Thodoris Vournas

BU-21 (2018)
Theater Director BU-21 is the code of an aircraft that was brought down by terrorists in summer 2017 above Fulham. The play follows the stories of six Londoners who survived the attack. The memories of this day, when hundreds of passengers died, are connected with images, traumas and wounds that each of them tries to heal in their own way.

BU-21 season 2 (2018)
Theater Director A rocket hits a passenger plane out of nowhere. Then a huge explosion follow up and BU21 fall on a central street of London . Six people recount the losses of that day, the trauma and the process of healing… What would you do if you were one of them?If those scenes from movies becomes reality right in front you?

Wedding Story (2017)
Commercial Director Commercial short film for Le Festin Concept Events.

Manoeuvres (2nd year) (2017)
Theater Director A young couple, Dario and Belen – the first an aspiring actor and the latter a military woman- strive to manoeuvre and remain intact from the reality that surrounds them, struggling with truth that finally proves to be tougher than lies themselves. A lieutenant and a director force them to confront authority, as well as their own essence. Authority in art and authority in war. When does exercising power becomes equal to the abuse of power? What is the role of the victimizer and that of the victim, when everyone is free to “manoeuvre” in their attempt to attain their goals? However, as they venture a manoeuvre, the social system interferes, limiting their freedom and depriving themselves of their ability to govern their own selves.

In The Dark (3rd year) (2016 - 2017)
Theater Director There is a moment, right before we go to sleep, that the defenses we have developed as we're getting old collapse. The doors we've managed to lock open and everything we drown inside us appears in front of our eyes. Sta Skoteina - Making Movies is a journal. They aren't monologues; they are a set of dialogues, a set of confessions. An excercise of realization and understanding. It's a path to the inside, a meeting with dark that wants to become light.

Manoeuvres (2017)
Theater Director A young couple, Dario and Belen – the first an aspiring actor and the latter a military woman- strive to manoeuvre and remain intact from the reality that surrounds them, struggling with truth that finally proves to be tougher than lies themselves. A lieutenant and a director force them to confront authority, as well as their own essence. Authority in art and authority in war. When does exercising power becomes equal to the abuse of power? What is the role of the victimizer and that of the victim, when everyone is free to “manoeuvre” in their attempt to attain their goals? However, as they venture a manoeuvre, the social system interferes, limiting their freedom and depriving themselves of their ability to govern their own selves.

The Spectator (2016)
Film (short) Director Thanos has detached himself from every feeling and watches his life as if it was a film.

Pariah (2016)
Theater Director Two men are in a farmhouse amid storm and fight for survival in the Darwinian theory of the fittest. Both have committed crimes against their former life. The first one forged a bill and imprisoned, while the other killed a man and escaped punishment. The presentation of the two stories and a sequence of witticisms that gradually reveal the truth, bring the two protagonists face to face struggle to prove who is more guilty and who has atoned for his sin.

In The Dark – Making Movies (2nd year) (2015 - 2016)
Theater Director There is a moment, right before we go to sleep, that the defenses we have developed as we're getting old collapse. The doors we've managed to lock open and everything we drown inside us appears in front of our eyes. Sta Skoteina - Making Movies is a journal. They aren't monologues; they are a set of dialogues, a set of confessions. An excercise of realization and understanding. It's a path to the inside, a meeting with dark that wants to become light.

Moral Rules | Spring Awakening (2016)
Theater Director Moral Rules is an adaptation of Frank Wedekind's Spring Awakening, written by Vasilis Tziokas in cooperation with the team of the performance. The adaptation takes place in Greece 2016, where we follow some days of the lives of 6 students, currently on the last year of a strict religious school. The 6 characters of the play display elements that potentially belong to each one of us, from sexual curiosity and promiscuity to fear towards the unknown, and from superficial communication to moral hypocrisy. 6 old students of ours meet us again during their own coming of age.

My Life in Art (2nd year) (2014 - 2015)
Theater Director A play, three people, all bound with their fake image. What happens when the actors start identifying with their roles? When the love scenes come to life when the lights go out? What is the role of the director in that case? Secrets, confessions and revelations. A love triangle where each one looks towards a different direction.

