Jim Stamatakos
b. 1961, Melbourne, Australia.

BIOGRAPHY:   Jim Stamatakos is a film and video maker and photographer. Beginning with Wig Out in 1994, he has directed and produced a number of short films. In 1995, Paris-New York-London was screened continuously throughout the Antipodes Festival exhibition ‘Neophytes IV’, where his photography was also exhibited. His photography has also appeared in the Australian/Greek magazine Thifonies and in Country Road catalogues.

Jim was also the director/producer of a series of television programs for Local Vision (Optus Vision) titled Techne Arts in Melbourne which were broadcast in 1996.

Jim has undertaken studies into many aspects of film-making, including animation, Super 8, video, and in 1997, he completed the Certificate of Media (film-making) at Footscray Secondary College. He is currently completing the Diploma of Professional Writing and Editing at Holmesglen Tafe.

He is also the founder and director of Electric Shorts, a program of self-funded shorts that screened at the Fringe Festival in October 2002.

	Misfortune

CRITICAL OVERVIEW:   

Jim Stamatakos’ films are dark and haunting.

He goes against the one-joke short film that has saturated the Australian market in recent times.

To Jim, film is about feeling, mood and self-interpretation.

His short films are no-to-low budget and are usually experimental/narrative.

	Telos

FILMOGRAPHY:

Wig Out (1994, 2 mins, Super 8/video)

Paris-New York-London (1995, 6 mins, Super 8/video)

Trilogy of Horror Part 1 (1996, 16 mins, SVHS)

Techne-Arts in Melbourne (1996, Six 15-minute Betacam television programs for Local Vision)

Pictures of You (1996, 3 mins, B&W, silent, Super 8)

Regurgitate (1997, 3 mins, Hi8/Betacam)

	Lilith

Bring Forth Monsters (1997, 4 mins, Super 8/Umatic)

Misfortune (1998, 4 mins, 16mm/Betacam)

Telos (2002, 8 mins, 16mm/DV)

Lypi (2004, 4 mins, color, 16mm/DV)

Take me Away (2005, 4 mins, DV, Music Video)

Lilith (2006, 5 mins, 16mm)

Collide (2008, 14 mins, DV)

Once for Yes, Twice for No (2008, 17 mins, HD)

Anastasi (2008, 16mm, in Pre Production currently)

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