Bio
Dimitris Kechris is a photographer, filmmaker, curator and essayist. He is a member of the Chamber of Fine Arts of Greece and a member of the Greek Film Critics Association. His writings on photography and cinema have appeared in edited volumes and peer-reviewed journals.
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Education
2023-present PhD candidate in Film History and Theory, Ionian University
2022 MA in Digital Arts, Athens School of Fine Arts
2011 BSc in Physics, Department of Physics, University of Athens
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Exhibitions and Screenings
2024 Big Short Films, Online Screening, Onassis Foundation
2024 Metapolitefsi, Athens Epidaurus Festival, Athens
2024 17th Audiovisual Arts Festival, Corfu
2024 Drama International Short Film Festival in Athens & Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg, Iris Hall, Athens
2024 Urbanographies on Screen, National Gallery & Greek Film Archive, Athens
2023 64th Thessaloniki International Film Festival, John Cassavetes Hall, Thessaloniki
2023 Drama International Short Film Festival in Athens, Greek Film Archive, Athens
2023 46th Drama International Short Film Festival, Olympia Hall, Drama
2023 Month of Visual Arts Practices, Chamber of Fine Arts of Greece, Athens Municipal Art Gallery, Athens
2022 FutuRetro, Athens Digital Arts Festival, Athens
2021 Open Studios, Platforms Project, Athens School of Fine Arts, Athens
2018 New Greek Photographers, Athens Photo Festival, Benaki Museum, Athens
2018 In Girum Imus Nocte-Tears and Parades, Galeria Hexagono, Barcelona
2018 Dust Breeding-The Crop, Grace, Athens
2017 2017 on 1917, Athens Municipality Arts Center, Athens
2015 The Secret Rooms of Mind, Katakouzenos Foundation, Athens
2014 DIA+, Byzantine Museum, Athens
2013 Greek Fairy Tales, Michael Cacoyannis Foundation, Athens
2012 Solidarity Between Generations, Greek Film Archive, Athens
2012 The Athenian Underground Scene (1984-2012), C.A.M.P., Athens
2010 Students’ Cultural Association, Athens University History Museum, Athens
Awards
2023 Documentary Award, National Student Competition, 46th Drama International Short Film Festival
2022 Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) Artist Fellowship by ARTWORKS
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Curatorial Work
2023 Co-curator (with Pasqua Vorgia) of the exhibition CRITICAL ARCHIVES VI: We Can’t Breathe, MedPhoto Festival, Contemporary Art Museum of Crete
2021 Co-curator (with Pasqua Vorgia) of the exhibition CRITICAL ARCHIVES V: The Future Is Unwritten, MedPhoto Festival, Contemporary Art Museum of Crete
2019 Co-curator (with Pavlos Fysakis and Maria Maragkou) of the exhibition CRITICAL ARCHIVES IV: Documents, MedPhoto Festival, Contemporary Art Museum of Crete
2018 Co-curator (with Pasqua Vorgia and Apostolos Zerdevas) of the exhibition You refuse to understand, you don’t say anything, watching me die, Co-organisation: MedPhoto Festival, Athens Photo Festival, Thessaloniki Photobiennale, ROMANTSO, Athens
2018 Co-curator (with Pavlos Fysakis, Maria Maragkou and Yorgos Karailias) of the exhibition CRITICAL ARCHIVES III: Identities, MedPhoto Festival, Contemporary Art Museum of Crete
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Writings
1. Books
Dimitris Kechris, Το φιλμ–δοκίμιο και οι πολιτικές αισθητικές του [The Essay-film and its Political Aesthetics], Athens, Egokeros Publications, 2023
Pavlos Fysakis and Dimitris Kechris eds., Archive: Between the Public and The Private, Athens, KOLEKTIV8, 2022
Pavlos Fysakis and Dimitris Kechris eds., Europe: The Faces and the Territory, Athens, KOLEKTIV8, 2019
2. Articles in Academic Journals
Dimitris Kechris, “History, Subjectivity and the Public Sphere in Greece: The Essay-films of Tonia Marketaki and Eva Stefani”, in Renata Šukaitytė and Aušra Trakšelytė (eds.) Personal Perspective and Essayistic Form in Nonfiction Film and Art, special issue of Acta Academiae Artium Vilnensis, 115, (2), 2024
Dimitris Kechris, “Forensic Architecture, Η Δολοφονία του Παύλου Φύσσα. Μέσο, συγκείμενο, αισθητική” [Forensic Architecture, The Murder of Pavlos Fyssas. Medium, Context, Aesthetics], ΚΡΙΣΗ, 14, 2023
Dimitris Kechris, “Allan Sekula: Μηχανισμοί σημασιοδότησης της τεχνικής εικόνας και κριτικός ρεαλισμός” [Allan Sekula: Mechanisms of Signification of the Technical Image and Critical Realism], ΙΣΤΟΡΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΤΕΧΝΗΣ, 12, 2023
Dimitris Kechris, “Bertolt Brecht vs. Walter Benjamin, 2017: Μια συνάντηση της σύγχρονης τέχνης με την επαναστατική θεωρία στο έργο των Broomberg & Chanarin” [Bertolt Brecht vs. Walter Benjamin, 2017: An Encounter of Contemporary Art with Revolutionary Theory in the Work of Broomberg & Chanarin], ΟΥΤΟΠΙΑ, 138, Autumn 2021
Dimitris Κechris, “Σημαίνοντα της υστερίας, σύγκρουση Λόγων και πολιτικές συνδηλώσεις στο Possession (1981) του Andrzej Zulawski” [Signifiers of Hysteria, Conflicts in Lacan’s Discourses, and Political Connotations in Andrej Zulawski’s Possession (1981)], Filmicon – Journal of Greek Film Studies, November 2021
