Synopsis

How does inspiration come about? Where does it start and where does it end? Stardust is a short, philosophical film that wants to imitate the moment of inspiration, without end, without beginning. An actress gives an interview to promote some movie that is about to come out in theaters. Her answers turn into an inner existential search through the cinema. How have memories been imprinted on humanity? The technology of each decade has created through cinema the image that our collective memory has for each era. Stardust is a cassette-diary on an interstellar journey of some people in one corner of the universe who realized they existed. Spyros Maltezos is directing his first short film, with a single character. With influences from Neorealism, the Nouvelle Vag movement and pop art, he wants to create memories and a climate of nostalgia for something we have not experienced. The main features of the film are improvisation, real lighting, continuous flow of speech, dialectical montage and clear control of the material by the “dialogue” of the actor and director, he manages to build an atmospheric emotional deconstruction.