Documentary Films - Out of Competition 2015 / My Friend Larry Gus / Greece 2015
This unconventional movie, clearly no standard portrait, focuses on the director’s friendship with a spontaneous Greek musician nicknamed Larry Gus, who was recently signed by the independent DFA Records label. The film is conceived as a playful probe into the soul of an eternal child who, even as he approaches 30, is happiest goofing off with friends, uncovering his background, and thinking of new ways to experiment with music.
In 2006 Pananagiotis Melidis, an 18-year-old from the town of Veria in northern Greece, decided to dedicate himself to music. He invented the pseudonym Larry Gus and began mixing traditional Greek musical motifs with dance rhythms and electronica, and the results were intriguing. Almost a decade later his good friend Vasilis Katsoupis decided to shoot a movie about him – a work that is spontaneous, wild, vaguely vulgar, punk, joyful, totally open, and direct. A style that most faithfully corresponds to the subject’s unique character. This unconventional movie, clearly no standard portrait, focuses on the director’s friendship with the passionate musician, who was recently signed by the independent DFA Records label. The merely occasional use of Larry Gus concert footage suggests that the film is actually a playful probe into the soul of an eternal child who, even as he approaches 30, is happiest goofing off with friends, uncovering his background, and thinking of new ways to experiment with music.
Filip Šebek
72 min / Color, DCP
World premiere
Director Vasilis Katsoupis
/ Dir. of Photography Vasilis Katsoupis
/ Music Larry Gus
/ Editor Gregory Rentis
/ Producer Giorgos Karnavas
/ Production heretic
/ Coproduction Filmiki
/ Contact Heretic
Vasilis Katsoupis (b. 1977, Volos, Greece) studied media and film in the UK, which led to a lecturing job at the Cinema School of Thessaloniki’s Aristotle University. He currently lives and works in Athens, cooperating with Filmiki Productions and directing television commercials and music videos.
Heretic
Tzavella street 52, 154 51, Athens
Greece
Phone: +30 210 600 5260
E-mail: [email protected]
Vasilis Katsoupis
Larry Gus
Protagonist
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