This handmade silent film is a sociopolitical satire of our everyday life in Cyprus. Pentadaktylos, the legendary mountain, is going for a stroll at the Greek-Cypriot side of the island only to get crushed by ugly tall buildings that come in its way. In this imaginary and comical journey I try to show the impossible. A mountain that impatiently now is seeking its people, and suddenly breaks free. The tall buildings, as social indifference, vanity and bad taste, tear the mountain down and throw it to infinity. The figures that resemble and compose Pentadaktylos are the Cypriot people who are lost along with their tradition but also with everything that they already lost. Mediterranean Landscape is made out of old and new postcards, photographs, fabrics and found film strips which were turned into ‘landscape strips’ through leaf and flower gluing and traditional pattern drawing.

Direction, Animation, Production: Christiana Ioannou