Vasilios Papaioannu is a filmmaker, photographer and mixed media artist currently based in Washington, DC. In his work Papaioannu explores the fleeting dreamscapes of reality using noise, movement and disturbance. He hybridizes different modes of filmmaking, unifying variegated media, primarily 16mm film, digital video and archival footage. His works have been shown in various venues around the world, such as Crossroads at SFMOMA, Anthology Film Archives, Athens International Film + Video Festival, Cork International Film Festival, Festifreak, Analogica, Cámara Lúcida, Engauge Film Festival, EXiS, L’ Alternativa, Antimatter [media art], Montreal Underground Film Festival, Revelation Perth Film Festival and Sharjah Film Platform. Papaioannu holds an MA in Communication, Text Semiotics and Cinema from the University of Siena in Italy and an MFA in Film and Cinematography from Syracuse University in New York. Papaioannu is currently an Assistant Professor at the Cathy Hughes School of Communications, Department of Media, Journalism, and Film at Howard University.
[screenings]
2024
Rethymno Days Festival & Video Art Festival Miden // Rethymno, Greece // May 20-23
2023
International Experimental Film Festival // Athens, Greece // October 29
Ithaca Experimental Film Festival @ Cinemapolis // Ithaca, NY // October 15
Far Out Festival // Nashville, TN // July 13
Live Soundtrack ~ Art Bioscop Kolarac // Belgrade, Serbia // June 24
Live Soundtrack ~ Zpațiu / Zpace // Chișinău, Moldova // June 20
40th Asolo Art Film Festival // Asolo, Italy // June 17
London Greek Film Festival // London, UK // June 7
Live Soundtrack ~ Hypnos Theater // Malmö, Sweden // June 4
Live Soundtrack ~ Longest Night // Gothenburg, Sweden // June 3
Video Art Projects~Video Art Festival Miden & Aristotle University of Thessaloniki // Thessaloniki, Greece // May 26-28
Live Soundtrack ~ afo Architekturforum // Linz, Austria // May 7
Shed Gallery ~SHORT CUTS Exhibition~ //Milwaukee, WI // March 25 - April 1
26th Rencontres Internationales Traverse ~ Les Abattoirs, Musée - Frac Occitanie // Toulouse, France // March 19
Live Soundtrack ~ Sääli // Basel, Switzerland // March 9
Esto Es Para Esto~Programa 11•POE’TICA~LIVE @TWITCH // Monterrey, Mexico // March 9
Helios Sun Poetry Film Festival @Arámburu Bookstore // Oaxaca, Mexico // February 11
2022
THE HOLY ART Gallery ~Athens Open Art~ // Athens, Greece // December 16-28
Mientras Tanto CINE 14 ~PROGRAM 6~ // Montevideo, Uruguay // November 23
Bowery Film Festival // New York City, NY // November 16-19
Celaya Experimental Film Fest & Fisura, International Experimental Film and Video Festival// Acapulco, Mexico // November 17
PLAY Festival de Videoarte y Cine experimental~IMPOSSIBLE LANDSCAPE~ // Corrientes, Argentina // November 7
25th Indie Memphis Film Festival // Memphis, TN // October 20-24
Film Crash Film Festival // Los Angeles, CA // October 15
18th Athens Digital Arts Festival ~FutuRetro~ Video Art: Fractured Pathways // Athens, Greece // October 11
We Make Movies International Film Festival - Afternoon Delights 2 // Los Angeles, CA // October 9
Over the Real // Lucca, Italy // September 23-24
5th Photometria in Motion // Ioannina, Greece // September 22
Bookmarks of Discomfort cur. Priyanka Das - Millennium Workshop // New York City, NY // September 21
KINAM // Mexico City, Mexico // September 10
Polish International Film Festival // Warsaw, Poland // August 22-26
Helios Sun Poetry Film Festival - Constellations // Mexico City, Mexico // August 25
Defy Film Festival // Nashville, TN // August 20
40th Flickers' Rhode Island International Film Festival // Providence, RI // August 8-14
New Wave Short Film Festival // Munich, Germany // August 11
Esto Es Para Esto~Programa 11•POE’TICA~ // Monterrey, Mexico // July 19-20
Boston Short Film Festival - Kendall Square Cinema // Cambridge, MA // July 13
Fisura, International Experimental Film and Video Festival // Mexico City, Mexico // April 19-June 29 2022
non-syntax Experimental Image Festival~Obscure Mediation~ // Taipei, Taiwan // June 24-28
SPLICE Film Fest // New York City, NY // June 25
Walthamstow International Film Festival // London, UK // June 12
6° FECIP - Portoviejo Film Festival // Portoviejo, Ecuador // June 9-12
