video, 30min / A big screen separated in two. A split screen. Two faces - man and a woman, the faces of the authors. Both of them are looking straight into the camera. The camera does not move. At the first minutes nothing happens. The viewer has an illusion they are looking at him. They observe him… They are expecting something from him… Suddenly water slaps the face of one of them. The slaps alternate between the one and the other. Some of water slaps are very strong and painful. The lighting changes as if the day is passing. The sound track was created from sound samples recorded from everyday life in conjunction and mixed with a music composed by Heinz Weber. In Wet Contact, operating with language close to minimalism, the authors drive the spectators to recognize almost physically the aggression, the loneliness, observing the male and female reaction, pressing them to ask basic questions about existence in contemporary society.

• 2009 two days'distance video, 21min / This documentary revolves around the incredible destiny of two illiterate sixty-year-old Bulgarian farmers (husband and wife), who have chosen to replace a miserable life on the verge of destitution in their village with the insecure yet promising existence of buskers in downtown Paris. Through a series of carefully selected and arranged questions the reporter’s voice-over elicits responses that leave the viewer with a number of conflicting interpretations. It is difficult to decide whether one is to perceive this couple as featuring the backwardness of a Balkan culture; or as one of the last examples of Rousseau’s noble savage; or as self-reliant individuals who have preserved the American spirit of the frontier. lol

  two days'distance

  
• 2007 Desire and Resistance ... video, 7min / In the opening frames of this video we see an almost indiscernible object in a tiny square of light surrounded by the infinite blackness of the rest of the screen. As the square grows larger and larger, we realize that this is a tangle of rags at the end of a rope drifting in the frothy wake of a ship. The aesthetic impact of the image is partly due to the lack of an easily identifiable purpose behind this “event”. What intensifies the sense of uncertainty is the banging of the object against the ship’s invisible iron body. The echo sounds like the beating of a drum but the regular rhythm reminds one of a human heartbeat. Thus the viewer is left hovering on the precarious borderline between the inorganic and the organic. At the end of the video, the object goes out of focus and ends up engulfed by the froth around it. The image is blurred but the ubiquitous beatings keep coming against the background of the restored blackness of the screen. lol

  Desire and Resistance ...

  
• 2005 How near so far video, 4,02min / The upward movement of the camera in black and white is following across the field the nervous race of a person. The camera wants to “observe” the running person, to frame it, to show it, to discover it through its gaze, for the gaze’s sake. Little by little the image finds its colour. The obsessive rhythm of the music is accelerating to sufficiency while the race goes on, the focus point - the running legs, becoming the object of desire. What do we expect from our desires? Is this video capable of catching the pray? But where the race goes? The camera is unstable; it staggers, comes closer or immediately goes away, branch off, threatens to fall exactly like the bear legs of the running woman. Recorded at the grass level, the uneven trajectory of this race will it lead to a dead end? lol

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• 2004 let's have some fun video, 4.42min / The sound of a beating heart. The viewer sees a moving abstraction - perhaps water, perhaps micro-organisms. Suddenly, the sounds of a beating heart are replaced by "hardtek" trance techno music. We are aurally whisked away into the club scene. The image is still abstract. The light, which follows the musical rhythm and is constantly changing colour and brightness, puts us in a carefree party mood. The image is ever-changing, the colours follow suit. Gradually, the image materializes, it seems that we can recognize the outlines of moving, living entities. The camera never stops its movement. The colours disappear, the music stops, the viewer is faced, much like after waking up from a late night binge, with a horrifying reality - he has been witnessing countless ants mercilessly devouring a grasshopper.... lol

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• 2004 0,039225 Arabic digits - 0.039225, 1/30, 3.39% - that reflect the ratios between the territory of the Balkans and the rest of the World's landmass are presented on a screen. The white numbers pulsate on black background. The sound consist voice of different people pronouncing the ratios between the Balkans and the World's landmass one after other in each languages of the Balkans countries. All questions and problems regarding the aforementioned Balkans and the rest of the World are thus synthesized by the authors by the ratio between the corresponding numbers. lol

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• 2003 One, Several, Many ... video, 23,40min / Provoked by the mythological travels of Odysseus, as well as the vernacular use of the word "odyssey," the authors invite people from different nationalities to discuss the topic. All speak their native language - Greek, French, Bulgarian, English, Spanish...,they share differing points of view on the subject matter, while quoting parts of the original or interpreting the classical verse. The participants touch upon different aspects of the epic journey - the mental, physical, travel, travel into the past, or in the everyday life. The authors' goal is not to generalize, but rather to expose the variety based on the individuality. lol

  One, Several, Many ...

  
• 2003 currency The title appear on the screen and simultaneously appear a voice announcing the actually currency rate. video, 6min / Many layers of a vertical lines floating on the screen drive the look of the spectator. From the lower part of the screen to up gradually appears a face. We may see the eyes in very forth plane, the nose the mouth, next person and the next on going in vertical motion one over spilling in another The camera follow out the necks, the breasts the sex, women’s and man’s. The layers of the floating lines passing on top of the body make the shapes even more tender, sensitive and strong in his personality, beautiful, and pure in his nakedness. In contrast with the body the unprejudiced voice continue to announce the currency rate. currency- the state of being in general use. lol

  currency

  
• 2002 wetcontact video, 30min / A big screen separated in two. A split screen. Two faces - man and a woman, the faces of the authors. Both of them are looking straight into the camera. The camera does not move. At the first minutes nothing happens. The viewer has an illusion they are looking at him. They observe him… They are expecting something from him… Suddenly water slaps the face of one of them. The slaps alternate between the one and the other. Some of water slaps are very strong and painful. The lighting changes as if the day is passing. The sound track was created from sound samples recorded from everyday life in conjunction and mixed with a music composed by Heinz Weber. In Wet Contact, operating with language close to minimalism, the authors drive the spectators to recognize almost physically the aggression, the loneliness, observing the male and female reaction, pressing them to ask basic questions about existence in contemporary society. lol

  wetcontact