Louisa Stylianides
Louisa is studying (BA) Fine Art at Kingston University. She is a painter, a filmmaker and a poet. Her materials are mostly paint, mirrors, as well as devises that she designs in order to give her work a unique spin. Louisa’s work is concerned with the issues of the hidden, the backstage and the universal problems we know about but ignore in order to remain in our comfort zone.
Louisa Stylianide’s film Spotlight deals with the relationship of language and image by mismatching the audio and video scenes that feature in her work. Louisa explores the hidden not only by her secretly filmed video but also through her game with language. By attaching language to a different image she looks at a variety of translations and meaning produced.
Furthermore the device she used to film with, both emphasizes on the ambiguous, hidden side of the image and issues of the film as well as suggests the ideas of discovery or things brought to light. These contradictions are also reflected in the way she uses image and language as contradicting elements. These two elements of the film produce a new discourse between sound and image, while escaping the ‘original’ form in which films are usually presented.