Tektite on ERT3: When Grief Becomes Matter

In February, my short film Tektite will be broadcast on ERT3, as part of a late-night programme dedicated to Greek short films. It will be its first television screening, and I’m quietly happy to see it find a new life in this context, drifting into living rooms, after midnight.

Tektite follows Sevasti, a woman whose ordinary domestic space is interrupted when a meteorite crashes into her living room. What begins as shock slowly turns into fascination, attachment, and finally intimacy. As the days pass, Sevasti withdraws from her friends, her work, and the familiar world around her, forming a strange bond with the growing black stone. The meteorite becomes a companion, a shelter, a mirror, and eventually, in her eyes, a reincarnation of her deceased husband.

The film is less interested in explaining the phenomenon than in staying with Sevasti’s experience: grief as something physical, heavy, magnetic. Loss that does not move on, but settles in, expands, and quietly reorganizes space, time, and desire. The living room becomes a site of transformation, where mourning slips into devotion, and devotion into disappearance.

Tektite is a film about surrender rather than resolution, about choosing proximity to the impossible instead of returning to what is considered “normal.”

The broadcast takes place alongside three other short films by Greek filmmakers, each carrying its own distinct voice. I’m grateful for the shared space, and for the invitation to linger a little longer in the dark. 📽 Saturday, 7 February — 00:20

Hunter (2024) by Pavlos Sifakis

📽 Saturday, 14 February — 00:30

Tektite (2024) by Smaragda Nitsopoulou

📽 Saturday, 21 February — 00:30

Prova Paltou by Ilias Dimitriou

📽 Saturday, 28 February — 00:35

The Silence of the Fish When They Die by Vasilis Kekatos

ERT3 — Saturday, February 14, after midnight Press release