When the sun goes down, I raise my head as I hear the sound of birds flying between the apartment buildings. I had noticed that at this specific time, birds start talking. There is a lot of noise over the city. But something different happened the other day. I heard a noise from the opposite balcony. I saw that a bird was trapped and his friend was trying to save it. It covered the voices of all the other birds in the sky. I tried to help them but I could not. Then I saw you through the window. My heart was beating fast, like a bird’s that has been caught by a human and it is very scared. I shouted at you but you did not hear. I left you a note. You are gone. I still have the note. There is a place between ciMes and the skies. I like going there again and again. From this place the birds begin to fly over the cities. We are all so much the same and so different under the same sky. In the early days of radar, echoes of many, small targets were seen but poorly understood. These echoes were called “angels”. Now, we know that the angels were actually birds.
This project is dedicated to my “angels”.
Alexandra
Alexandra Riba is a photographer/cinematographer born (1997) in Thessaloniki, Greece.
She is a graduate of the School of Film Studies at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She has studied contemporary photography in Stereosis school of photography.
Her first solo exhibition, “Between CiMes and Skies”, was part of the Thessaloniki PhotoBiennale 2023. She has also exhibited her photographs in important art spaces in Greece and abroad.
As a cinematographer, she collaborated with director Nikos Kolioukos on the short film “The Chaos She Left Behind”, which was part of the official selecMon at the Festival de Cannes 2024 and won the 2nd Prize La Cinef. She also worked with Syllas Tzoumerkas on the short film “My Mother is a Saint”, selected for the Locarno Film Festival 2023 – Pardi di Domani. She was selected as a Sarajevo Talent for 2024 (Sarajevo Film Festival).