Tasos Boulmetis
Directing
Biography
Tasos Boulmetis (Greek: Τάσος Μπουλμέτης, Istanbul, 1957) is a Greek director. He has directed the films Politiki Kuzina, Notias and 1968. Politiki Kuzina is the film that has made the most tickets in Greece. He was born in 1957 in Istanbul but in 1964 with the expulsions of Greek citizens of Istanbul he settled in Greece. He initially studied physics at the University of Athens and then with a scholarship from the Onassis Foundation he studied film and television production at the University of California at Los Angeles. He returned to Greece and began directing television shows and commercials. He also worked with digital special effects. In 1990 he made his directorial debut with the film Dream Factory, which was shot on Beta sp video and converted to 35 mm film. a pioneering technique for its time. DREAM FACTORY won eight state awards, and the Fantasy Award at the Houston Film Festival in 1990. In 2003, he directed his next film, Political Cuisine,[2] of which he was the screenwriter and co-producer. The film was a great commercial success in Greece, with approximately 1,500,000 tickets sold, which is the most ever for a film in the country. The film won the Best Film award at the State Film Quality Awards and at the same awards, Tasos Boulmetis won the Best Director and Best Screenplay awards. His next film was the autobiographical film Notias, which was released in 2016. In 2018, a dramatized documentary about AEK's victory over Slavia Prague in the 1968 European Basketball Cup final was released, titled 1968. He was an assistant professor at the University of California, Berkeley for a period, and has taught directing at IEK Akmi. In 2009, he was elected the first president of the Hellenic Film Academy.
Known For
"A Touch of Spice" is a story about Fanis, a young Greek boy growing up in Istanbul, whose grandfather, a culinary philosopher and mentor, teaches him that both food and life require a little salt to give them flavor. They both require... A Touch of Spice. Fanis grows up to become an excellent cook and uses his cooking skills to spice up the lives of those around him. 35 years later he leaves Athens and travels back to his birthplace of Istanbul to reunite with his grandfather and his first love. He travels back only to realize that he forgot to put a little bit of spice in his own life.
A Touch of Spice
It is a movie following the coming-of-age for a boy; the story begins in the mid-60s, continues all through the 70s, and finishes in 1981. He is a creative young man facing the troubles of the first pangs of love and we observe the way he tries to handle them within his social surroundings, his family, and environment.
Mythopathy
A.E.K., the well-known Greek basketball team founded in 1924 by refugees from Constantinople, after 44 years, beats SLAVIA of Prague and wins the European Cup.
1968
A typical experimental film, in which a variety of audiovisual techniques are used to create the sense of polymorphic eroticism as developed by European and Mediterranean cinematography of the 20th century. Combining the methods of “animation” and “live action”, this intricate work embodies the idea of an “ars combinatoria”. The structure is loose, with neither a central axis nor a point where everything converges, contributing greatly to the open-ended character of the film, where rhythm is the key element.
Electric Angel
In a dystopian society after an unexpected epidemic citizens can't have dreams. Only few people are privillaged to dream. They operate small underground companies where they can have other people dreams.
The Dream Factory
An experimental film using a mixture of techniques to portray the different views of the human body. It consists of seven parts, each one presenting an ideotype of the human body, from the beginning of civilization up to the present time. The body as a concept or dogma is simply the embodied reflection of every civilization, upon which man himself is established. The anthropomorphism that characterizes the sum total of perception, in a clear or latent state, comes from the fact that the human body, as reality, idea and expression, comprises the ultimate reference.
Corpus
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Γιώτα Χι ώρα μηδέν
A computer project based on John Whitneys digital harmony theory. A UCLA project in 1982.