Archimedes’ Principle (2015)
Theater Director Synopsis The day when the "Little Seahorses", the children's swimming team, will start swimming without a lifesaver has come. This important moment for the youngest of the pool becomes an excuse for some suspicions, doubts and fears to emerge. Anna, the director of the swimming club, asks Jordi, the trainer of the "Little Seahorses", for account of his ways of dealing with a little boy's denial to go into the pool without the lifesaver due to being afraid of drowning. Jordi reassures her that he reacted with kindness, without confronting or scaring him. The parents, though, are worried that Jordi hugged and kissed the boy in order to make him feel safe. In the chlorine-filled environment of a public pool (a perfect parable of our extremely aseptic society), Jusep Maria Miró develops a story on an event that may or may not have happened. Is it an innocent kiss on the cheek, as the trainer keeps on repeating, or was there indeed a nasty intention? The events are presented from two exactly opposite points of view that remain unchanged throughout the performance. Thus, the viewer is the one that is up to solve this difficult dilemma. The problem that Archimedes' Principle puts is not whether the trainer is innocent or guilty, since there isn't any objective indication that can support the one or the other opinion. The play intends to make the viewer question the social model that is forced in the West. In the end, in Archimedes' Principle the public opinion condemns the trainer not for what he did, but for what he could have done.

https://vimeo.com/147471327 (2015)
Film (short) Director An aspiring screenwriter and a seasoned producer try to work out problems regarding their upcoming collaboration. One of the two will have to compromise, adding milk to his coffee.

In The Dark – Making Movies (1st year) (2015)
Theater Director There is a moment, right before we go to sleep, that the defenses we have developed as we\'re getting old collapse. The doors we\'ve managed to lock open and everything we drown inside us appears in front of our eyes. Sta Skoteina - Making Movies is a journal. They aren\'t monologues; they are a set of dialogues, a set of confessions. An excercise of realization and understanding. It\'s a path to the inside, a meeting with dark that wants to become light.

My Life In Art (2014 - 2015)
Theater Director Secrets, confessions, revelations inside and outside the theater. The boundaries between life and art are confused. A project within the project. What happens when the actors are they beginning to identify with their role? How can someone direct life itself?

My Life in Art (1st year) (2014)
Theater Director A play, three people, all bound with their fake image. What happens when the actors start identifying with their roles? When the love scenes come to life when the lights go out? What is the role of the director in that case? Secrets, confessions and revelations. A love triangle where each one looks towards a different direction.

Vigilantes (2013)
Two brothers define themselves as vigilantes and try to protect their property.

Night Out (2012)
Theater Director An night at the embassy, a night on the beach and Saint Valentine's Day. Three stories of people who prepare for a night out with an unpredictable ending. Night Out is a compound of three one-act plays by Vaggelis Tatsis and Thanasis Stavropoulos.

Crossing Over (2012)
Film (short) Director Time goes by and the age of success keeps on diminishing. What happens if someone can't stand the pressure? What will happen if they decide to put an end in their life to avoid facing the failure? Aris wakes up on a deserted beach. He meets Hades, who is charged with taking Aris to the other side in order for him to be considered officially dead. Will Aris get through reaching the end of the journey or has he taken the wrong decision when it's already too late to reconsider?

Away From Me (2011)
Theater Director A typical meeting. A paradoxical development. Two people tied to their fate. It's their world. Their only world. Revolutions of situations and relationships... Only because I do not exist away from you.

Desperados (2011)
Theater Director A group of friends who study at Thessaloniki are throwing their last party tonight. In a few hours, they will give their lawyer's oath and everyone will return to their repsective hometowns. "Tomorrow" is now "present". During the night and after the party's total failure, the troubles of today's youth are presented on stage filtered through humor and tenderness. The need for decision making about their personal and professional lives and the future of their friendship. The youth's need for a communication code, the understanding of a reality that changes rapidly in an age when requirements keep increasing. To which level are they determined to sacrifice their childhood's dreams to succeed professionally? Are those people able to cope with what their lifestyle demands? They have to decide. Tonight.

The Great Racket (2011)
Film (short) Director Makis and Anestis drink frappe and make plans for the big scam that will change their lives.

The Great Racket (2011)
Film (short) Director Makis and Anestis drink frappe and make plans for the big scam that will change their lives.

Human Voices (2010)
Theater Director People irrelevant to each other, coming from different worlds but joining them a common need: to tell their story, to hear their voice.

If I Lived Now (2010)
Theater Director Three hypothetical interviews with: Alexander the Great, Jesus Christ, Hariden Barbarossa from Nikos Lakopoulos under publication book If I live today.

Who Never Ever Regrets (2010)
Film (short) Director An encounter between two people who are united by their past.