Thomas Künstler was born in Rome 1991.
He studied film production in England at UCA Farnham.

Thomas writes:
My passion for film started with stop motion animation when I was 14. Stop motion has always been therapeutic for me, as every time I was feeling bad or heartbroken, I was doing a video, converting all the bad in something “beautiful”, giving shape to my emotion. While studying in England I shared the house with 2 Greek friends from Athens. There I had my very first encounters with Greek culture and was introduced to Greek music by artists from Roza Eskenazi to Imam Baildi. I fell in love with the music and the culture. In this arch of period I learned to speak Greek, thanks to the hours spent listening to the music.

About the video

I made this video in the Spring. I uploaded it on Vimeo, but I never shared it, so no one saw it.

I filmed it in 4 nights in a big rush without any particular pretense. I made it so quickly because I planned to go from Rome to Athens on foot - 45 days (Rome to Bari and Patra to Athens, walking all the way).

The video was made for a girl; this explains the theme. Nevertheless, she never cared so I shared it anyway, because it was something that I put a lot of passion, feelings and work into. For the video, I was mainly inspired by the music itself, as well as by the famous film "Rembetiko" by C. Ferris, as well as pictures of the rembetiko era that I saw here and there. - T.K.

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