Mammoth Lakes Film Festival // Mammoth Lakes, CA // May 29th, 5:00 PM @ Edison Theater
Fisura, International Experimental Film and Video Festival & Digital Culture Center // Mexico City, Mexico // May 27
Fisura, International Experimental Film and Video Festival // Mexico City, Mexico // April 18-May 20
23rd Moviate Underground Film Festival // Harrisburg, PA // May 14
The West Virginia Mountaineer Short Film Festival // Morgantown, WV // April 22 & 23
PERIPHERIES // Boston, MA // April 10-14
CICA Museum ~Abstract Mind 2022~ // Gimbo, South Korea // February 23-March 13
34th Annual United States Super 8mm Film + Digital Video Festival // Rutgers University-New Brunswick, NJ // February 19-20
Brussels Independent Film Festival // Brussels, Belgium // February 6-13 2022
SPHERE WORLD CINEMA CARNIVAL City ~Life Remedy Section~ // Kolkata, India // January 28-February 6
International Kansk Video Festival // Kansk, Russia // September 28-30
2021
Calcutta International Short Film Festival // Kolkata, India // December 17-19
Cámara Lúcida – VI Festival Internacional de Cine Contemporáneo // Cuenca, Ecuador // November 20-December 10
ANALOGICA 11 // Bolzano, Italy // December 1-5
38th Middle East Studies Association (MESA) Film Festival // Washington, DC // December 1-3
Sharjah Film Platform 4 - Sharjah Foundation // Sharjah, UAE // November 18-28
Hummingbird International Film Festival // Kolkata, India // November 21
CICA Museum ~FORM 2021~ // Gimbo, South Korea // November 3-21
L’ Alternativa, 28th Barcelona Independent Film Festival ~Hall Selects 2~ // Barcelona, Spain // November 20
66th Cork International Film Festival ~Free Radicals Program~ // Cork, Ireland // November 11
Festival Internacional de Videoarte SPMAV // Pelotas, Brazil // November 8
Engauge Experimental Film Festival // Seattle, WA // October 28-November 8
7th Bahia Independent Cinema Festival // Bahia, Brazil // November 4-7
Antimatter [media art] // Victoria, Canada // October 14 - 24
Melbourne Underground Film Festival ~Short Films Session 4 // Melbourne, Australia // October 15-23
47th Athens International Film and Video Festival // Athens, Ohio // October 22
Mientras Tanto CINE 16 // Montevideo, Uruguay // October 22
Katra Film Series // New York City, NY // October 18- 22
CROSSROADS 12 // San Francisco, CA // Sep 17 - October 21
Festifreak · Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente de La Plata // Buenos Aires, Argentina // October 1-17
Lucca Film Festival & Europa Cinema~Blocco 1 Cortometraggi~Cinema Centrale // Lucca, Italy // October 6
FLIGHT - Mostra del Cinema di Genova // Genova, Italy // September 30
San Francisco Independent Short Film Festival // San Francisco, CA // September 17 - 26 & September 18
Ibrida Festival~Percezioni cur. Vertov Project~ // Forli’, Italy // September 26
Photometria Festival // Ioannina, Greece // September 22
Arizona Underground Film Festival - The Screening Room // Tucson, AZ // September 21
New Jersey Film Festival - Rutgers University // New Brunswick, NJ // September 19
Kati Patang Film Festival // Mumbai, India // September 11
We Make Movies International Film Festival // Los Angeles, CA // September 9
NewFilmmakers NY // Anthology Film Archives, New York City, NY // August 10
[Fünfter Löffel] - Bringing the Noise Back // Berlin, Germany // July 6-24
GUFF Underground Film Festival ~ GBiennale21 // Melbourne, Australia // July 9-17
Revelation Perth International Film Festival ~Experimental Showcase~ // Perth, Australia // July 3 & 10
London Music Video Festival // London, UK // July 1
EFICE (Eneagrama Festival Internacional de Cine Experimental) // Córdoba, Argentina // June 16-20
VONLINEFILMFEST // Italy, online // June 17
KOQIX FEST // Torino, Italy // June 1-6
SPHERE // Kolkata, India // May 20
Demetera International Film Festival // Paris, France // May 10-17
Citric Signals // Orlando, FL // May 14
FilmArte Festival // Madrid, Spain // April 23-24
Boden International Film Festival // Boden, Sweden // April 5-6
Pollino Film Fest // Cosenza, Italy // March
Fargo Film Festival // Fargo, ND // March 18-28
San Antonio Independent Film Festival // San Antonio de Ibarra, Ecuador // March 20-23
The Holy Art Gallery - Identity - {room 3} // London, UK // January 29-February 7
HELIOS Sun Poetry Film Festival // Mexico City, Mexico // January 31
