Film director and visual artist. She was born in Athens in 1950. She studied Architecture in Athens; Film Direction and Editing at the Institut des Hautes Etudes Cinématographiques (I.D.H.E.C. – promotion 30, 1977) in Paris; and Film Theory with Christian Metz. She has directed four full-length fiction films, which were screened in international film festivals and contemporary art museums. She has also shot several short films and created visual installations. She uses art history and her dreams as raw material for her work, “distancing [herself] from reality in order to reach out to the Real”. The inversion and juxtaposition of codes, as well as the dream-mechanism and the uncanny, constitute her main creative strategies. The complexity of cinematic heterogeneity and the narrative multiplicity of the different filmic elements characterise her work. She is Assistant Professor in Film Direction in the Film School at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, where she uses experimentation as a teaching technique. She has also taught Film Theory at the Universities of Patras, Thessaly and the Aegean. She is a member of the European Film Academy (E.F.A.). She is a founding member of the Hellenic Film Academy (H.F.A.), of which she has been the vice-president from 2009 to 2011. Her films have been awarded several prizes. A retrospective tribute to her work as a whole was included in the 46th International Thessaloniki Film Festival (2005), where she was given the golden Alexander prize, and a monograph on her work was published.

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