Mikes Karapiperis

Born on the island of Kalymnos, he studied drawing and, in 1952, he began working, mainly in film, but also in the theatre. He started off as an assistant to director Nikos Tsiforos on his film Daddy's in Training, but halfway through the film he switched over to the sets, and since then worked as an assistant to many omportant Greek set designers. He also worked as an assistant set designer on the films America America (1963) by Elias Kazan, and Zorba the Greek (1964) by Michael Cacoyannis, as well as on 18 foreign films and 4 foreign stage productions. However, the most significant aspect of his oeuvre involves the sets and costumes he designed for the so-called New Greek Cinema, collaborating on films by directors such as: N. Koundouros, D. Makris, S. Tsiolis, and F. Lambrinos, as well as on the majority of fillms by Theo Angelopoulos after Days of '36. He repeatedly received awards from the Thessaloniki Film Festival, as well as State Prizes, honouring the quality of his artistic work.

Yorgos Ziakas

Yorgos Ziakas was born in the village of Sykourio, Larissa, in 1940. He grew up in Larissa and has lived in Athens since 1960. He is well known in the theatre from his significant work both in Greece and abroad. He has worked with all State theatres, most Municipal Regional theatres (especially the Theatres of Thessaly and Kalamata), the Theatrical Organisation of Cyprus, as well as with independent theatre companies. He has designed the costumes for the most of the films by Theo Angelopoulos, and he has designed the sets and costumes for the films of numerous other distinguished directors of the Greek cinema. He studied at the School of Fine Arts and, since 1991, he has taught there, at the Department of Painting and the Workshop for Set Designing.

Yorgos Patsas

George Patsas was born in Thessaloniki. He studied at the School of Fine Arts and was taught by G. Vakalo, P. Tetsis, V. Katraki, A. Baharian and others. He has stage-designed about 350 works for the theatre and film. He has worked with most theatres in Athens and with theatres abroad, such as the Volkstheater in Vienna, the Scauspeilhaus in Zurichm the Standttheater in Lucarne, the McCarter theatre at Princeton, N.J., the Festival of Merda in Spain, the Landestheater at Tibigen in Germany, the Taganka Theatre in Moscow and the Olimpico Vicenza in Italy. At the exhibition of scenery and costumes from the films by Theo Angelopoulos, George Patsas exhibis models and photographs of his work on The Travelling Players, The Suspended Step on the Stork, and Eternity and a Day where he supervised the costumes, and Ulysses' Gaze where he did the state design.