Author: yzafeiriou
Added: Wed, 04 Jun 2008 09:52:42 -0800
Duration: 230

we govern we have been writing music together since Christmas '07 and already this is their second music video. It stars a handful of their friends from Athens, London & LA(rissa). As with dead pretty, there was a budget as low as no budget and was greatly helped by the charms of the director and the willingness of the charmed to be directed. We Govern We are eternally grateful to everyone involved, especially YOU as you pass this along... we govern we are: panos scourtis, anna karakalou/the abc monster, and you. bULLY was made with: 2 band members 61 volunteer performers (26 women, 33 men & 2 babies - though the babies were bribed...) 20 hours of filming over two days 100+ hours of post-production No animals were hurt in the making of this video (admittedly though, Sushi was a bit traumatized with the amount of people in the house...) Music, lyrics & performance by we govern we (www.myspace.com/wegovernwe) There is also a children's book based on the song in the works! Keep an eye out!! Director: Yannis Zafeiriou Art Director: Katerina Vlastari Post-Production: RED STUDIOS HD Camera by: Thanos Tsamis/Hellas Cinema Lights by: Dimitra Arvaniti BULLY STARS: zoobidoobi, kappa MYSTA, kos markatos, Lambathagoogly, Jordan bonyo, abe sexson, Skraf, Tzoni Tzo-Tzo, Ox, Evgen, Ian Joliet, Stel, Spyros and Nestor Tourloukis, Burt Lianos, JD, Pete Dimou, Greg Kartsos, Sushipizza, Ghassan, Fuduki, Dirty Harry, Panoukla, Eyejacker, Panouli, Skourtis, Neil Smith, Vassilakis, George, anapiros, neo, gateley, Akis Boyatzis, Polly Pocket, Theoula Karakalou, Shones, Maria Kassimis, Chryssoula, Beeyo, V, Elina, Margaret, Stefanie, Kell, Edna, Chris Purple, Athinea, Julie Anna Basil, Joanna Cave, Renee, dimitra Kalogeropoulou, Ioanna Avloniti, Sophia Ioannou, Anna Kosmoglou, Renee Koutras, Hari Gomarakis, Andromache Boyatzis, AND introducing Pupuki on his first day out... If you're not in the credits, PLEASE let us know who you are!! We are curious!! ;)

Author: yzafeiriou
Added: Wed, 04 Jun 2008 08:52:36 -0800
Duration: 60

This is the intro sequence I wrote and directed for a TV game show. I collaborated with an animator and a cartoonist to get the final result. We were given only a week to complete the project, before the show was to be on air.

Author: yzafeiriou
Added: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 11:16:17 -0800
Duration: 45

This is my Intro Video Submission for the On The Lot Film-making Reality Show, 2007 version. I wrote, directed and produced this video. Aris Zaglis was the animator, Dinos Mahairas the DOP, Marios Takoushis did the music, Thanos Tsamis did the editing & sound design, Giota Serafetinoglou the make-up, while Katerina Vlastari was my AD. I am a terrible actor, I know. Please try not to bring it up... Thanks. :-)

Author: yzafeiriou
Added: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 07:46:19 -0800
Duration: 240

This is the first music video of the fabulous & lovely band we govern we. (www.myspace.com/wegovernwe) It stars Anna Karakalou and Panos Scourtis, who are the core members of we govern we, as well as Kos Markatos, the song's producer and ever-so-slightly insane backing vocalist. Making this video was a group effort by a lot of talented people offering their help for free, like Katerina Vlastari, whose work and support was invaluable. The video was directed & edited by me (a much beloved friend of the band), and post-production was done by Red Studios. The budget was limited to 35 EURO and 27 CENTS (more or less to the cent). Please don't forget to tell your friends about us. And our friends if you run into them, in case we forget.

Author: yzafeiriou
Added: Sat, 29 Mar 2008 20:16:21 -0800
Duration: 357

Hermes is the first short film that I wrote/ produced & directed after University and the student films I made there. First inspiration for it came one late evening, when I heard a song by Chicane, (Saltwater - Thrillseekers Remix) on my car's CD player. I knew the song already, but it was the first time I heard the particular remix. A single image somehow invaded my thoughts while listening to it: A wheel chair, tipped over on the beach, next to the surf. I don't know where it came from, or what it was all about, but is was crystal clear. This image on the sandy beach haunted my thoughts. Instinctively, and while the song was approaching its end, I pressed repeat on the player. And kept pressing repeat, again and again. I tend to get like that with music I like (which is something that tends to drive people crazy), but something about this case was different. For about a week, every time I would get behind the wheel of my car, I would listen to the same song over and over. Each time, would be slightly different from the previous one, however they were all the same, in the sense that I started to get more images in my head as the week went on. Few days later, I had a basic concept of a story I had to tell. I decided I would let it go, and see what came of it out of my subconscious. Surprisingly enough, not a single aspect of the story diminished when I came to it again a few weeks later. This is when I decided to put pen to paper, or rather, bytes to memory, as I started the first draft of the script, which was to be Hermes. The rest is of little importance, as I of course went through all the usual trials and tribulations facing all the various production stages of a new film, faced by everyone who has ever attempted making a movie of any kind, I am sure. In the end, and after 2 years and a half in which many people shared in my vision and were willing to get involved in helping it come to life, I finally got in my hands the finished product. Despite it very much being my intellectual child, it is no longer my own. It was a team product, and every person involved, every event that affected the process of making Hermes, greatly added to or took away something from my original idea, making it better most of the time, or occasionally worse, but surely overall something greater than whatever I could have hoped for. That is, I feel, the beauty and wonder of any creative piece of work. It now belongs to everyone out there. People will either like it, hate it, or worse, be totally indifferent to it. It may affect some in many more ways, then again maybe not. I have of course moved on to making new things, and each new thing will always have a little journey of its own ahead. Hermes, however, no matter what, will always be my single tiny idea, come to life.