Vouvoula Skoura

Birthplace

Thessaloniki, Greece

Biography

Vouvoula Skoura was born in Thessaloniki. She studied Graphic Arts at the Athens Institute of Technology (ATI). She lived in London during the dictatorship in Greece, where she attended Art History courses (1970) and a Computer Graphics for Video seminar at Middlesex Polytechnic (1988). She worked with experimental mixed media on photography, which she applied both to her prints (books, posters) and to her films. Her works, both film and video, have been presented at international festivals and universities in more than fifty cities (Athens, Beirut, Berlin, Bilbao, Brussels, Cetinje, Chania, Krakow, Delphi, Ghent, Frankfurt, Kassel, Leeds, London, Naples, Patras, Pristina, São Paulo, Sofia, Strasbourg, Tampere, Thessaloniki, etc.), as well as on ERT1, ARTE and the BBC. She has collaborated with the Ministry of Culture, the Athens Concert Hall, the Municipal Council of Thessaly, the Municipal Council of Patras and many other cultural institutions, such as the Aplo Theatre, the Attis Theatre, the Fournos Digital Culture Center, Patras – European Capital of Culture and the KAM (Center for Mediterranean Architecture). Her films Internal Migration (1984) and Slag of Light (1989) were awarded a special mention by the Jury at the Drama Festival. The video Black Moon won first prize at the Athens Video Art competition (1998). The film Ethel Adnan: Exiled Words won the Greek Film Center Award at the 10th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival (2008). In 2009 she was honored with the EBGE Lifetime Achievement Award of the Graphic Designers Association of Greece. From the Thessaloniki Film Festival website.