Evangelia Kranioti
Exotica, Erotica, Etc.

Exotica, Erotica, Etc.

Exotica, Erotica, Etc. is a documentary body of work on wandering and desire.
After a long-term research in the Mediterranean and Brazil, Evangelia Kranioti travelled on Greek merchant ships from the Black Sea to the Pacific Ocean and from the North Pole to the Magellan Strait, across twenty countries, focusing on the love stories of sailors with prostitutes of the ports. Navigating centuries old trade routes and speaking to the universal orientation towards exploration and affection, Exotica, Erotica, Etc. is a love note to the forgotten, hidden and ignored men and women, whose long sojourns, dangerous travels and bouts of loneliness are paradoxically essential for our societies to function.

  • Photographic series
  • Documentary Feature

Exotica, Erotica, Etc. is a documentary body of work on wandering and desire.
After a long-term research in the Mediterranean and Brazil, Evangelia Kranioti travelled on Greek merchant ships from the Black Sea to the Pacific Ocean and from the North Pole to the Magellan Strait, across twenty countries, focusing on the love stories of sailors with prostitutes of the ports. Navigating centuries old trade routes and speaking to the universal orientation towards exploration and affection, Exotica, Erotica, Etc. is a love note to the forgotten, hidden and ignored men and women, whose long sojourns, dangerous travels and bouts of loneliness are paradoxically essential for our societies to function.

  • Photographic series
  • Documentary Feature

« Sailors are like terrorists. They arrive in ports with a bomb called love and throw it. And do you know what happens? The bomb explodes when they go away and they never come back, destroying the hearts of all the girls in the neighborhood. How strange… To love somebody who pays you… »

The documentary feature Exotica, Erotica, Etc. (73') premiered at the Berlinale Forum in 2015 to critical acclaim. The film's non-linear narrative embraces the rhythm of merchant ships in perpetual motion and unfolds like a landscape : Sandy, a retired Chilean woman of the night, reflects on encounters with past lovers long gone, perhaps lost at sea. We listen to her as she longs for one to return and fulfill the final romantic chapter of her life. The voice of an old Greek captain coming from afar – the solitude of the ocean or a hotel room in an unknown port – becomes an echo to her monologue. Together, they weave a dense discussion on longing, memory and loss.

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