Anamesa animates the last page of a young girl’s journal, just before she enters her teens. The story is narrated by her future self, and it takes place in Ouranoupolis, on the boarders of Mount Athos where women are prohibited from entering. Through a collage of images and words, in this setting, Anamesa explores the boarders of childhood and adolescence.
Esmeralda Momferratou (b. 1991, Athens, Greece) is an artist and filmmaker based in Athens, Greece. She holds a BA in Performance Design and Practice, from Central Saint Martins, London (2014, first-class honours) and completed her Erasmus at the NYU Tisch School of the Arts. She is an MA Fine Arts Digital candidate at Central Saint Martins.
Her work is predominantly oriented around video and documentary, while it includes a range of other media such as installation, painting, and performance. The constant dialogue between the visual arts and filmmaking informs and shapes her practice.
Selected exhibitions/festivals include ROOMS2021, Kappatos Gallery, Greece; Prospect, RAUM Gallery, UK; TSA_PDF x SVA, Tiger Strikes Asteroid NYC; Video Art Miden Festival, Greece; Mykonos Biennale, Greece; Thessaloniki International Film Festival, Greece; Drama Film Festival, Greece; Secret Cinema, UK; as well as Dance Umbrella Festival, UK.
From 2016-2019 she worked at Faliro House Productions as the Manager of the Sundance Mediterranean Screenwriters Lab. She has worked on film productions internationally, in close collaboration with independent filmmakers such as Ira Sachs, Desiree Akhavan, and Athina Rachel Tsangari.
