Dr Fil Ieropoulos

Before joining Buckinghamshire New University in 2003, I was working for Illuminations TV and the Arts Council, while also teaching at the City and Islington and West Herts colleges.

I studied for my PhD at the University of Kent and my specialist area of interest is the relationship between film and poetry/poetics. My film poetry articles have been quoted widely around the world and my research has led me to work with the Freud Museum, the Onassis Institute, the Arts Council of Britain, the Athens Biennale, the Greek National Opera, the Neukoellner Oper in Berlin, the Zurich Institute of Arts, the Athens School of Fine Arts, Metropolitan College, the Athens & Epidaurus Festival and the Unesco World Book Capital.  

In 2021, I directed my debut feature film ORFEAS2021, a collaboration with the Greek National Opera. The film competed at Thessaloniki International Film Festival and the Greek Academy Awards. It was screened in 17 countries, including prestigious venues such as Whitechapel Gallery, London and ICA, Boston. My second feature, Avant-Drag!, was officially selected at the International Film Festival Rotterdam and won a Special Jury Prize award at the Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival.

Other showcases, festivals and conference participations include Performance & Philosophy (Ljubljana), Sound Gender Feminism Activism (London College of Communication), AWEN Poetry Film Festival (Glamorgan), Trampoline New Media Festival (Nottingham), Directors’ Lounge (Berlin), Greek Film Archive (Athens), Technology & Transformations conference at BNU, Aarau One Minute Festival, Prism (Sheffield), nGBk (Berlin), the Bâtiment d’Art Contemporain (Geneva), Lux Cinema (London), The Museum of Club Culture (Hull), Art Athina (Athens), ReWorks (Thessaloniki), 291 Gallery (London), Athens Video Art Festival, Royal Holloway University.

I have published articles and texts for Edinburgh University Press, Studies in Theatre and Performance Journal, Thessaloniki Film Festival Publications, Feministiqa Journal, Nefeli Publishing, Atopos Contemporary Visual Culture, Poetry Film Live, Saint Martins British Artists’ Film & Video Study Collection.

View my Research Repository here.

• Senior Lecturer