40 Second Preview of Christodolous Panayiotou

Cyprus-born, Berlin-based Christodoulos Panayiotou is an artist who works across a range of media, including video, photography and sound installations, frequently enlisting the help of musicians and actors. As most of you may know, he will be coming to the University of Delaware next month to give a workshop and other activities TBD. In the meanwhile, here's a 40 second clip that I'm sure won't really clarify anything, but just some food for thought.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCe_8hWwO0k

Panayiotou is represented by the actor Max Mackintosh who wears a fetching jumper covered in Rupert in the Bear motifs. He reads a whimsical piece outlining the thematic similarities between childrens classic Mary Poppins and Pier Paolo Pasolinis decidedly more adult film Teorema (1968), in which a mysterious young man arrives at the home of a bourgeois family and affects the lives of all within. In-between mini-critiques of each film, he picks up a guitar and sings songs from Mary Poppins, including Just a Spoonful of Sugar, emphasising its ornithological themes, and later Lets Go Fly a Kite a hymn, he says, to the aesthetics of resolution.