Biography

Asteris Kutulas is a Greek-German author, filmmaker, conceptual artist and producer. He served as a writer and director of several film and ballet productions, as well as dramatic advisor for theatre and opera productions.

Born to Greek political immigrants in Romania in 1960, Asteris Kutulas and his family moved to East Germany in 1968. He graduated from Dresden's Kreuzschule and went on to study German literature and history of philosophy at Leipzig University. From 1980 to 2021, he has been working with the Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis, producing books, videos and over 40 music albums and organizing more than 150 concerts worldwide.

Since the early 1980s, Kutulas has worked as an author, producer, and director in various music and documentary film productions, as well as a director and dramaturge in theater and show productions. In April 2014, he completed work on the hybrid film "Recycling Medea," which had already been released in an unfinished version in Greek cinemas in 2013. In 2014, he began production on his film project "Dance Fight Love Die - On the Road with Mikis," which premiered at the International Hofer Filmtage on October 25, 2017, and was released in German cinemas on May 10, 2018. On July 27, 2018, the ballet "Electra" (music: Mikis Theodorakis, choreography: Renato Zanella) had its world premiere as part of the Festival of the Aegean, for which Kutulas wrote the script and co-directed.

In October 2021, Kutulas was honored with the Hans-Vogt-Filmpreis at the Hofer Filmtage, where Kutulas also presented his theory of Liquid Staging in the form of a demonstration of his ballet film installation "Electra 21," a work in which four films play simultaneously on four screens distributed throughout the space, fully synchronized to the Electra opera music by Mikis Theodorakis.

Asteris Kutulas is an events-industry veteran who has produced hundreds of shows and concerts worldwide since 1979 and has worked on numerous video and TV music productions with artists like Mike Oldfield, Scorpions, Motörhead, Klaus Schulze, Buena Vista Social Club and Westbam. He has worked as producer and partner for the 40 mega events directed by Gert Hof between 1999 and 2010 that have had an aggregate live audience exceeding 10 million people and worldwide media contacts amounting to several billions.

From 2010 to 2018 he has been the executive producer and artistic consultant of all Apassionata productions, the biggest European family entertainment show.

Asteris Kutulas founded Hellas Filmbox Berlin, the first Greek film festival in the German capital in 2016. He was the creative director of the festival till 2019.

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