Christos Sarris

Christos Sarris works at the Onassis Foundation as Head of Creative and is responsible for the Foundation’s digital stage for the past four-and-a-half years. For twenty-five years, he has built a significant track record as a photographer on a worldwide level, working in Miami and Paris among others, while in the last fourteen years he has been also engaged with documentary films. For a certain period, he served as a volunteer in the Public Relations team of the Médecins du Monde – Greece (Doctors of the World), based in Perama. He remained in the area for ten months and it was there that he filmed his first documentary based on the stories of the visitors at the MdM’s polyclinic. As a photographer and director, he has collaborated with BBC World and actively with VICE Greece. Music plays a vital role in his overall work. The series of filmed live performances “Stages A/Live,” produced by the Onassis Foundation and available on its YouTube channel, is conceived and executed by him. Among his other musical collaborations, it is worth noting the film direction of Jeff Mills’ mesmerizing performance at the archaeological site of Delos island, set against the backdrop of the UNESCO world cultural heritage monument, and his recent first stage direction for the musical performance entitled “Beyond the Sea,” with contemporary rearrangements of songs of the eminent composer Yannis Markopoulos by Pavlos Pavlidis.