Writer & Director // Nikolas Koskinas
Spending some holiday-time at my cousin's house in Monemvasia, I always used to take pictures of the castle and its surroundings. But the aura of the town wasn't depicted the way it was flowing inside me, so I decided to turn the pictures into black and white. And then it hit me. When I removed Monemvasia's colours it showed me its true colours. It always felt like a place stuck in time, a place of forgotten dreams and unfulfilled desires. It was a familiar feeling that triggered old memories of a slowly deteriorating love story of mine. The moment I saw the pictures without colour I felt the desperate need to personify this vision and put it into words.
Maria is stuck in time just like the place is. She doesn't care to move forward, she just wants to stay in the past she so in love with. And sometimes we all do. Don't we?
Under the Rock portrays a feeling that most people have already experienced at least once in their love lives and it aims to encapsulate longing, pain, hope and regret. It's about the soul wrenching force of wanting to repair something that cannot be undone, depicting delusion as a product of denial.
Having experienced this myself, I was always concerned with the irreversible side of life. Through Under the Rock I took the chance to provide my characters with an odd chance to escape their numbness and re-feel a long gone pleasure. The irresistible pleasure of being loved.