3. Book Chapters
Dimitris Kechris, “Ευρυδίκη Β.Α. 2037 (1975), του Νίκου Νικολαΐδη. Ο μύθος και η απομυθοποίηση” [Euridice BA 2037 by Nikos Nikolaidis. Myth and Demythologisation], in Christos Skyllakos ed., Ελληνική κριτική και ελληνικός κινηματογράφος. Τόμος Α’ [Greek Film Criticism and Greek Cinema. Vol. 1], Athens, Greek Association of Film Critics and Egokeros Publications, 2022
Dimitris Kechris, “Reconstructing the Past as a Promise for the Future”, in Pavlos Fysakis and Dimitris Kechris eds. Archive: Between The Public and The Private, Athens, KOLEKTIV8, 2022
Dimitris Kechris, “Europe – Medieval, Grotesque, Monstrous: a Symphony in B-mol.”, in Pavlos Fysakis and Dimitris Kechris eds. Europe: the Faces and the Territory, Athens, KOLEKTIV8, 2019
Dimitris Kechris, “Πέφτουν οι σφαίρες σαν το χαλάζι και ο τραυματισμένος καλλιτέχνης αναστενάζει” [A Hail of Bullets], in Penelope Petsini and Dimitris Christopoulos eds. Λεξικό Λογοκρισίας στην Ελλάδα [Lexicon of Censorship in Greece], Athens, Kastaniotis Publishing House, 2018
4. Reviews in Academic Journals
Dimitris Kechris, “MedPhoto Festival: The case of a socially engaged lens-based artistic initiative at the southernmost edge of Europe”, in Penelope Petsini ed. Special Issue Narratives of Crisis: Representing Capitalist Realism, DESIGN/ARTS/CULTURE , Volume 4, Issue 2, 2024
Dimitris Kechris, “Χώρα, σε βλέπω: Ο εικοστός αιώνας του ελληνικού σινεμά” [Motherland I see you: The 20th century of Greek Cinema], Filmicon – Journal of Greek Film Studies, 8, September 2023
5. Non-academic Articles
Dimitris Kechris, “37ο Πανόραμα Ευρωπαϊκού Κινηματογράφου: Ο Murnau, ο Cassavetes και ο Ferreri ως περιπτώσεις έκφρασης της αυτοσυνειδησίας του κινηματογράφου” [37th Panorama of European Cinema: Murnau, Cassavetes and Ferreri as exemplars of the self-consciousness of cinema], Marginalia, 28.12.2024
Dimitris Kechris, “Black Audio Film Collective: Η πόλη ως πεδίο πολιτικής αντιπαράθεσης” [Black Audio Film Collective: The City as a Field of Political Antagonism], Marginalia, 25.05.2023
Dimitris Kechris, “Πολιτικά συμβάντα μεγάλης κλίμακας σε μια έκθεση” [An Exhibition on Large Scale Political Events], TVXS, 02.12.2019
Dimitris Kechris, “Sebastião Salgado. Μια εποχή στην Κόλαση” [Sebastião Salgado. A Season in Hell], Marginalia, 04.10.2018
Dimitris Kechris, “Προς μια πολυκειμενική ανάγνωση της φωτογραφίας” [Towards a Multi-textual Approach to Reading Images], Photographos Magazine, 01.02.2018
Dimitris Kechris, “Documenta 14. Allan Sekula: Το σχολείο είναι εργοστάσιο” [Documenta 14. Allan Sekula: School is a Factory], ALDEBARAN, 16.05.2017
Conference Presentations, Lectures
Dimitris Kechris, “Examining FILM as a journal dedicated to scientific and philosophical perspectives on cinema”, International Conference: Film Criticism in Greece: Historical and methodological approaches. Co-organized by the Department of Communication, Media and Culture of Panteion University, the Department of Audio & Visual Arts of Ionian University and the Department of Arts du Spectacle of Université de Poitiers, Athens, Panteion University, 21-23 November 2024
Dimitris Kechris, “The Nomadic Library Project”, Lecture, AKTO Art & Design College, Athens, 12 November 2024
Dimitris Kechris, “Urban Experience and the Essay-film”, Lecture, MA Research in Architecture: Architectural Design-Space-Culture, National Technical University of Athens, invited by Professor Stavros Stavrides, 13 December 2023
Dimitris Kechris, “The Static Image as a Structural Unit in Experimental Films, Essay-films and Video-art Works”, Lecture, MA in Digital Arts, Athens School of Fine Arts, invited by film director Thanassis Rentzis, 4 December 2023
Dimitris Kechris, “History, Subjectivity and the Public Sphere in Two Greek Essay-films by Tonia Marketaki and Eva Stefani”, International Conference: Personal Perspective and Essayistic Form in Nonfiction Film and Art, Vilnius Academy of Arts, Vilnius, 22-23 September 2023
Dimitris Kechris, “Political Aesthetics of the Technical Image: Reflections on War”, Historical Materialism Conference, Panteion University, Athens, 20-23 April 2023
Dimitris Kechris, “Material and Immaterial Traces of Major Political Events Inscribed in the Cityscape of Athens”, Ulysses – Seawards Workshop, Co-organisation: Onassis Stegi, Syrian and Greek Youth Forum, Athens, Odyssea, 24-25 September 2022.
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Editorial and Educational Work
2021 Co-editor (with Pavlos Fysakis) of the photobook Spyros Staveris, Chambres de Voyageurs, Athens, KOLEKTIV8
2018-present Co-curator (with Pavlos Fysakis) of the “Nomadic Library” visual education project
2011-2012 Tutor in History of Photography, Students’ Cultural Association of the University of Athens
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