Stathis Athanasiou
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Stathis Athanasiou

Film director & Visual ArtistAthens, Greece
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Stathis Athanasiou

Film director & Visual ArtistAthens, Greece
About me
I have studied Medicine, Animation and Film Direction. After quite a few short films that were screened and awarded at international film festivals, I was selected to participate at the 3rd Berlinale Talent Campus. “DOS, a love story in reverse…” (2011) was my first feature film. The film was an official selection in more than 10 international festivals (NYIIFF, Hong-Kong EFF, Gijón IFF, Thessaloniki IFF et al.) and won several awards, among them Best International Film & Audience Award at NYIFF. With “Alpha” (2015) my team and I brought crowd-funding to Greece for the first time, creating a Transmedia Cinematic Performance that blends cinema, performance and live music for the re-telling of Antigone’s myth in the 21st century. My work as a Visual Artist in contemporary theatre and performance has traveled to such prestigious festivals as Festival d’Automne á Paris, Kunsten Festival des Artes, Wiener Festwöchen, International Theatre Festival of Belo Horizonte, Cairo International Festival of Experimental Theatre, Athens & Epidaurus Festival et al. with important groups like Theseum Ensemble [Michail Marmarinos] , the Greek National Theatre, the Onassis Cultural Foundation, Theatre Group Opera [Theo Abazis] et al. In the summer of 2017 I was invited as an artist-in-residence at Robert Wilson’s Watermill Center, where I developed a live audio-visual performance titled “Woman watches herself being looked at”, with composer Stavros Gasparatos and performer Serafita Grigoriadou. I am a proud member of ARCH, the theatre archive of Romeo Castellucci’s legendary Societas Raffaello Sanzio and an official programmer at Slamdance Film Festival.​
Projects
  • Director's (sort of) reel
    Director's (sort of) reelI never managed to create a director's promo reel for myself. The reason I failed to do so is that I had (and still have) deep rooted objections with fast paced music driven montages which perfectly showcase the editor's work, the DoP's work, the production designer's work, even the actor's work. However, the director's work in order to be evaluated needs a story to be told and said montages do not tell any story, only showcase a beautiful succession of beautiful images. So here is my first p
Skills
  • Film Directing
  • Film Programming
  • TV Advertising
  • Theatre Directing
  • Video Art
  • Video Installation
  • Video Campaigns
  • Video Content
  • Video Creation
  • Video Advertising