
Spiros Stathoulopoulos
Directing
Biography
Born in Greece in 1978, Spiros Stathoulopoulos moved to Columbia at the age of eight. He was still a schoolboy when he began directing films, receiving his first award at the age of fourteen for his short DIMENSION. He studied film in Columbia and at California State University.
Known For

What happens when desire, intellect, and ego collide under the guise of art and science? Sparks fly – and not just the cerebral kind. Sophia, a fervent archaeologist intoxicated by her own theory, is convinced that ancient amphorae can trap echoes of the past – sound waves sealed in clay, waiting to be played back like forbidden music. Enter Potter, a sardonic artisan whose hands speak the language of form, but not of faith. Their collaboration begins as scholarly curiosity and evolves into a seductive duel of wit, vanity, and power.
The Megalomaniacs

Ofelia, an innocent rural woman, fights against time for her life after a group of common criminals place a bomb collar on her to extort her husband for an insignificant sum of money.
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In a monastery set on the top of sandstone pillars young monk Theodoros and nun Urania find themselves physically drawn to one and other after devoting their lives to the strict rituals and practises of the monasteries. Below them the eternal cycle of farm-life provides a strong contrast to their lives and they are forced to choose between human desire and spiritual devotion
Metéora

Composed by six films about the Amazon rain forest and its inhabitants, the high stakes, and the challenges they face. Each film presents a different perspective on a specific aspect of Amazonian culture.
Amazonas

During the Nazi invasion of Greece, a female resistance fighter embarks on a revenge operation to assassinate her own mother, in the name of God. Inspired by Euripides’s Electra.
Cavewoman

The hostility of the Amazon and its natural forces reach extremes during the shooting of a film. The overpowering jungle and harsh weather lead the film crew to plot the assassination of the main actor. As in cinema that scrutinizes itself, we revisit in a vertiginous sequence shot a myth of the history of film when in the toughest part of filming FITZCARRALDO, Werner Herzog phantasized about killing actor Klaus Kinski.
Killing Klaus Kinski

Anthopos tells the story of a centenarian character from his birth to his death.