Telémachos Alexiou
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Telémachos Alexiou is a Greek-German filmmaker and visual artist.
Early life
[edit]Telémachos Alexiou was born in Chalkida, Evvoia, Greece. He is the son of Pavlina Alexiou, a local real estate agent, and Konstantinos Alexiou, a math professor. As a child he trained as a ballroom dancer. By the age of sixteen he had won all ballroom dance national titles.[1]
At the age of seventeen Alexiou moved to London, UK, to study Communications & Visual Culture and later to Berlin, Germany, where he studied film theory and started working as a filmmaker and artist.[2]
Career
[edit]In 2009, Alexiou directed his first medium-length experimental film, The Logic Of The Cat, which had a cinema release only two years later.
In 2010, he attracted international attention with his experimental video The Dream Of Norma, starring Vaginal Davis, which premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival.[3]
After The Dream Of Norma, Alexiou directed multiple short and medium-length films and video works, including the film Venus In The Garden, which have been presented in various film festivals and art spaces around the world such as Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin and LA Outfest.[4][5]
In 2011, the Arsenal Institute for Film and Video Art in Berlin, Germany, dedicated a mini-retrospective to his films and started archiving his work.[6]
In 2014, Telémachos Alexiou finished his first feature film, Queen Antigone (Vasilissa Antigoni), a reconfiguration of the ancient tragedy Antigone by Sophocles. The film was produced by the legendary Berlin film producer Jürgen Brüning. It premiered at the Mumbai Film Festival in October of the same year and had its European premiere at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival a month later.[7][8][9][10][11][12]
Personal life
[edit]Alexiou identifies as gay and describes his films as partly autobiographical.[13][14]
Languages
[edit]Telémachos Alexiou is also a polyglot. He currently speaks nine languages fluently and understands a dozen more.[15]
Filmography
[edit]| Title | Year |
|---|---|
| The Logic Of The Cat | 2009 |
| The Dream Of Norma | 2010 |
| Deux | 2010 |
| An Interview With An Artist | 2011 |
| Venus In The Garden | 2011 |
| Natural Bodily Practices | 2013 |
| Simón De La Columna | 2014 |
| Salomé's Dance | 2014 |
| Queen Antigone | 2014 |
| The Erection Of Lazarus | 2015 (in post-production) |
| Scena Finale | 2015 (in post-production) |
References
[edit]- ^ "Τα καλά νέα έρχονται από έξω". Ελευθεροτυπία. Retrieved 22 December 2014.
- ^ "TELÉMACHOS ALEXIOU". Vimeo. Retrieved 22 December 2014.
- ^ "- Berlinale - Archive - Annual Archives - 2010 - Programme - The Dream of Norma". Berlinale.de. Retrieved 22 December 2014.
- ^ "TIFF52 - Sections Detail". Tiff.filmfestival.gr. Retrieved 22 December 2014.
- ^ "The Dream of Norma - 2012 Outfest". Outfest.org. Retrieved 22 December 2014.
- ^ "Arsenal: Telémachos Alexiou". Arsenal-berlin.de. Retrieved 22 December 2014.
- ^ ""Queen Antigone" por André Gonçalves". C7nema.net. Retrieved 22 December 2014.
- ^ "Queen Antigone [Vasilissa Antogoni] - Festival Scope: Festivals on Demand for Film Professionals World Wide". Festivalscope.com. Retrieved 22 December 2014.
- ^ Μανώλης Βαμβούνης. "Gay νέα και αφιερώματα: 11 Queer Επιλογές για το 55ο Φεστιβάλ Κινηματογράφου Θεσσαλονίκης - Antivirus Magazine". Antivirus Magazine. Retrieved 22 December 2014.
- ^ "55 (2014) - CinemaNews.gr". CinemaNews.gr. Retrieved 22 December 2014.
- ^ "TIFF55 - Sections Detail". Tiff.filfestival.gr. Retrieved 22 December 2014.
- ^ "Mumbai Film Festival - Film Selection". Mumbaifilmfest.org. Retrieved 22 December 2014.
- ^ Μανώλης Βαμβούνης. "Gay νέα και αφιερώματα: 11 Queer Επιλογές για το 55ο Φεστιβάλ Κινηματογράφου Θεσσαλονίκης - Antivirus Magazine". Antivirus Magazine. Retrieved 22 December 2014.
- ^ "Teddy Award - The official queer award at the Berlin International Film Festival". Teddyaward.tv. 9 December 2010. Retrieved 22 December 2014.
- ^ "Άρθρα - Ελευθεροτυπία". Enet.gr. Retrieved 22 December 2014.
- ^ "TELÉMACHOS ALEXIOU". Vimeo. Retrieved 22 December 2014.
- ^ "ΤΗΛΕΜΑΧΟΣ ΑΛΕΞΙΟΥ: ΤΟ ΝΕΟ ΑΙΜΑ ΤΟΥ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΟΥ ΣΙΝΕΜΑ ΕΡΧΕΤΑΙ ΑΠΟ ΤΟ ΒΕΡΟΛΙΝΟ". CLOSEUP. Retrieved 22 December 2014.