Magdalena Hausen – Frozen Time

Written / Directed by Yannis Karpouzis

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Magdalena Hausen renowned for achieving the impossible task of photographing the wind suddenly disappears. Fifteen years later more riddles remain than answers.

Political essay, Experimental
Duration: 24min
Greece / Germany
Completed August 2024

Funded by NRW Kunststiftung, Greek Film Center and Hellenic broadcasting corporation,
Magdalena Hausen: Frozen Time is an art house political short film.

Cast: Hanna Schygulla, Lina Helfrich, Sandra Sieber, David Brückner, Andreas Pietschmann, Ines Schiller, Jonas Riemer
Writer / Director: Yannis Karpouzis
Distribution: Sayonara Film
Director of Photography: Giorgos Frentzos GSC
Music: Eleni Karaindrou, Dimitris Miyakis, Costis Zouliatis
Producers: Lejla Aliev, Jan Enste, Yannis Karpouzis
Assistant Producer: Spyros Patsouras
Motion Design: Kreon Krionas
Makeup-artist: Carlotta Cécile Whan
Costume designer: Johanna Schraut

Back in the days no one got what they were asking for. And now, years later, times like these seem to be closing in again Magdalena Hausen

Yama

Written / Directed by Andreas Vakalios

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Independence Day in Athens. A girl lights a small fire and tells a small lie about a boy. Small racist lies easily get out of control. So do small racist fires.

Coming of Age
Duration: 15min
Greece
Completed 2022

Funded by Greek Film Center.

Cast: Giorgos Adamandiadis, Stefanos Damianidis, Blerim Dhampiraj, Maria Karantinaki, Nikos Mavroudis, Giannis Nanis, Efthalia Papacosta, Kostas Vakalios, Nikos Zeginoglou
Writer / Director: Andreas Vakalios
Distribution: Freak
Director of Photography: Fili Olsefski
Art Direction by Eva Goulakou
Art Department Sofia Vaso

“So that’s where my family’s fate was determined, with exiles, refugees, repatriations. In short, with a different outcome, I would not have existed.”
Andreas Vakalios

Nikos Karouzos – Poems on the tape recorder

Directed by Yannis Karpouzis
Written by Ilias Liatsopoulos – Andreas Vakalios

Logline                                                                                                                                                                                    In the midst of the economic crisis, a persistent researcher delves into the eventful life and the unexplored work of preeminent Greek modernist poet, Nikos Karouzos. Through photos, archives, super 8s, videotapes and memories, he travels back in time accompanying the poet from the traumatic postwar history of Greece to the Academy of Stockholm and all the way to the 1921 rebellion of Kronstadt in order to find a lost film footage.

Creative Documentary
Duration: 100 min
Greece
Completed February 2020

Funded by Greek Film Center and Hellenic broadcasting corporation.

Cast: Dimitris Katalifos
Director: Yannis Karpouzis
Writers: Andreas Vakalios, Ilias Liatsopoulos
Director of Photography: Yannis Kanakis, Yannis Karpouzis
Research: Ilias Liatsopoulos
Translations: Costas Koutsikouris
Editing: Leonidas Papafotiou
Original soundratck: Cleon Antoniou, Giannis Haroulis, Lefteris Andriotis
Sound: Costas Fylaktidis, 17 Poisoned Englishmen
Color Grading: Grigoris Arvanitis / authorwave

Left-wing and Christian, a hermit and an alcoholic, the damned poet Nikos Karouzos is the central figure of this hybrid-genre essay film. In order to piece together the poet’s life journey, a frustrated researcher takes us through the Aegean archipelago’s prison islands, the Swedish capital of Stockholm, the historical Russian island of Kronstadt, the “city of crisis” Athens, and across a vast archive of celluloid memories. A story about life and death; Greece’s troubled post-war history and the advent of Spring.