Video Art Festival Miden - Carry On // Kalamata, Greece // January 1-31
2020
Harkat 16mm Film Festival // Mumbai, India // December 20
Calcutta International Short Film Festival // Kolkata, India // December 20
Kinoskop // Belgrade, Serbia // December 4-6
ULTRAcinema ~ FILM IS NOT DEAD Section // Tepoztlán, Mexico // November 14 & 17
Colectivo Deshumanización // Lima, Perú // October 31
Engauge Experimental Film Festival ~ Program A: “Letters To and From” // Seattle, WA // Oct 27-28
3rd Photometria in Motion // Ioannina, Greece // September 13
Rhizome DC-Virtual Microcinema Experimental Shorts // Washington, DC // August 6-31
Video Raymi [9] - Festival Internacional de Videoarte del Cusco // Cusco, Peru // August 28
Besides The Screen Festival // Porto, Portugal // August 13
FeelTheReel International Film Festival // Glasgow, UK // July
The Art of Brooklyn Film Festival // Brooklyn, NY // June 6
Short Movie Club Film Festival // Minsk, Belarus // March 14
23rd Rencontres Internationales Traverse ~ Projections // Toulouse, France // March 12
MUSLAB 2020-Cultural Center Spain in Mexico-Electroacoustic concert and video art // Mexico City, Mexico // May 7
Brussels Independent Film Festival // Brussels, Belgium // February 14
Fünfter Löffel - Gece Faslı // Istanbul, Turkey // February 7
New Jersey International Film Festival - Rutgers University // New Brunswick, NJ // January 31
Concurso Internacional Juan Downey 2019 - Bienal de Artes Mediales Santiago // Santiago, Chile // January 26
2019
[Fünfter Löffel] - Karga Space // Istanbul, Turkey // December 22
Cinecipó // Belo Horizonte, Brazil // December
FIVA’9-Festival International de Videoarte // Buenos Aires, Argentina // December
Artpro International Video Art Festival // Dhaka, Bangladesh // December
Harkat 16mm Film Festival // Mumbai, India // December
FROSTBITE International Indie Festival // Colorado Springs, CO // December 1
CODEC Festival Internacional de Cine Experimental Y Video // Mexico City, Mexico // November
XII International Short Film Festival "VISION” // Kemerovo, Russian Federation // November
ULTRAcinema // Oaxaca, Mexico // November
64th Cork Film Festival // Cork, Ireland // November
32nd Festival Instants Vidéo Numériques et Poétiques // Marseille (Friche la Belle de Mai), France // November
Avant Edge Film Festival // Chicago, IL // November
White Unicorn International Film Festival // Kolkata, India // November
Syracuse International Film Festival // Syracuse, NY // October
Film Crash Film Festival // Los Angeles, CA // October
NewFilmmakers NY // Anthology Film Archives, New York City, NY // October
Oaxaca Filmfest // Oaxaca, Mexico // October
Intermediaciones-VI Muestra De Videoarte Y Video Experimental // Medellín, Colombia // October
Bolton Film Festival // Bolton, UK // September 2019
31st Girona Film Festival ~Experimental Art~ // Girona, Spain // September
Arizona Underground Film Festival // Tucson AZ // September
Move Cine Arte, Museum of Image and Sound // São Paulo, Brazil // September
PLAY Festival de Videoarte y Cine experimental // Corrientes, Argentina // September
LLAWN Festival // Llandudno, Wales // September
EFICE (Eneagrama Festival Internacional de Cine Experimental) // Córdoba, Argentina // September
Marienbad Film Festival // Mariánské Lázně, Czech Republic // August
Syracuse University Art Galleries ~NOT A METRIC MATTERS~ //Syracuse, NY // August 15-November 24
CineAutopsia, Bogota' Experimental Film Festival // Bogota', Colombia // August
London Experimental // London, UK // August
EXiS (Experimental Film and Video Festival in Seoul) // Seoul , South Korea // July
Seattle Transmedia & Independent Film Festival // Seattle, WA // July
Revelation Perth International Film Festival ~Experimental Showcase~ // Perth, Australia // July
We Make Movies International Film Festival // Los Angeles, CA // July
Pugnant Film Series // Athens, Greece // July
CROSSROADS 10, SFMOMA // San Francisco, CA // June
FILMADRID // Madrid, Spain // June
Laterale Film Festival // Cosenza, Italy // June
Walthamstow International Film Festival // Walthamstow, UK // June
Moviate Underground Film Festival // Harrisburg, PA // May
London Greek Film Festival // London, UK // May
Braziers Mini Indi Film Festival ~OBSERVED ECOLOGIES~ // Oxfordshire, UK // May
