Deree student Aggelos Bousbouras saw his senior project selected for screening at the Athens Video Art Festival 2007, which took place from April 27-29.

Bousbouras, who goes under the nickname of “Substant,” competed with 1200 submissions from all over the world, from which 400 were selected for presentation based on their creativity and originality.

The project, supervised by Professor Christina Polyzou, is a video clip named ” Neuronal Forest ” that depicts a forest being paralleled with the human brain in the context of a dream. The movie was constructed using original footage and still images from a digital artist. Bousbouras used a first-person angle.

The music used in the movie comes from Bousbouras’ band, “Abstruse,” an experimental progressive metal group for which Bousbouras plays the guitar and does the vocals.

“Deree gave me the boost I needed to make my work the best I could and I’m glad it paid off,” said Bousbouras.