Gianni Kazakis
- Director
- Cinematographer
- Editor
Gianni Kazakis (b. 1998) is a Greek-American artist. His work examines the color experience as it relates to human-defined consciousness within the context of phenomenology and color psychology. He holds a BFA from the Florence State Academy of Fine Arts in Italy, where he studied Visual Arts with a focus on color psychology within the context of phenomenology, while receiving a fully funded scholarship. Throughout his work, he uses monochrome as a key to unlocking human emotions under the phenomenological approach of color. His environment recreations suggest how the extraordinary can be staged and transformed from the ordinary, serving as a scenographic device for self understanding and self realization. Most of his work remains untitled and are instead given a unique serial number. This approach allows viewers to question their role in space uninfluenced by a title; are we casual or actively engaged observers? As a Greek American who grew up in a religious and conservative environment, this question was of utmost importance to him. As a result, he tries to push the boundaries of observers to question what they are actually seeing through a color experience. He counters viewing entropy by introducing a subtle monochrome order to chaotic emotions. Inspired by color psychology, he leaves enough space for viewers to create their own reality.