15th Athens Digital Arts Festival // Athens, Greece // May
NewFilmmakers NY, Anthology Film Archives // New York City, NY // May
Southern Cone International Film Festival (FICCSUR) // Valparaíso, Chile // May
11th Magmart International Videoart Festival // Naples, Italy // May
The Hazel Eye Film Festival (HEFF) // Nashville, TN // April
Ibrida Festival ~PERCEZIONI~ // Forli’, Italy // April 27
Santa Cruz International Film Festival // Santa Cruz, Argentina // April
Lucca Film Festival & Europa Cinema // Lucca, Italy // April
Tallahassee Film Festival ~DOC SHORTS 2: VISIONS~ // Tallahassee, FL // April 6
MicroActs & GUISE Collective curated program ~ANALOGUE FUTURES~ // London, UK // April
Passagem Videográfica ~Open Window Exhibition~ // São Paulo, Brazil // March 30
Denver Underground Film Festival // Denver, CO // March 24
WAV Venice Audio-Visual Show // Venice, Italy // February
Sharjah Film Platform - Sharjah Foundation // Sharjah, UAE // January
2018
Moscow Shorts // Moscow, Russia // December
7th International Video Poetry Festival // Athens, Greece // December
Cineteca Universidad de Chile - Isla Magnética // Santiago, Chile // December
ULTRAcinema // Xalapa, Mexico // November
CICA Museum, Contemporary Landscape // Gimpo, South Korea // November
CinqueTerre FilmFest // Riomaggiore Castle, La Spezia, Italy // October 19
Drunken Film Festival // Oakland, CA // October
Exchange Gallery // Bloomsburg, PA // September-November
UWM Union Cinema - Save the Archives Film Festival // Milwaukee, WI // September 20
Unseen Festival // Denver, CO // September
Twisted Oyster Film Festival // Chicago, IL // July
Casoria Contemporary Art Museum // Naples, Italy // July-October
Moviate Underground Film Festival // Harrisburg, PA // May
London Greek Film Festival// London, UK // May
AXW, Anthology Film Archives // New York City, NY // April
The West Virginia Mountaineer Short Film Festival // Morgantown, WV // April
Lucca Film Festival e Europa Cinema // Lucca, Italy // April
IBAFF Festival Internacional de Cine de Murcia // Murcia, Spain // March
aDifferent Film Festival // Milwaukee, WI // February
2017
London Experimental // London, UK // December
10th Magmart International Videoart Festival //Naples, Italy // November
Syracuse International Film Festival // Syracuse, NY// October
Great Lakes International Shorts Festival // Erie, PA // October
7th Greek Film Festival Chicago // Chicago, IL // September
Oregon Independent Film Festival // Portland, OR // September
35th Long Island Film Festival // Long Island, NY // August
CICA // Gimpo, South Korea // August
CICA // Gimpo, South Korea // June
FeelTheReel International Film Festival // Glasgow, UK // June
Festival de Cine de Portoviejo // Portoviejo, Ecuador // June
10th London Greek Film Festival // London, UK // May
19th Moviate Underground Film Festival // Harrisburg, PA// May
CICA // Gimpo, South Korea // February
2016
Oregon Independent Film Festival // Eugene, OR // September
Rivne House of Culture // Rivne, Ukraine, September ( IVAHM'16 on Tour)
11th Montreal Underground Film Festival // Montreal, Canada // May
12th Athens Digital Arts Festival // Athens, Greece // May
3rd International Festival of Experimental Video PROCESO DE ERROR // Valparaíso, Chile // May
9th London Greek Film Festival // London, UK // May
IVAHM'16 // Madrid, Spain // May
8th Leiden International Short Film Experience // Leiden, Netherlands // April
CineAutopsia, Bogota' Experimental Film Festival // Bogota', Colombia // April
Syracuse International Film Festival // Syracuse, NY // April
2015
Pori Film Festival, POFF // Pori, Finland // November
Fuse Factory Electronic and Digital Arts Lab, Ohio State University // Columbus, OH // September
Lucca Film Festival-Europacinema // Lucca, Italy // March
Cultural Center of Kalamata // Kalamata, Greece // March
2014
8th London Greek Film Festival // London, UK // October
2013
Miden Video Art Festival 2013 // Kalamata, Greece // July
2012
7th London Greek Film Festival // London, UK // October
J & J Gallery // Syracuse, NY // May (preview)
Dumbo Arts Center // Brooklyn, NY // May
Syracuse University Art Gallery // Syracuse, NY // April
2011
XL Projects // Syracuse, NY // March (preview)
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