Through Craigslist, an internationally active internet network, performance artist Samira Elagoz arranges one-on-one meetings with a wide variety of men in three cities and explores how the camera influences intimacy between two strangers: The documentarian and the subject. The set up is simple - she brings a camera, and films how they get to know each other. Every encounter is real and unscripted. Weaving her own presence in and out of the various scenes, she becomes part of the narrative. Instead of making a film she enters one. It makes little difference in which part of the world her subjects are living – they are all lonely in some way, shape or form.
Craigslist Allstars
A film by
Samira Elagoz
Biography
Samira Elagoz (1989, Helsinki) is a Finnish/Egyptian artist currently based in Amsterdam. She graduated as a choreography BA from the Amsterdam University of the Arts in July 2016. For the last years she has meticulously explored the possibilities of encounters with strangers through screens, lenses and cyberspace. In 2014 Elagoz won the visual art competition Blooom Award in Cologne out of 1200 applicants, with her first short film Four Kings. In 2016 her performance/documentary Cock, Cock.. Who’s There? won the André Veltkamp Award.
Filmography
- The Young and the Willing (2017)
- Craigslist Allstars (2016)
- Four Kings (2014)
