Efi Spyrou is a visual artist and filmmaker whose work bridges experimental cinema, video art, and performance, exploring human consciousness, movement, and the unseen layers of reality. With a background in sculpture, installation, and performance — and an MA in Fine Art from Athens School of Fine Arts and MA in Performance Design from UCL — she blends poetic imagery, sound, and choreography into hybrid narratives that challenge perception and reveal existential tensions.

Her short films "Identity in Between" and "Womanifesto" have screened and been awarded internationally, including at the Video Art & Experimental Film Festival (VAEFF), New York – Honorable Mention, the AVIFF Cannes Art Film Festival – Official Selection (Top 26 Art Films), the 12th Athens Avant Garde Film Festival (Greek Film Archive), the San Francisco Arthouse Short Festival – Best Experimental Short, and the On Art Festival, Poland (2023) – Official Selection. In 2024, she won the V.I.Z. Film Festival, Odessa and her short film "La Fila Lunga" in collaboration with artist Stefania Galegati (2022) – Biennale Arcipelago Mediterraneo (BAM), Palermo, Italy – Official Selection.

Spyrou has presented solo exhibitions at leading cultural institutions such as the Greek Pavilion at EXPO 2020 Dubai, A.G. Leventis Gallery (Nicosia), and Greenwich University (London), and her interdisciplinary work has received distinctions including the PPC Meets Art Award (2022) and the National Bank of Greece 175th Anniversary Art Award (2017).
Beyond her filmmaking, Spyrou is Founder and Creative Director of RUNONART, a nonprofit platform connecting contemporary art with community, and Artistic Director at Block722 Architects.

Short Bio
Efi Spyrou is a filmmaker and visual artist working across experimental cinema, video art, and performance. Her films have screened internationally — including at VAEFF New York (Honorable Mention), AVIFF Cannes (Top 26 Art Films), the Athens Avant Garde Film Festival, and San Francisco Arthouse (Best Experimental Short) — and have earned awards such as V.I.Z. Film Festival, Odessa (2024). With a background in fine art and performance (MA, UCL), Spyrou’s work merges poetic image, movement, and sound to explore human consciousness and the unseen dimensions of reality.

"My works are born at the threshold between the visible and the invisible — where image, body, and memory encounter silence and ambiguity. It is enough to ‘give yourself passionately to what you love,’ to reveal the world as you see it.”