Video Works | Maria Maneos
Selected short-form videos, moving-image experiments, and digital collages made between 2020-2026.
These works combine found footage, popular music, performance, fantasy spaces, humor, and visual remixing, moving between play, atmosphere, and reimagined pop-cultural memory.
Explore more of Maria Maneos’s artwork in the Sculptures or Paintings section.
Feeling Nature
Combining personal and found images with evocative sound effects, this digital story weaves an ephemeral and dreamy narrative. Engaging and enticing, the video invites viewers into a mesmerizing experience that is richly open to interpretation. It is a unique visual journey where each frame tells a part of a captivating story, leaving you to uncover its hidden meanings.
Walken / Rapper’s Delight, 2026
Short-form video, found footage re-edit, sound
A re-edited dance sequence originally made for Fatboy Slim’s “Weapon of Choice,” re-timed and rearranged to sync with “Rapper’s Delight” by The Sugarhill Gang. The work plays with pop-cultural memory, rhythm, substitution, and the strange pleasure of seeing a familiar performance fall into a new beat.
Cave Life, 2026
Short-form video, digital collage, sound
A dreamlike cave interior opens onto a luminous fantasy landscape, blending grotto imagery, flowers, domestic decoration, and theatrical escape. The work imagines an interior space as a portal, somewhere between shelter, stage set, and impossible retreat.
Pretty Little Babies, 2026
Short-form video, found footage / social video re-edit, sound
Orphaned lambs jump and play in a meadow and inside a softly decorated home with buttercream walls and a floral sofa. Set to Connie Francis’s “Pretty Little Baby,” the work leans into sweetness, care, and the theatrical charm of domestic space, turning a rescue-center scene into a small pastoral daydream. Original lamb footage from Sophie Conran, featuring lambs from a rescue center for orphaned lambs.
Everyday, 2026
Short-form video, digital collage / edited montage, sound
A gloved hand reaches toward a glass of wine on a beautifully set table in nature, followed by a dark pink flower blooming, a woman cutting grass with a machete-like tool, fluttering leaves, grapevines, and other fragments of outdoor life. Set to “Everyday” by A$AP Rocky featuring Rod Stewart, the work moves through gestures of pleasure, labor, growth, and atmosphere, turning collected scenes into a rhythmic meditation on beauty and daily ritual.
Short-Form Works on TikTok
Selected short-form videos and sound-based clips. Click thumbnails to view on TikTok.
These videos are presented as a selected archive of short-form works and experiments. Some pieces are hosted on Vimeo, while others remain linked to TikTok where the original platform context, sound, timing, or post format is part of the work.
View more short-form video works on TikTok at @riemaneos or follow me on Instagram @mmaneos