Γυναίκα που ακούει (woman listens)
IN PROGRESS
The short experimental documentary The Woman Who Listens is a work-in-progress exploring the everyday life of a woman in mountainous Chios. Against the backdrop of the looming threat of mining projects in the area and the wildfires of Volissos, Sofia spends her days listening to her exuberant husband, who endlessly monologues on every possible subject. Sofia does not speak—she listens and observes. As Diomedes unfolds his rhetorical talent, her face becomes a map of female experiences, scents, and sensations. The film’s gaze meets Sofia’s, as she encounters animals and plants—sometimes to admire them, sometimes to care for them, but above all to protect them.
Kevezu (2023)
(32 min)
"Kevezou: in the Pontic dialect, it means someone who talks a lot (chatterbox). Mrs. Parthena is indeed a chatterbox, a saleswoman, and a coffee shop owner with roots in Pontus and Kazakhstan. Passersby, neighbors, and friends all visit Mrs. Parthena's annual booth at the Panagia Soumela festival for advice, shopping, fortune-telling, jokes, and sweet talk. The film follows the kevzou, Mrs. Parthena, during the festival, while simultaneously observing the relationship that develops between the director and Parthena, who overcome (or not) their differences, exchanging experiences, opinions, and sometimes even glances."
The film was produced as part of @Eleusis2023 in collaboration with Εctype film and Eleusis, as a part of the project "Western States" with beloved friends Panagiotis Papaphragkos, Christiana Chiranagnostaki, Fani Bitou, George Kravaritis, and Pavlos Kosmidis.
we are the houses we lived in
(15 min.) (2022)
Observational Documentary Film
Produced by: Cultural Programm: Anoixta Pania of Municipality of Chania
With the support of: Hellenic Ministry of Culture & Sports
We are the houses we lived in it's a trip to the village my mother grew up. Through this film, i reflect on the family's perception, my personal memory and on the boundries of gender structures. Α digging into the stories that are untold, a rite of passage to forgiveness, healing and acceptance.
Director/ cinematography/ editing: Katerina Markoulaki
Production: Christiana Chiranagnostaki, Christos Vasakakis
Based on Olga Vereli's text: The cemetery is a forest (2019)
Music: Dimitris Kontoulis
Colour: Orestis Seferoglou
Sound Mixing: Vera Chotzoglou
Official selection: Syros Internatinal Film Festival| Chania International Film Festival |Vizantrop Engaged Ethnographic Film Festival, Screenings: ΝΤΙΖΕΖΑ community space
The funeral/ Η κηδεία (2021)
(27min.)
The observational documentary The funeral, follows the funeral of Mikis Theodorakis in Crete. While dozes of reporters compete for the best shot, a biker, a conductor and a city, pay their respect to the great musician. An observational film, on the experience of Greek junta, the anti dictatorship struggle and the regime change in the 70's. A humorous take on modern Greece, surveilance and the rituals of grief in Crete.
Directed by Katerina MarkoulakiEdit: Katerina Markoulaki, Orestis SeferoglouColour Correction: Orestis SeferoglouSound Mixing: Dimitris SiderisSubtitling/ Text editing: Giannis Galiatsos
Agora Doc. Market Thessaloniki International Documentary Film Festival
Vizantrop Engaged Film Festival, Belgade
Screening/ exhibitions: 365+1 sunsets | El paso
Pale flowers of spring (2020) (4min.)
A personal diary, crafted during the covid – 19 lockdown period in Athnes, Greece. Speaking of loneliness, friendship and collective struggle, following the event of murder of LGBTQ activist and drug queen Zak Kostopoulos/ Zackie Oh!
A video – letter to friends while in confinement. A short reminder that we are united, although afar.
Special thanks to the “House of Kareola”, the first ballroom house in Greece.
Screenings: Balkan can kino Film Festival (2021)|ATH, GR | Pugnant Film series, ATH, GR | Wasted: Film series, State of Concept (2021) curatied by Temporary Akademy of Arts |ATH, GR | GRLL HAUS CINEMA (2020) |BE, GE
HOMAGE TO SUMMER (2020) (4min.)
Immitating the connotational writting of Margaruete Duras, the short experimental film, is exploring the gender structures beneath the rituals following the making of greek coffee in Greece. An attempt for a fluid feminist narration.
Officail Selection of Mimesis doc Film Festival, Colorado, USA | Pugnant Film Series, ATH, GRE| Feminist Film Series,[Barnard College, Columbia university]NY, USA| Film and Video Poetry Symposium CA| USA | Aegean Film Festival, Spetses | GRE
Best Intercultural Cinema Award| Film and Video Poetry Symposium 2020
έλα πάλι μπαρ/
ela pali bar/
come back bar (19 min)
Come back bar, capturing a group of youngsters living in the content of greece economic crisis. The film is an attempt to explore the dynamic potentials of rave subculture in Athens, as we follow the group in rave parties, in the pursiut of ultimate happiness and freedom.
The film explores the melancholic aspects of rave subculture in the Athenian landscape. An auto-ethnographic film, in first-person narration, exterminates the boundaries of rave community in Athens, home, loss and memory. ‘’Come back, bar’’ (2019), is as a personal film-diary, a debate on rave’s subculture’s perfomativity and the blurred lines between happiness and despair.
Premiered on ROMANTSO BIOS.
Official Selection: Vizantrop Engaged Ethnographic Film Festival| Femme Fatal film festival| 2nd Balkan can Kino film festival| Athens never sleeps mini fest.
A fine man for my daughter (2018) (16 min.)
An ethnographic short film, observes and explored the relationship between a mother and her daughters, during Easter holidays in the small village of Crete. The film is a critical approach of gender, tradition and religion, of Crete, as well as the boundries of family.
This is not a robot film festival
stay awake to (2018) (6:58 min.)
Video essay, exploring the ambiguities of love, as following a couple wondering through the city.
