River’s Curve – Frozen Time

Written by Yannis Karpouzis, Calliopi Beku / Directed by Calliopi Beku

Logline                                                                                                                                                                                    In the heart of the boreal forest, on the curve of the Arctic Circle, the Sami have gathered every year for four centuries to exchange goods and stories in the town of Jokkmokk. A creative documentary about the open geographies at the end of the world.

Runtime: 13′
Shootings in 16 mm color and B&W
Genre: Essay Film – Documentary

Looking for co-producer in Sweden.

“Can you hear the sound of life in the roaring of the creek in the blowing of the wind. That is all I want to say that is all”Nils-Aslak Valkeapää

111 – Tinos

Produced by Fluxum Foundation

Choreography by Ioannis Mandafounis.

Logline                                                                                                                                                                                    One One One is a creation by the dancer and choreographer Ioannis Mandafounis. Two chairs await two spectators, inviting them to experience a unique moment during which two performers will dance for them.

Greece / Switzerland

Premiere in ArtGenève 2023

In the summer of 2021, Flux Laboratory Athens invited filmmaker Yannis Karpouzis to accompany dancers Despina Sanida-Krezia, Leda Diochnou, Thanos Ragkousis and Symeon Tsakiris on a dance experience in Greece: a series of performances followed an imaginary sea route: from the port of Spetses, to the slopes of Dimitsana, to the lake of Stymphalia, to the mountainous village of Vyzitsa, to the lagoon of Messolonghi and the waters of the island of Tinos.

Concept and choreography: Ioannis Mandafounis
Performers:
Leda Diochnou, Thanos Ragkousis, Despoina Sanida Crezia, Symeon Tsakiris

Mediation: Mélanie Fréguin
Production: Cie Ioannis Mandafounis & Flux Laboratory Athens
DoP: Claire Aimee
Directed by: Yannis Karpouzis

“Yannis Karpouzis’ camera documented the process, resulting in a series of experimental documentaries on the performance process, interweaving the dance movement and dancing bodies, with the bodies of the spectators-participants and their landscapes.”

Parallel Crisis

Photobook

Hardcover 116 pages 19 X 27
Photographs: Yannis Karpouzis
Design: Ioannis Markakis
Texts by: Moritz Neumuller, Yannis Karpouzis
Printed by: Kostopoulos printing house
Published by: Empty Square With the support of Greek Ministry of Culture June 2021 – ISBN 978-618-84981-0-5

Description
After the year 2010, a destructive financial crisis has struck Greece, dismantling an already wrecked social balance and driving the population into a state of collective depression. A condition of stagnation is ruling the capital city of Athens.The project Parallel Crisis is a creative document that addresses the ways in which the Medium of Photography is capable of describing this socio-economic event.

“Each animal is defined by a blow” Heracletus, late 6th century BCE.

 

An uneasy affinity develops between the property of photography to produce events of immobilized time and the negation of social time that widespread crisis instigates. What photography is really recording in Greece is a certain condition of numbness: subjects without the possibility of development, crippling unemployment, confined migrants, neighborhoods reigned by silence and fear. In these conditions, the Medium suspends time that has already been stalled. Photography itself is conceived as a metaphor, a mirror of the financial crisis. Even further, the immobilized time of Photography intersects with the negated time of its subjects (referents). Parallel Crisis is in the end a project about a relation. The relation between a social crisis and a still image (a photograph).

This project was awarded:
The Descubrimientos prize PHotoEspana 2015
Athens Photo Festival Portfolio Review 2016

Exhibitions:
PhotoEspana 2016
Luma Rencontres Dummy Book Award 2016
Med photo 1
Photobeijin 2016
Benaki Museum – Deste foundation – New Museum of New York
Athens photo festival 2017
PH Museum – Which Europe Photobook Week Aarhus Dummy Award 2018
Photo Bienalle – Thessaloniki contemporary art museum