Bio
Konstanza Kapsali is an Athens based filmmaker. After completing her studies in Archaeology and Heritage studies (BA, MA) she worked in numerous excavations, cultural institutions and conducted archaeological and ethnographic research in Greece, Turkey, and the Netherlands. She went on to study Visual Anthropology and Documentary Film (MA). Her first short film “Girls In Flower” featured in acclaimed International film festivals in Greece and was awarded the NIGHT Award at the 18th Signos da Noite International Film Festival in Lisbon. She is currently participating in the art project “Narrative Archaeology” by Elevsis 2023 – European Capital of Culture and the “FINDS – STORIES” research project, documenting diachronic mobility in the Balkans through creative object biographies. She has been awarded the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship by ARTWORKS (2021). From March 2022 on, she will be a PhD candidate at the LUCA School of Arts in Belgium. Her practice draws on observational cinema, sensory ethnography, and the archaeological metaphor. Her thematic focus varies, but the notions of memory, femininity, the sense of belonging, nostalgia and the unravelling of history are often recurrent.