about

Empty Square is a non-profit art collective that works with cinema, video art and photography. The company takes its name by the term of Gilles Deleuze, Empty Square which refers to an abstract symbolic element that runs continually through the structural series like Hitchcock’s MacGuffin and Lacan’s Objet a.

Founded during 2016 in Athens by Yannis Karpouzis, Empty square is focused in making art-house films and projects that resolve around subjects such as social imbalance, political identities and media hardware. We made our first moves through the creative documentary Nikos Karouzos: Poems on the tape recorder (awarded in 22nd Thess Doc Fest). Empty Square has worked with Greek Film Center, ERT TV, Faliro House and Kunststiftung NRW and important international figures such as Hanna Schygulla, Andreas Pietschmann and Eleni Karaindrou. Currently the company releases the Greek – German short film Magdalena Hausen: Frozen Time and develops four short art house film projects and the feature essay film, Searching for Thule (Sarajevo talents 2023 – Pitch award).