To Je To – That’s All

Death is an inevitable moment in life that the fear and sadness it evokes makes it a moment to be forgotten. We try to eliminate the thoughts and memories of death, make it disappear.

The people who perform daily the depressive procedure of funerals follow inevitably the same fate. We don’t notice them, we don’t care about them, we don’t wish to meet them. They are the “black sheep”, as one of them describes the usual prejudiced attitude towards them.

In trying to bring them out of their forced inexistence, the film is allowing their voices to be heard and is describing a day in the cemetery through their eyes, retelling the story of funerals, not by the already known sad experience of their participants, but through the unknown incidents occurring daily between their sentimentally detached performers (the chapel workers, the gravediggers and the crematorium staff).

Death‘s consequence is the material dissolution of human body. Wishing to transgress our stereotypical idea that cemetery workers are symbols of death, the film exposes the temporality of the material world and reveals the way the workers use their close experience with death to celebrate the immortal spirit of life.

Vasiliki Akritidou

Vasiliki Akritidou was born in Thessaloniki, Greece, in 1976.
She studied architecture in the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and graduated in 2001. She did her Master studies in the Goldsmiths College, University of London, in Visual Anthropolgy and graduated in 2006.
“That’s all” is her first film completed as part of her diploma thesis.