Vouvoula Skoura

Directing·Thessaloniki, Greece

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Vouvoula Skoura was born in Thessaloniki. She studied Graphic Arts at the Athens Institute of Technology (ATI). She lived in London during the dictatorship in Greece, where she attended Art History courses (1970) and a Computer Graphics for Video seminar at Middlesex Polytechnic (1988). She worked with experimental mixed media on photography, which she applied both to her prints (books, posters) and to her films. Her works, both film and video, have been presented at international festivals and universities in more than fifty cities (Athens, Beirut, Berlin, Bilbao, Brussels, Cetinje, Chania, Krakow, Delphi, Ghent, Frankfurt, Kassel, Leeds, London, Naples, Patras, Pristina, São Paulo, Sofia, Strasbourg, Tampere, Thessaloniki, etc.), as well as on ERT1, ARTE and the BBC. She has collaborated with the Ministry of Culture, the Athens Concert Hall, the Municipal Council of Thessaly, the Municipal Council of Patras and many other cultural institutions, such as the Aplo Theatre, the Attis Theatre, the Fournos Digital Culture Center, Patras – European Capital of Culture and the KAM (Center for Mediterranean Architecture). Her films Internal Migration (1984) and Slag of Light (1989) were awarded a special mention by the Jury at the Drama Festival. The video Black Moon won first prize at the Athens Video Art competition (1998). The film Ethel Adnan: Exiled Words won the Greek Film Center Award at the 10th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival (2008). In 2009 she was honored with the EBGE Lifetime Achievement Award of the Graphic Designers Association of Greece. From the Thessaloniki Film Festival website.

Film	Credit
UUTOPIA. The Poetics of Borders: Berlin – Nicosia2026 · Director	Director
EEtel Adnan: Undying Colours2026 · Actor, Producer, Writer	Actor, Producer, Writer
CONTRABANDO – Seeking Melpo2023 · Director	Director
II Hear an Army2022 · Director, Writer, Producer	Director, Writer, Producer
EEveline 20202020 · Director	Director
CContrabando: A Film For Melpo Axioti2014 · Director	Director
NNanos Valaoritis2014 · Director, Producer, Writer, Director of Photography	Director, Producer, Writer, Director of Photography
TThe Red Bank. James Joyce: His Greek Notebooks2013 · Director	Director
IIn Memory of...2012 · Producer, Director of Photography, Director, Writer	Producer, Director of Photography, Director, Writer
IIn Memory of... II2012 · Director, Producer, Writer, Director of Photography	Director, Producer, Writer, Director of Photography
NNiki Marangou: Water Surfaces2012 · Director	Director
WWater on Table – Homage to Odysseas Elytis2010 · Director	Director
Etel Adnan: Words in Exile2008 · Narrator, Director, Writer	Narrator, Director, Writer
TThe Four Stages of Cruelty – For Antonin Artaud2008 · Director	Director
SSibyls2002 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
MMedea – No Comment2001 · Director, Producer, Writer	Director, Producer, Writer
PPhiloktetes – The Wound2000 · Director, Writer, Producer	Director, Writer, Producer
GGiorgos Seferis: Poet and Citizen. The Experience of Love + War and Decay2000 · Director	Director
GGiorgos Seferis: Poet and Citizen. A Journey in Space and Time2000 · Director	Director
ΣΣκωρία φωτός1989 · Director, Producer, Writer	Director, Producer, Writer
IInternal Migration1984 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer