To see and to be seen: zooming into the life of Athenian balconers and exploring the space between private and public. Composed of the interviews that the directors hold with Athenians sitting on their balconies, the film explores different meanings that people assign to balconies amidst the daily urban grind.
Renata Kotti-Domprets
Renata Kotti-Domprets holds a degree in political science from the University of Athens. Her academic interests include social issues, investigating areas of political culture and understanding the theories and frameworks within which we can study society. After graduation, she started working in the documentary format. She is focused on investigating the convergence of anthropology, documentary filmmaking, and interactive media. With her academic background in Political Analysis along with her strong interest in audiovisual forms, her extroverted nature and her critical ability, she hopes to highlight complex social issues and to participate in social welfare projects.
Saskia Jaschek
Saskia is a Ph.D. candidate in anthropology at the University of Bayreuth in Germany. Conducting social movement and protest research, Saskia’s main research interests include political subjectivation, political affects and emotions, narratives and identities of social movements, intersubjective dynamics of street protests, and practices of resistance. Saskia’s Ph.D. project is concerned with Sudan’s revolutionary movement and its resistance to the 2021 military coup d’état. In this regard, Saskia engages with both research of activism as well as activist research. Further, Saskia conducts public anthropology by publishing journalistic texts about Sudan.
Zuzanna Ściborska
Originally from Poland and located in Amsterdam, Zuzanna is an interdisciplinary social scientist who has recently begun working with visual forms. Passionate about an array of social causes, she spends her time writing and engaging with grassroots activism. She is a strong believer in opening academia to new audiences and forms, and an advocate for combining participatory research with art. Her curious nature combined with critical thinking and sensitivity allows her to engage with others and co-produce knowledge through meaningful and reflexive connections.