ONE
Channel: Peter Stephanou
Date: 2019-03-21

My name is Peter Stephanou and I am an independent filmmaker based in Paphos. As an artist and son of a refugee displaced by war from Cyprus, my work aims to lay foundations on creating an informed and inquisitive younger generation, whom I hope will build on this as they become adults. I aim to direct work that inspires and promotes individuals into action for positive change. 
Art Community Film: ONE
Cyprus is a beautiful island that has now been divided by war for 40 years, and is to this day the only divided capital in the world, with no solution in sight. We are divided by a line drawn in the land and by the notion of the 'other', Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots that lived side by side before the war now live segregated in the 'North' and 'South' of Cyprus. With each day that passes and each generation that do not remember having each other as neighbours, the notion of the other becomes more detached and vilified. This is why I asked people from all over the island to send me a specific minute of their day, all on the same day.
Watch, feel and most of all listen to this short experimental film that asks, are we so different? The similarities speak for themselves; the island should be more united by its people, not divided by them, so why can't we live as ONE?