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.

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 the Goethe Institut in Dublin, Ireland and at the Crespo Haus in Frankfurt, Germany. Her debut feature-length documentary, Dear Future, premiered at the 28th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival and won the Golden Alexander in the Film Forward Competition.

Point A explore la manière dont notre dépendance au GPS et aux systèmes de navigation numérique révèle une érosion plus large de l’attention, de la confiance et des savoirs incarnés.

Autrefois, s’orienter relevait de la perception, de la mémoire et de l’intuition. Aujourd’hui, cette fonction est progressivement déléguée aux algorithmes, nous éloignant de l’expérience sensorielle et de notre conscience de l’espace. Cette transformation réduit notre capacité d’attention, remplace la confiance en soi par une dépendance à des systèmes opaques et affaiblit notre relation corporelle au monde.

En envisageant la navigation comme une pratique de présence, de confiance et de connexion, le film nous rappelle la nécessité de nous autoriser à nous perdre.

Christiana Cheiranagnostaki est une cinéaste basée à Athènes qui travaille depuis de nombreuses années, en tant que productrice, sur des enjeux sociaux tels que la crise des réfugiés syriens et la crise économique grecque. Parmi ses projets notables figurent le documentaire interactif The Beggar ainsi que les courts métrages The Day Humans Left et June Notes.

Son court métrage Here Again a été présenté au festival documentaire In Situ Realities Eleusis Documentary Festival, tandis que son travail plus récent, Throughs and Throughs, a été montré au Goethe-Institut de Dublin ainsi qu’au Crespo Haus de Francfort. Son premier long métrage documentaire, Dear Future, a été présenté en première au 28e Festival international du documentaire de Thessalonique, où il a remporté le Golden Alexander dans la compétition Film Forward.

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.

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 the Goethe Institut in Dublin, Ireland and at the Crespo Haus in Frankfurt, Germany. Her debut feature-length documentary, Dear Future, premiered at the 28th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival and won the Golden Alexander in the Film Forward Competition.