Konstantinos CHatzinikolaou

Konstantinos Chatzinikolaou was born in 1974 in Athens. He engaged in the production of Super 8 films (tiny silent documentaries without scripts that create timeless images) and their screening through the Kine Group in improvised spaces (rooftops, private venues), art galleries, and contemporary art installations in Athens. His screenplay for the short film "Meeting of Two Stories by Ioannis M. Damvergis" was awarded by the National Book Center in 2006 as part of that year's adapted screenplay competition. His play "Antiskylos," directed by Thodoris Abatzis, was presented at the New Creators' Playwriting Festival of the National Theatre at the Contemporary Theatre of Athens in March 2009. The film "Peacock" (Super 8/video, 2003/2013) participated in the 4th Athens Biennale in October 2013 on Sofokleous Street, titled Agora. He took part in documenta 14 in 2017 with two works: "Anestis" (Super 8 film transferred to 3' digital video, two handmade hardcover books with original text and stills from archival video), based on the novel "The Tholami" by Nikos Kasdaglis (Benaki Museum), and "Woyzeck" (Super 8 film transferred to 23' digital video without sound, three handmade hardcover books with original text), based on Büchner's work (Neue Galerie, Kassel). His poems have been published in literary magazines ("Poetics") and included in anthologies ("Futures: Poetry of the Greek Crisis," translated and edited by Thodoris Chiotis, Penned in the Margins, 2015). Since 2015, he has been writing articles on book and literature topics for the "Arts and Letters" supplement of the newspaper "Kathimerini." His first novel, "Iakovos" (Antipodes, December 2016), was supported during its writing phase by the joint Authors, Translators, and Publishers Support Program of the Greek and French National Book Centers (EKEBI-CNL), 2011-2013.