NikosKatsaounis
Thirty-five posters are printed below, one project each, in the order he made them. Every one of them is its film: press play where it sits.
Nikos Katsaounis · documentary · based in New York, on the road
Before Greece · 2008 to 2010
01 · Co-produced, 2008
2012 Timefor Change
Two friends go looking for a paradigm that puts tribal wisdom and the scientific method in the same room.
Co-produced by Nikos Katsaounis · interviews with Dean Radin, Paul Stamets, Sting, Ellen Page
02 · Animation sequence
AnimationSequence
The animated passage from 2012 Time for Change is cut loose and kept as a film in its own right.
From 2012 Time for Change, a film Nikos Katsaounis co-produced
03 · Short · MIT
TransmediaStorytelling
The director of MIT's Comparative Media Studies programme explains where media power went.
Henry Jenkins on converging technologies and cultures
04 · Pilot · never commissioned
MoreThan Zero
A cross-media pilot about what media does to the stereotype of a Muslim, and it never grew up.
Produced and co-written with Jonathan Stack
05 · Short film · India
RustCrust Dust
Seventy thousand kilometres of national highway are driven by six hundred thousand men who sleep in the cab.
His own words: “it's sort of about endurance, and back sweat. Thirty-nine hours in a cramped smelly box that vibrates nonstop.”
A short film about truck drivers in India
06 · Conference · Athens
TheΣymposium
Bright minds are put in one room to cross-pollinate their disciplines, and the subject is storytelling itself.
That year's question: has technology empowered us from controlling our own narrative about life?
07 · Forty-three photographs · India
The Truckdriversof India
Six hundred thousand long-distance drivers, and he travelled with them and photographed the cab.
His own words: “70,000km of National Highway. 600,000 Long Distance Truck Drivers. That is sort of what this is about. Simply put, but that understates it.”
Forty-three photographs from his travels with the truck drivers of India
08 · Online collective documentary · Greece
The PrismGR2011
Fourteen photojournalists learn video in one workshop and come back with twenty-seven films.
A collective documentation of Greece, and his question for it: “what do you see through the Prism?”
Produced and directed with Nina · theprism.tv
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Twenty-seven shorts came out of one workshop. These ten kept their own page.
09–18 · The Prism GR2011 · shot 2010–11
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Insomnia
Athens at night lost its gloss, and a darker city grew in the narrow streets.
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Westbound
Greece is called the gate of illegal immigration to Europe. In 2010, 128,000 crossed.
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100+
He came home to Ikaria to die thirty years ago. The island had other plans.
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Once Upon a Time
On the mountain where Zeus was born, a lute player shows another way to live.
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Maria
Twenty, cerebral palsy, law student, swims for Greece, in a city with no ramps.
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The Writing on the Wall
More graffiti than any capital in Europe, and its pioneers argue it is not pollution.
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From a Distance
They left Athens for Kythira at different times. The island kept them both.
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Local
Bicycle riders reclaim the cement crust of Athens with guerilla films.
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Radical Youth
Twelve-year-olds throw stones at the Parliament. The film asks where the anger came from.
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MC Yinka
Born in Athens to Nigerian parents, he uses his lyrics as weapons.
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The other seventeen were woven into one feature, which is the next poster.
Twenty-seven shorts · one film
19 · Feature documentary · shot 2010–11
Krisis
Seventeen of the shorts are woven into one feature, and it travelled to more than thirty festivals.
The crisis told by the people it had already changed, cut from the Prism's own footage.
Directed with Nina Maria Paschalidou · trailer
The road years · city guides and timelapses
20 · Video city guide · Daily Secret
AthensDaily Secret
A city guide is shot as a film instead of a list, and Athens answers in its own voice.
The second of the video city guides for Athens Daily Secret.
Custom directed and produced for Daily Secret · three digests
21 · Video city guide · Daily Secret
LimaDaily Secret
Part three of the series crosses the Atlantic, and Lima is filmed the same way Athens was.
Part 3 of the video city guide series DSV.
Custom directed and produced for Daily Secret · two digests
22 · Video city guide · Daily Secret
Buenos AiresDaily Secret
Part four, and the last of the city guides: three digests shot the length of Buenos Aires.
Part 4 of the video city guide series DSV.
Custom directed and produced for Daily Secret · three digests
23 · Timelapse · eight sequences
Timelapses
Eight sequences hold still while four cities move, which is the only way he has found to film a place twice.
His own words: “these are timelapse sequences that I have filmed in the various places I have visited.” Athens, Lima, Buenos Aires.
Eight sequences · Istanbul has its own page, and its own poster beside this one
24 · Timelapse · September 2012
Istanbul
One sequence kept its own page on the old site, and the archive writes no caption for it at all.
So nothing is said for it here either: the film is the whole of what is known.
Istanbul, September 2012
25 · Photographs · 2007
Cuba2007
A trip with no film to make, and what the camera does when nobody has hired it.
His own words: “photos from my trip to Cuba in 2007.” Ten of them.
Ten photographs · Havana
26 · Photographs · 2008
Morocco2008
The following year, the same camera and no brief, and seventeen frames came back.
His own words: “photos from my trip to Morocco in 2008.”
Seventeen photographs · Chefchaouen
27 · Webdoc series · Oregon, September 2018
Oregon GlobalEclipse
He helped produce the video capture of his third total eclipse, and the sky goes out for two minutes.
His own words: “I had the privilege to witness my 3rd total eclipse in Oregon USA.” Four of its six films have since gone from Vimeo.
Produced with Kevin · globaleclipse.tv
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28 · Feature documentary
The SecondWave
As head of video production at the festival, the documentation included a feature of its own.
Directed by Ryan Frame · trailer
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29 · Australia · 2012
AustralianEclipse 2012
Six years earlier, the first of the three, filmed under a Queensland sky.
Australian Eclipse 2012
After · 2017 onward
The light comes back, and the work carries on in other countries.
30 · Two short films
IRC
Two short films are produced for the International Rescue Committee, and the archive says nothing more than that.
Syrian Voices from Greece · Lights Out in Syria
31 · Florida · art director
Okeechobee
A music and arts festival hires a documentary crew for its teasers, and he art-directs them.
Four teasers · three on Vimeo, one on YouTube
32 · Feature · Northern Greece
Digger
A farmer fights a machine for his forest, and then the son he has not seen for twenty years arrives.
Directed by Georgis Grigorakis · Nikos Katsaounis, co-producer · Haos Film
33 · Cape Town · March 2023
Cloudline
Autonomous airships carry emergency services to places a road cannot reach, and he went to film them.
Produced for a Timon Capital portfolio company
34 · TEDx · spring 2012
He was asked how you coordinate a hundred photographers for almost no money, and he answered it on a stage.
TEDx · on YouTube
35 · Where it began
Twenty years of this started with a fascination with what new formats of storytelling could do. An Emmy, an honoree selection at the Webby Awards, a finalist place in the Pictures of the Year awards, and Krisis in over thirty festivals.
Also a fund manager at Timon Capital · based in New York, on the road quite a bit