIS:

ON THE TOWN: is an experimental video in which a woman is, regardless of the fast pace and pressing energy of the city, in a state of alienation. Her condition of despairing ennui is not mitigated by her surroundings.

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        DAS MAN                                     3'39''                              2018                      (USA – EUA)                            16:9          

20-2S   DAS MAN   -   Zachary Rombakis     2ª SESSÃO | 2nd SESSION

IMAGE PLAY ► International Video Art Festival - V Edition 2023 (Funchal, Madeira - Portugal)

CREDITS:

Zachary Rombakis  Direted, Produced, and Visuals

SYNOPSIS:

DAS MAN: is an experimental video that explores the troubling themes of the divided self and the self in relation to the mass of mankind, what Heidegger referred to as 'the they.