Xénophon Tsoumas
How the alphabet turned bleu - Film - 25min - 2017
presented as part of the exhibition panorama 19
Film
The A is yellow and Sunday is red, a man thinks
while typing on a typewriter.
When Ariadne leaves Luc, he no longer sees
colours in the same way.
His perception becomes synesthetic, associating
colours and sensations, drastically changing
his memories of his life with Ariadne and his
perception of time.
Shot in a continuous take and combining filmed
and modelled images, How the alphabet turned
blue is a journey through the memory of a
character who attempts to evade it.
Xénophon Tsoumas
Born in Agrinio, in Greece, Xenophon Tsoumas studied cinema at the Faculty of Fine Arts of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
A meticulous and perfectionist researcher, Xenophon has an erotic relationship with the camera lens and considers that the dimensions of lenses are as important as the approach to actors. According to him, the range of lenses in combination with movement can also provoke a change in the context of a work. Concerning sound direction, he says that, “sound tells the story of what is not included in the frame, and the music tells the story of what is not included in the sound.”
His film Marmaga was presented at the 20th International Film Festival of Athens, in 2014.
He currently lives and works between France and Greece.
Production
Acknowledgments
Saïd Afifi
Bruno Nuytten
Daniel Dobbels
Pablo Valbuena
Ewan J. Golder
Shirley Bruno
François Bonenfant
