CRITICAL
OVERVIEW:
Film academics have cited Michael
as the first Greek-Australian filmmaker to produce a film on
a Greek-Australian theme. That film, A Face of Greekness
(1979), sealed Michael's acceptance into the Australian Film and
Television School (1980), and it was selected for competition
in that same year at two international film festivals - Sydney
and Thessaloniki. Michael has since worked on a variety of productions
in both film and video, across a range of genres (narrative, documentary,
essay film). He is particularly interested in themes pertaining
to Hellenism, and these themes are intrinsically reflected in
all his works on some level or another.
FILMOGRAPHY:
Portrait
of an Old Man (1976,
5 mins, 16mm)
Two Homelands
(1979, 30 mins, 16mm)
A Face
of Greekness (1979, 14 mins, 16mm)
Empty
Spaces (1982, 10 mins, 16mm)
To Ron
With Love (1985, 50 mins, video)
The Occupant
(co-directed with Peter Lyssiotis and Ettore Siracusa, 1985, 25
mins, 16mm)
A Day
and a Half (1987, 23 mins, 16mm)
In Our
Own Image (1988, 27 mins, video)
Twilight
Child (1989- , video) work in progress
Fractured
City (1990, 48 mins, video)
English
at Work (1991, 26 mins, video) four episodes in series for
SBS-TV.
Carnivale
(1996, 6 mins, video)
Letter
to the Dead (1999, 8 mins, video)
Reconciliation:
The 4th R (2000, 26 mins, video)
Images
of Home (2001, 30 mins, video)
The
Ifs of Language (co-directed with Peter Lyssiotis, 2003,
10 mins, video)
SELECT
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
short
review of A Day and a Half, by Richard Bernstein, The
New York Times, April 1, 1989.
"A
Guide to Greek-Australian filmmakers", by Bill Mousoulis,
Innersense
website, 1998.
Is
Your Film Language Greek?
by Bill Mousoulis, Senses of Cinema, Issue No.1, December
1999.
Are
Their Eyes Greek? by Vicky Tsaconas, Senses of Cinema,
Issue No.4, March 2000.
©
Michael Karris, March 2005
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