Mihalis Gkatzogias

A little post-apocalyptic dream.

5+1 images for the absurdity of the struggle. A collective production.

outa is a pigeon breed that flies all the way up to the clouds, then dives at 230 km/h and slows down just before reaching the ground. Christos is a teenager who lives in a disadvantaged neighborhood of Athens. He has to find a way to avoid conflict with his father who just got home from prison, just like the pigeons he loves avoid collision.

An elderly florist and his van arrive on her day retirement. His son convinces him to retire the old and now useless one his van when...

o.micron O.mega [the scenography of the microscale] darkness – light, absence – presence, urban environment – nature, cell – universe. Life journeys…

In a near-future world ravaged by environmental disaster and a deadly virus, Lina carries her infected teenage son, Aris, to a retired doctor hoping he will be able to cure him. But Aris’s infection proves extremely aggressive and Lina’s love for her son is tested as she watches him transforming into a different being.

A retro-futurist story of utopian politics, ideological conflicts, supernatural leaders and totalitarian spectacle. Cyberpunk queer pirates against rainbow homo-capitalist normies. Revolution vs reformism; logic vs affect. The trappings of post-internet identity politics through a contemporary take of the myth of Orpheus.

There was light and it was brutal. The shadows could not heal. The Boy had fallen into sleep. The Girl was recalling and the sand was everywhere.

A girl tries to combat her wearisome life taking pictures of strangers. A customer at the coffee place she works at asks her to escort him to the hospital. A boy is in love with her. He stalks her. Their lives intersect. Four days of their interaction scattered in time.

Determined to become heroes, three nine-year-olds defy their parents’ warnings and decide to help the village outcast, whom they find unconscious in the forest.

Elias works as a flyer distributor to cover his expenses. On his long tiring workdays, walking around Athens, he meets people and faces difficulties unknown to him. An orange juice and a fifty euro bill will put Ilias through an unexpected test.

Christina, a ballet dancer who struggles to earn her mother’s approval, is trying to succeed in an audition for which her mother is preparing her.

A man trapped in an endlessly repeating space resembling a subterranean parking lot with multiple levels, is searching frantically for the exit.

We watch the evening of Petros and Sophia, where his representation emotion constructs a personal truth. A story where the variable takes on the role of constant and communication codes define love.

In December 1948, an unofficial truce between the Democratic Army and the National Army enables the soldiers to share a human, touching moment before returning to the barbarous reality of the eternally divided Greeks.

Katerina and Alkis live with Grandpa. Their parents have gone to Alaska to seek their fortune. When Grandpa falls and does not get up, things become difficult. Fortunately, there is always dancing.

A film inspired by the paintings of Rene Magritte, Marchel Duchamp and Salvador Dali.

Avant-Drag! paints portraits of ten drag artists of varying gender expressions and sexualities who take to the streets of Athens to query, problematise and (yes, please!) undermine social strictures. Employing wildly imagined personas – like riot housewives and Albanian turbo-folk girls – who perform acts as revolutionary as praising abortion and as charming as drawing childish pictures, these artists call for social justice by taking aim at conservatism, patriarchy, patriotism, racism and sexism.

A woman alone in a house. Someone is watching. Will he survive?

Two homeless people, one blind and the other disabled travel the city streets with a supermarket trolley on an endless journey.