Loukia-Alavanou-2023-140X148-English-for-web

New Horizons - Pilot New Horizons is a restless search for new opportunities, and new ways for living. The mystery and the promise of distant horizons has always called men forward. First wondering, then searching, then continuing to explore, men have moved on and on, always to find that old horizons open the way to new horizons. Fragment from the voiceover of the film To New Horizons, 1940 Taking as a departure point both the conceptual and technological strategies of the futuristic film To New Horizons produced for the Futurama exhibition in 1940, New Horizons - Pilot is a virtual reality artist’s film that belongs to a series of new works divided into two parts ( New Horizons- Pilot and New Horizon - Aviatrix ) presented as an audiovisual installation which will echo the current restrictions of movement of populations in today's global Western geopolitical landscape, particularly in, through and around Greece. Futurama is widely held to have first introduced the American public to the concept of a network of expressways connecting the nation, while the propaganda film To New Horizons was attempting to implant the belief that a free-flowing movement of people and goods across nations is the future of modern life and the "'passport" to prosperity. New Horizons – Pilot consists of virtual reality shots of dystopic modern Greek industrial landscapes, such as a derelict oil factory on the outskirts of Attika, the abandoned Hellinikon airport, highways, railways and seaways, such as a seascape contaminated with oil at an abandoned port that functions as a dump site for ferries in Elefsina. I assembled the footage with images of caged wild birds and auditory found footage fragments. This allegorical use of animals, inspired by Goya’s depictions of birds in Disasters of War , serves as a metaphor