Dr Tasos Giapoutzis

Biography

Tasos Giapoutzis is a Lecturer in Film and filmmaker while also serving as Subject Head of Film Studies and Director of the Centre for Film and Screen Media at the University of Essex. His interests as a researcher and filmmaker lie in the exploration of the filmmaking process, aesthetics of film and its multifaceted spatiotemporal features. More specifically, Tasos is interested in interactions between film and memory, nostalgia, place and displacement, and the intersections between fiction and non-fiction in contemporary cinema. As film director, he is an alumnus of Go Short Talent Campus in Nijmegen, Talent Development Campus in Cork as well as Reykjavik Talent Lab. In the past he worked on Distribution and Sales at the Feature Films Department of Red Bull Media House in Salzburg. Films he directed have participated at more than 100 film festivals worldwide. The feature documentary 'Quiet Life' (2019) premiered nationally at the 21st Thessaloniki Documentary Festival and internationally at the 18th DokuFest in Kosovo. Tasos is the author of the forthcoming monograph 'Nostalgia in Contemporary European Cinema' (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025) and the director of the feature-length docufiction film 'Mnemonic Muse' (2025).

Qualifications

• PhD in Film by Creative Practice University of York,

Appointments

University of Essex

• Director of Film and Screen Media, Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies, University of Essex (12/8/2024 - present)

• LiFTS Ethics Officer, University of Essex (17/1/2022 - 19/9/2024)

• International Partnerships Director, Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies, University of Essex (17/1/2022 - 31/5/2024)

• Athena Swan Lead and Inclusivity Officer, Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies, University of Essex (1/10/2021 - 16/12/2022)

• Selection Panel Representative, Panel C (Media and Creative Practice) , CHASE / AHRC Doctoral Studentships, University of Essex (1/2/2022 - 30/6/2022)

Other academic

• External Examiner - BA Film Studies, School of Film, Media, and Creative Technologies, University of Portsmouth (1/9/2024 - present)

• External Examiner - BA Film and Television, Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh (1/8/2024 - present)