Dead Trees
Xenofon Nikolakopoulos
ABOUT THE MOVIE
After an extensive quarantine, due to the pandemic, I decided to deconstruct and rediscover the abandoned urban landscape.
“The Dead Trees” provided the stimuli. These rigid, lifeless, innumerable tree trunks of the electric lamp posts, which carry power lines and telecommunication networks, are the quintessence of western civilization. A timeless stream of a secluded life, spreading dizzyingly over meadows and forests, detached from nature and moral values.
Because we live in a world, which requires humans to be busy, but not happy.
Because humans, like Marathon runners, are engaged in an endless struggle to reach an impossible finish line.
Because we are modern Sisyphus.
CAST & CREW
Director Biography
Xenofon Nikolakopoulos was born in Athens, in 1981. He studied Computer Science Engineering at the National Technological Institute of Piraeus. From a very early age he was involved in photography, which he considers a means of communicating emotions, ideas and experiences. He has attended photography seminars at the Benaki Museum with Platon Rivelis, at Leica Academy with Stavros Andriotis, a photography workshop with Giannis Galanis, and has participated in several group exhibitions and photo albums.
Since 2017, he completed a videography seminar at SAE Athens and film directing workshops with Greek directors, such as Nikos Grammatikos. He has attended a sound directing seminar with Electra Venaki and today is a graduate student of the film directing department of IEK AKMI in Athens. Next year, he will continue his studies at the Metropolitan College of Athens, for a BA degree in film directing from Queen Margaret College in England.
Xenofon Nikolakopoulos
Director
Xenofon Nikolakopoulos
Writer
Xenofon Nikolakopoulos
Producer
Mirsini Nikolakopoulou Papamixail
Key Cast, “Mirsini”
