Point A

Point A
By Christiana Cheiranagnostaki

synopsis

Point A explores how our reliance on GPS and digital navigation signals a broader cultural erosion of attention, trust and embodied knowledge. Navigation used to be an act of perception, memory and intuition. Today, being outsourced to algorithms, it is detaching us from sensory experience and spatial awareness. This shift narrows attention and replaces self-trust with dependence on ambiguous systems while weakening our bodily engagement with the world. Thinking of navigation as a practice of presence, confidence and connection, we are reminded that we must allow ourselves to be lost.

Biography

Christiana Cheiranagnostaki is an Athens based filmmaker working for many years on social issues such as the Syrian refugee crisis and the Greek financial crisis as a producer. Notable projects include directing the interactive documentary The Beggar and the short films The Day Humans Left and june notes. Her short film, Here Again, was screened at the In Situ Realities Eleusis Documentary Festival and recently her new work Throughs and Throughs at Goethe Institut in Dublin, Ireland and Crespo Haus in Frankfurt, Germany. Her debut feature-length documentary, Dear Future, is having its premiere at the 28th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival as part of the Film Forward Competition.