Born in 1982 in Limassol, Cyprus, Alexandros Pissourios is currently based between London and Cyprus.
His work weaves together ethnographic approaches with experimental cinema. Exploring the cinematographic and structural possibilites of 16mm cameras and film, he is interested in the tension between surface and what is underneath, switching between imagination and close observation. Notions around the passage of time and remembering make up for films in which people and places take center stage.
Education
2009-2007 (MA) Communcation Art and Design, Royal College of Art, London, UK
2007-2004 (BA Hons) Music and Visual Art, University of Brighton, UK
Screenings / Exhibitions
2024
Film, Memory and Trauma (screening)
CineClub at Etaller Space
Nicosia, Cyprus
April
Programmed by Nuné Tounjikian and Cindy Chehab
Every penny in the well (screening)
Film Diary NYC 3: Coldest Winter
Millenium Film Workshop, New York, USA
January
Programmed by Sage Ó Tuama and Saint Piñero
Documentary: Time will tell you nothing but I told you so (screening)
21st London Short Film Festival 2024
ICA, London UK.
January
Programmed by Akinna Aquino
2023
Two Films by Alexandros Pissourios (screening)
Close Up Cinema
London, UK
November
Programmed by Alexandros Pissourios
Seeing Through Melancholia: Transcultural Melancholias /
Hüzün in the East Mediterranean (exhibition)
House of Hadjigeorkakis Kornesios
Nicosia, Cyprus
October
curated by Dr Alev Adil and Dr Gabriel Koureas
Three Films with movement (screening)
Cubitt Gallery,
London, UK
Programmed by Sean Elders
Love, sex, loss (screening programme)
3rd Queerwave Film Festival
SPEL
Nicosia, Cyprus
September
Programmed by Alexandros Pissourios
A Full Life, I suppose (screening)
15th Lemesos International Documentary Festival
Limassol, Cyprus
August
Programmed by The Island Club
2021
Fields of View (screening)
The Others
London, UK
17th September
programmed by Deniz Johns and Simon Payne
Ineffable Islands
Eight films from Cyprus
Space52
Athens, Greece
July 3, 2021 from 20:00 – 22:00
programmed by Argyro Nikolaou
6x6 Project
Online Project
Founded by Mirelle Borra
2020
And I wish you a happy life / I, Tony / 13 Photos
15th Lemesos International Documentary Festival
Limassol, Cyprus
September
Programmed by The Island Club
Together / Apart : Going New Places
Online Exhibition
Organised by the Cyprus High Commission in the UK -
Cultural Section and sponsored by the Cultural Services -
Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports and Youth of Cyprus.
May-June
curated by Marina Hadjilouka
And oh those eyes that were data-saturated
Online Project
Cultural Section of the Cyprus High Commission in the UK
June
Initiated by Leontios Toumpouris
Home movies
Online Screening
June
Programmed by collectiv-iz and xviix
2019
The BF Artist Film Festival X
Art Licks Weekend at FOLD
London, UK
October
2017
Supernormal Festival
Braziers Park, Oxfordshire, UK
August
screening by collective-iz
On Residual Agencies (screening)
Edinburgh Art Festival,
Morningside United Church,
Edinburgh, UK
Project by Leontios Toumbouris
Screening Programmed by Maria Anastassiou
Terra Mediterranea: In Action
NIMAC
Nicosia, Cyprus
5 September – 25 November
Curated by Yiannis Toumazis
Portraits (screening)
New River Studios
London, UK
Programmed by collectiv-iz
2016
Terra Mediterranea: In Action –
Über den flüssigen Kontinent
CCA
Leipzig, Germany
17 September – 20 November 2016
Curated by Michael Arzt & Yiannis Toumazis
Unseen Cinema
27th International Ankara Film Festival
Goethe Institute
Ankara, Turkey
Programmed by Deniz Johns
2015
At Colossi and the castles
Colossi Castle
Limassol, Cyprus
September
Curated by Nadia Anaxagorou
2014
Treasure Island
NiMAC [Nicosia Municipal Arts Centre,
Associated with the Pierides Foundation],
Cyprus Ministry of Education and Culture,
Cultural Services,
AHDR and SIDESTREETS Initiative
Nicosia, Cyprus
26 September – 08 November
Curated by Yiannis Toumazis, Louli Michaelidou,
Anber Onar, Despo Pasia,
Kyriakos Pachoulides, Elena Stylianou
Walking Methodologies
UCL Urban Laboratory at the Slade Research
Centre, UCL
London, UK
2013
Night loops
legion-tv.com
online project
2012
New Somatographies
50-1 gallery
Limassol, Cyprus
curated by Christos Kyriakides
We only dream of places and resistance, for now
LUX/ICA Biennial of Moving Image
ICA
London, UK
26 May 2012 – 27 May
curated by Carmel Billows
Fringe! Film Festival,
Hackney Town Hall
London, UK
programmed by Ben Walters
To build a garden
Visual Artists Association
Nicosia, Cyprus
curated by Elena Parpa
2011
On site
Barbican Exhibition Halls
London, UK
10 November - 11 November
Project directed by Sophie Clements and Nell Catchpole
Pop Nouveau
Isnotgallery
Nicosia, Cyprus
Reveries of will
Vamiali’s Gallery
Athens, Greece
13 September - 5 November
curated by Polys Peslikas
Under/Current magazine launch (screening)
Mörel Space
London, UK
25th London Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
British Film Institute
London, UK
programmed by Ben Walters
Robert Street Pop-Up Shop (screening)
Camden Council, London
Project by Maria Anastassiou and Chris Paul Daniels
2010
Notes to Self
OmikronG gallery
Nicosia, Cyprus
curated by Elena Parpa
Video is the only constant (screening)
Corsica Studios
London, UK
programmed by Christina Millare
2009
Acoustic Images (screening)
BFI
London, UK
Show TWO
Royal College of Art
London, UK
2008
CAAD Interim Show
Royal College of Art
London, UK
Equator Project,
St. Lukes church
London, UK
Acoustic Images
Royal College of Art
London, UK
2007
Screening at the Roxy
Roxy bar and screen
London, UK
2006
Urban Soul Festival
Nicosia, Cyprus