Cheap Smokes (2000)

Renos Haralambidis: Nikos

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• Nikos : I am a collector. I collect the toughest and wildest of things... moments. When I suddenly get a desire to fly, and I have nowhere to fly to, I hide in my collection, full of coffees, boxers, dancers, random contacts, insults, tender outlaws, arcades, meetings, screams, silences, separations, words, words, words... Things will flow they way they like, anyway. Life knows. And I trust her...

• Nikos : On my radio screen, all the cities i dreamt of are waiting for me... Baghdad, Prague, New Orleans...

  Nikos : They send their sounds, through medium waves, and clouds of noise. It's one of those old radios, from when all journeys outside the city were too far... even impossible.

  Nikos : Then with just a move of the needle, you were going from Athens to Bagdad and with an even softer move from Bagdad to Tangier.

  Nikos : Perhaps in another part of the world, on another screen, someone is listening to Athens through the noise.

  Nikos : Such a distant city for him... just as distant it is for me.