Kostas Sfikas

Kostas Sfikas (Athens, 1927 - Athens 25 May 2009) was a Greek film director, screenwriter and actor. For his film The Model he won half the award for best feature film at the 15th Greek Film Festival. In 1961 he started as a documentary filmmaker with his short films Inauguration (1962), which is recorded as a directed documentary, Waiting (1963) and Theraic Morning (1968), co-directed by Stavros Tornes, which was later purchased by the MOMA in New York. During the years of the dictatorship he seems to have developed a completely different cinematic approach - problematic, completely outside of anything that had been seen in domestic cinema up to that point. Dedicated to experimental cinema, Kostas Sfikas directed documentaries and fiction films, constituting a consistent alternative voice in the field of Greek cinema, the "last ideal of our solitary cinema". Kostas Sfikas is a director who tested, one might say to the extreme, the tolerances and endurance of cinematic creativity, he reflected and labored for another, completely radical and deviating from the usual narrative cinema, approach to cinematic culture. In other times and under other circumstances he would have been an outcast. In those times and in those circumstances, it was treated as an admittedly extreme but respected and existing trend, which enriched the reflections on what it is, how it is constructed, how it is read, how cinematographic creation is accepted. The Model is a film, outside the Greek data and…