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Mihalis Gkatzogias

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Biography

Mihalis Gkatzogias is a cinematographer based in Athens Greece. He graduated from the "Film Department" of the Fine Arts Faculty of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He has also a degree in "Computer Studies" and this background encouraged him to explore digital image acquisition, without avoiding getting technical. Mihalis shot various short and feature films, documentaries, and commercials as a director of photography, and has experience in color grading as well.

Known For

Vouta
4.0

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.

Vouta

2020
Avant-Drag!
7.2

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.

Avant-Drag!

2024
Ecdysis
N/A

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.

Ecdysis

2021
4 Days
N/A

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.

4 Days

2017
Fouetté
N/A

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.

Fouetté

2025
Orange Juice
N/A

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.

Orange Juice

2022
White Christmas 1948
4.0

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.

White Christmas 1948

2023
Orfeas2021
9.0

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.

Orfeas2021

2021
Who's Afraid of the Dark
N/A

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

Who's Afraid of the Dark

2019
The Day We Became Heroes
N/A

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.

The Day We Became Heroes

2025
Zarnten
N/A

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...

Zarnten

2012
Ceci n’ est pas un film
N/A

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

Ceci n’ est pas un film

2012
Alaska
N/A

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.

Alaska

2021
E71 (Level 71)
N/A

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

E71 (Level 71)

Sun And Shadow
1.5

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.

Sun And Shadow

2023
Ansampl
N/A

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.

Ansampl

2012
The last ones
N/A

A little post-apocalyptic dream.

The last ones

2013
o.micron O.mega (Tiny to Great)
N/A

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

o.micron O.mega (Tiny to Great)

2019
Reliquid
N/A

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

Reliquid

2012
Nomadic Machines
N/A

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

Nomadic Machines

2013