Ed. note: This video essay is part of a special Student Voices section devoted to documenting student responses and reflections to the COVID-19 crisis, which has had such an unprecedented effect on student lives. To see the other entries, click here

In “You are the Film I Started to Make but Never Finished,” Eleni Kalantzi, an MA student studying Film Production and Direction at the National University of Ireland Galway, exposes the inner thoughts and emotions of a student on what’s happening on the “outside.” The film project is in essence a journal turned into a visual poem, encapsulating the author’s perception of the situation and their way of coping with being away from their country and loved ones.

Eleni Kalantzi was born in Athens, Greece and graduated from the Faculty of Communication and Media Studies at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in 2018. Eleni has produced/directed the fiction short film “Strawberry Milkshake” (2019) in Athens and is currently completing an MA in Film Production and Direction at the National University of Ireland Galway. Eleni made the documentary “Don’t die with your song inside” (2019) in Galway as part of the course and is interested in portrait/landscape photography, short films, poetry, and creative writing.

no. 2, Student Voices, vol. 5July 3, 2020<July 6, 2020

You are the Film I Started to Make but Never Finished

by Eleni Kalantzi

In “You are the Film I Started to Make but Never Finished,” Eleni Kalantzi exposes the inner thoughts and emotions of a student on what’s happening on the “outside.”