“This Is Not A Statue” is a medium-length documentary that attempts to document the lives of the heroes’ statues of the Greek Revolution (1821) situated in the Athenian park of Pedion of Areos.

Using tools such as observation, conotation and imagination, a narrative composition of 21 portraits of heroes emerges. Through silent narration and the use of subtitles, the statues “talk” about everything that surrounds them, share information about their lives and the lives of the sculptors who created them. They retrieve memories, facts, archival material and personal letters, in an attempt to align with the present time.

After the 200 year anniversary (2021) of the Greek Revolution and several commemorial events that followed, “This Is Not A Statue” (2022) attempts to raise considerations regarding the notions of representation, historicity, form and content. It’s a documentary driven by an urgent need to glorify life and express the despair of death and oblivion.

“It is everything that a statue cannot only be.”