Maros Foto

In the early 2000s, Maria Nikolaidou takes a photograph on the ""Panzerwiese"" in Munich: two little boys are playing war. An angel wraps his arms protectively around them. What we don't see at first glance: the angel is pregnant. On a hill in the background stands a person who appears to be watching the scene. Twenty-three years later, her son Alexandros uses the very same camera his mother used back then to make a film about this photograph. Through conversations with his mother and the figures in the photograph, he returns to the location where the picture was taken and attempts to reconstruct the stories behind the image. In this photo-film, the visible and hidden protagonists of the image come to life under Alexandros' gaze, opening up an intimate reflection on the stories of photography: What can be told through a photograph? What realities can imagination and projection evoke? What if all the figures in the image have a right to their own perspective? In ""Maro's Photo"", photographs, conversations and narrative voices interweave in a playful manner to form a bridge between the present and the past, memory and fiction, the private and the political, imagination and the everyday. And finally, Maria Nikolaidou takes a new photograph.