Films by Asteris Kutulas

2021, 62 min
by Asteris Kutulas

The Liquid Staging project, ELECTRA 21, consists of four films, played simultaneously on four different screens that are placed around the audience area, showing different dance scenes, rehearsals, and fictional fantasies based on the Electra ballet performance by choreographer Renato Zanella. The four films are played synchronously to the same recording of the Electra opera music by Mikis Theodorakis. Electra – a timeless thriller. The father sacrifices the eldest daughter for power and fame. H

Germany 2018, 88 min
by Asteris Kutulas

DANCE FIGHT LOVE DIE is an exuberant visual epic: a poetic road movie from the cosmos of composer Mikis Theodorakis (Z, CANTO GENERAL, SERPICO, ZORBA THE GREEK). He is the ingenious enfant terrible of our recent European musical history, a man who made history.Director Asteris Kutulas captured countless moments of the composer’s life over 3 decades, 4 continents, 100 locations, and 600 hours of footage. For this exceptional film, Kutulas spliced extremely personal moments with treasures from the

Germany 2013, 86 min
by Asteris Kutulas

Not just a music film. Not just a ballet film. Not just a political film essay. Here, an antique Greek tragedy serves as an astute metaphor for the country’s current tragedy. Medea kills her own children. Society has turned against its offspring and thus kills their future. The balletic retelling of a mother murdering her two kids, choreographed by Renato Zanello features music by Mikis Theodorakis. The dancers are contrasted by the disturbingly mild-mannered 15-year-old Bella, the story’s innoc

Germany 2011, 53 min
by Asteris Kutulas, Klaus Salge

Mikis Theodorakis, Composer is the first film to take the musical oeuvre of the Greek composer as its principal subject. The chronologically structured documentary gives a concentrated overview of Theodorakis’ nigh seven decades of artistic creation, from his ecclesiastic compositions as a young man to the operas of the nineties. The artist’s extremely eventful life is depicted in its symbiotic relationship to his compositions. The film above all lets the composer have his say. Music and image s