Speed, scale, ambition.
Shanghai
Shanghai represents modern city energy: fast movement, business density, innovation, skyline power, and the feeling of a place always moving toward the next version of itself.
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Shanghai energy and Limassol lifestyle.
Travel shapes the way I see the work I make. Running Periti Studios from Cyprus, I spend a lot of time thinking about how a place's energy, pace, and light end up in the frame, and few contrasts have stuck with me like the one between Shanghai and Limassol.
Shanghai hits you with scale. It is fast, modern, and relentlessly forward-looking. From the towers of Pudong to the density of its streets, the city has a momentum that is hard to find anywhere else: the feeling of a place always building the next version of itself. For anyone drawn to visual ambition, it is an easy city to fall for.
Limassol works on me in the opposite way. It is a Mediterranean coastal city that happens to be full of people from everywhere, working in technology, finance, shipping, and creative work, yet it never loses its calm. The sea is always close. The pace leaves room to think. After a stretch in a megacity, that balance is its own kind of luxury.
What I like about holding the two side by side is that they answer different questions. Shanghai asks how big and how fast. Limassol asks how well you actually want to live while you do the work. Both have shaped how I think about building an independent studio that can move quickly without burning out.
Neither city is a film project, and this page isn't pretending otherwise. It is simply part of the wider picture behind Periti Studios, the places and perspectives that feed into how I direct, produce, and look at the world before any of it reaches a screen.
