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Sylvia Nicolaides
Born in 1984, Sylvia Nicolaides originally
trained in education focusing on the visual arts
and received a Bachelor’s Degree from the
University of Cyprus and aMaster’s Degree from
the University of Exeter in the UK. In 2010 she
received her Bachelor’s Fine Arts Degree from
Chelsea College of Art and Design (University
of the Arts) London and her second Master’s
Degree in Audio-Visual Studies in the Academy
of Performing Arts, in the Film and Television
department (FAMU) in Prague, Czech Republic.
She participated in several group art exhibitions
and her films were screened at several film
festivals both in Cyprus and internationally. In
2011 she was short-listed at the Façade Video
Festival in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. In 2013 she
participated in the exhibition
Catharsis/Rebirth
in Paphos, Cyprus and co-directed a short film
presentation from it, which was selected and
presented in the Louvre Museum in Paris as part
of theMichelangelo Pistoletto’s exhibition
Annee
Un – Le Paradis Sur Terre
. In 2014 she directed
the 3D video art
Airground
which premiered at
the 3D Korea Film Festival in Seoul and was
awarded with the Jury’s Special Prize. In the
same year she co-directed the mockumentary
Salvador
and in 2015 the documentary
Cementography
a three-year project.
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Film stills
‘Dionysus’ - Christos Foukaras, Mariam Souhanova 1984
‘Lovers’ - Costas Economou 1991
