
Directing
Fil Ieropoulos
Athens, Greece
Fil Ieropoulos is a director of queer experimental films. He was born in Athens, Greece in 1978, studied film and cultural studies in the UK and in 2010 he completed his PhD with a specialisation in film poetry at the University of Kent. Since 2003 he has been a Senior Lecturer at Buckinghamshire New University. He has participated in festivals, exhibitions and conferences in Greece, the UK, Germany, Switzerland, the US, working with the Greek National Opera, Athens & Epidaurus Festival, Neuköllner Oper, Athens Biennale, the Onassis Institute, Freud Museum, the Athens School of Fine Arts etc. His film ORFEAS2021, a queer adaptation of Claudio Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo, was nominated at the Hellenic Film Awards.
Acting credits
NRGolfe is an adaptation of the 19th-century bucolic idyll of Golfo and the eponymous first silent feature film of Greek cinema in 1914. The film reimagines the classic late 19th-century greek drama in a 21st-century context rethinking the recent European economic and political crisis between Greece and Germany. The new story of Golfe highlights particular ideological traits that gained popularity within the indignation movement and parliamentary politics in Greece during the time of an imminent Grexit. The film employs elements of Esoteric Nazism, Perennialism, Eurasianism, and the Third-Rome doctrine to reflect on nationalism and the dark ideological intricacies of that period.
Golfe
2017
NRA diaristic chronicle around the injured body, pain, mourning, obsessive thoughts and the inability to communicate. Veronique and Filtig build a complex relational drama where family trauma meets post-apocalyptic despair.
Trilogy XYZ
2020
NRFYTA become plants dressing up as people staging a theater play about plants. The mirroring of embodiment, fantasy and representation creates a series of surreal interactions where sexuality meets relaxation, impossible relationships find theatrical resolutions and an excursion to a deserted resort turns into post-human documentary on nature.
Plants on Holiday
2018
Behind the camera
NRA psychedelic docu-essay, inspired by Arthur Rimbaud’s visionary poem Une Saison en Enfer, in which the poet’s ghost travels through history, encountering revolutionary figures and queer ‘freaks’ such as Emma Goldman, David Wojnarowicz, and Marsha P. Johnson. These encounters form a multilayered collage that interrogates identity, the meaning of revolution, and the role of the artist in shaping radical histories and collective imaginaries.
Uchronia
2026
NRA psychedelic docu-essay, inspired by Arthur Rimbaud’s visionary poem Une Saison en Enfer, in which the poet’s ghost travels through history, encountering revolutionary figures and queer ‘freaks’ such as Emma Goldman, David Wojnarowicz, and Marsha P. Johnson. These encounters form a multilayered collage that interrogates identity, the meaning of revolution, and the role of the artist in shaping radical histories and collective imaginaries.
Uchronia
2026
NRGolfe is an adaptation of the 19th-century bucolic idyll of Golfo and the eponymous first silent feature film of Greek cinema in 1914. The film reimagines the classic late 19th-century greek drama in a 21st-century context rethinking the recent European economic and political crisis between Greece and Germany. The new story of Golfe highlights particular ideological traits that gained popularity within the indignation movement and parliamentary politics in Greece during the time of an imminent Grexit. The film employs elements of Esoteric Nazism, Perennialism, Eurasianism, and the Third-Rome doctrine to reflect on nationalism and the dark ideological intricacies of that period.
Golfe
2017
NRTrud is a video performance/comment on the capitalist production and reproduction of the self. Between welding and ironing, everything is work, labor, pain.
Trud
2019
9.0A retro-futurist story of utopian politics, ideological conflicts, supernatural leaders and totalitarian spectacle. Cyberpunk queer pirates against rainbow homo-capitalist normies. Revolution vs reformism; logic vs affect. The trappings of post-internet identity politics through a contemporary take of the myth of Orpheus.
Orfeas2021
2021
NRA diaristic chronicle around the injured body, pain, mourning, obsessive thoughts and the inability to communicate. Veronique and Filtig build a complex relational drama where family trauma meets post-apocalyptic despair.
Trilogy XYZ
2020
NRA short film based on the short story "3.14 thoughts in order not to think of you" from Andriana Minou's book, "Underage Noirs" (Strange Days Books). Featuring Alpha Kartsaki and voiced by Tianna Rowland-Furini. It was filmed on a 1984 VHS Panasonic camcorder.
Sunday
2015
NRBrace yourselves for a meta-tantric experience, where affirmation and post/anti-cybernetic nature unite. Discarding a world of deception and illusionary appearance, subjects and objects collide in a carnal triumph. At once earthly and metaphysical. Combustion of intertwining remains.
Filetisierung
2011
NRFYTA become plants dressing up as people staging a theater play about plants. The mirroring of embodiment, fantasy and representation creates a series of surreal interactions where sexuality meets relaxation, impossible relationships find theatrical resolutions and an excursion to a deserted resort turns into post-human documentary on nature.
Plants on Holiday
2018
7.2Avant-Drag! paints portraits of ten drag artists of varying gender expressions and sexualities who take to the streets of Athens to query, problematise and (yes, please!) undermine social strictures. Employing wildly imagined personas – like riot housewives and Albanian turbo-folk girls – who perform acts as revolutionary as praising abortion and as charming as drawing childish pictures, these artists call for social justice by taking aim at conservatism, patriarchy, patriotism, racism and sexism.
Avant-Drag!
2024
