“Islands of Time” is an artistic exploration which started in Sfendyli, a once inhabited village in Crete that now lies partially submerged beneath water.

The video was shot over a period of a month and a half. A character is filmed from afar walking along the perimeter of the roof of a house which has now crumbled to the ground. She enters and exits the doors of once-inhabited dwellings in a perpetual movement that seeks to reactivate the memory of this place.

An iron sculpture acts as a container for the projection. In it, lies water. Inevitably, the water and iron react – there is erosion, a transformation which affects not only the container, but the image itself. Moving imagine is given a double meaning. The white light breaking through the black rusted iron sculpture here becomes the sum of utopias lived and re-counted a thousand times, shadows that wreck on the beach of memory like the relict of a ship, a lifeless body dragged tired by the slow ebb of the tide.

It is in this way that this projects challenges linear conceptions of time by treating the past, present and future as entangled. Once inhabited and now abandoned, the films creates an opening for the viewer to imagine both what could have been and what could be. From here, another question arises – what fictions emerge in order to approach what lies in one’s own memory?