director — chrysanthi goula

for TV

Zu Tisch in Pindos

for arte/zdf

a film by Chrysanthi Goula & Elke Sasse

30 min., arte/zdf 2021

The mountains of Pindos are a pristine, pure area of clear water, fresh air, all kind of herbs and wild fruits, but it is also a mushroom paradise. Hundreds different mushrooms grow here. We learn a lot from Katerina and Ilias, two mushroom pickers and lovers and we enjoy the simplicity and the amazing sounds of the clarinet musician Yiannis in the forest. Our protagonists are also great cookers and share with us their secrets.

film copy available on request (in german and greek)

The documentary was also screened on ERT TV Greece under the name “Στο τραπέζι του γείτονα (Κύκλος 11, Ε13 Πίνδος)”

by berlin producers media

Sound of Freedom

for arte/zdf

a film by Chrysanthi Goula, Ulrike Neubecker & Bernard Wedig

2 x 52 min., arte/zdf/DW 2019

The two-part documentary “Sound of Freedom” goes back to the roots of the music of hope and rebellion, and to the sounds that have inspired unconventional thinkers and the oppressed. From “La Marseillaise” to “Bella Ciao” to “We Shall Overcome”, “I Will Survive” and “Wind of Change”. Spanning Jimi Hendrix to Serge Gainsbourg, all the way to Pussy Riot. With the international super-hits of freedom, the films take us from the 18th century to the present day – from Billy Holiday to Nina Simone, Beyoncé and numerous others.

Music is a tool for mobilisation, it is the embodiment of hope and the utopia of a better life. It provides solidarity to the oppressed, rouses resistance movements and emboldens revolutionaries.

film copy available on request (in german and english)

trailer

by sounding images

Zu Tisch in Chios

for arte/zdf

a film by Chrysanthi Goula & Elke Sasse

30 min., arte/zdf 2018

The resin of the mastic bush is the "white gold" of the Aegean island of Chios. Insummer, the tree-like plants are scarified, and the escaping resin is dried, collectedand cleaned with a hard process. In Chios the inhabitants use it as chewing gum. Theexported product is used as medicine and glue for make-up artists and lately also in cooking.

film copy available on request (in german and greek)

by berlin producers media

for cinema

The Illegal Film

a film by Martin Baer & Claus Wischmann

Co-Director & Archive Researcher: Chrysanthi Goula

My Car.
Your House.
Our Street.

Someone’s property.

But who owns the photo of your house?
The colour of my car?
The image of our street?

Can one own a view?
Who makes money with all your images on Facebook or Whatsapp?
Who will control the image of the world once reality is completely „augmented“?

OFFICIAL THEATRE RELEASE April 11, 2019 | Karlsruhe | www.zkm.de

film copy available on request (in german and english)

film website and trailer

by sounding images

for organisations / institutions

GUT+

image film (2024, 2’)

The Sound of Baglama

music video (2023, 3’23’’)

Sounds of Water

short documentary (2022, 11’)

Walking through the woods

short documentary (2021, 10’)

Taumel der Tatsachen: Artists’ portrait

short documentary (2021, 20’)

Taumel der Tatsachen

art exhibition teaser (2021)

Sowohl als auch

art exhibition teaser (2020)

Update 21

short documentary (2021, 8’)

Similarities/Differences

art exhibition teaser (2021)

Time Shift II | POSUN V CASE II

art exhibition teaser (2021)

Toni hat Schwierigkeiten!

Karlchen Knack Youtube Channel

for aejaa (live-streaming platform)

aletes (e) - A digital polyphonic tale

real-time digital performance

Concept & Text by Dimitra Kandia

Performing:

Production, Technical Support: aejaa

Audio Mix: Andreas Levisianos

Video art, Live mixing: Christos Atzinas

Direction, Camera and Live camera: Chrysanthi Goula

2nd live camera: Dimitris Papacharalambos

Performance Duration: 30 minutes

Language: Greek with English subtitles

Radioptical Opera - MEDEA

real-time digital performance

Concept and music by Andreas Levisianos

Direction, live camera: Chrysanthi Goula
Visual Arts, Programming: Christos Atzinas
Set design, Production Coordination: Valia Rassa
Graphic Design: Niko Crncevic
Technical Support: Artem Titkov

Artistic Direction, Production: aejaa
Co-Production: Prolet OCD

personal projects

Immersing in a watertank

short documentary (2015, 24’, Cuba)

We arrived in February, in the late evening at the ‘Proyecto Comunitario Muraleando’ . We knocked on the big colourfully painted garage door. Armando opened it. His skin had a milk chocolate colour, his face a lot of wrinkles. He wore big rectangle glasses, had a cigar in his hand and an enormously warm smile. That’s how this journey began.

Muraleando is a project which started in 2001 in Lawton, a neighborhood of Havana, giving free art classes to children. In the beginning it was taking place in schools but after a few years the classes were held on the street. As the interest from the local community got bigger, they needed a place to continue. This was the time when they decided to reconstruct an old water tank and step by step transformed it into a colourful space with different classrooms and a terrace with a view to the city. Since then, it functions like a cultural center for the local community offering various free workshops to the children, while at the same time collaborating with artists from around the world. To continue the project, they gather money through tourist visits mostly from the USA, but also from other places of the world.

It is an observational documentary, capturing and reflecting on the everyday life in this space, the interactions between the members of the project and the neighborhood, as well as the tourist visits, and thus highlighting this two-pole.

A SHORT FILM TRILOGY

3 short documentaries (2016, Thessaloniki)

headache

uncomfortable experiment

The main character is my aunt. She is the one who made me see the magic of the moving images, of the storytelling, of the possibility to tell my own stories through the camera. It is like a homage to her. She inspires me and that’s why I made those shorts.

In the first film “headache”, I am observing her watching a face massage show on TV.

In the film “after laughter comes laughter”, I am capturing a very funny moment at her place with two of her friends, my mother and my godmother. They are narrating hot stories from some old friends, who have all died, but the prevailing sound is a non-stop laughter -they can barely speak without laughing.

In the third film”uncomfortable experiment”, I am asking her some questions, like how she feels about USA and the wood, what kind of rooms she prefers (rectangle, round ones?..), what makes her feel pressure. Simple questions which lead to deeper thoughts and realisations.

*I can’t place these works online, as the persons who appear neither have any photos of them online nor want to have in the future, but can provide a link upon request*