BAK Productions Montreal: June 2008

Mimetoliths Movie

Mimetoliths a film about rocks and stones that look like living beings. Greece

MIMETOLITHS, a new 60-minute documentary by Montreal multi-media artist Algis Kemezys, is in the official programs of the Cyprus International Film Festival (March 24-27, 2006), and the Asterfest in Macedonia (May 28-31, 2006), as well as the Panorama section of Ecofilms RODOS (June 20-25, 2006)and Ischia Film Festival,Italy June 14,2006. & the United Nations Enviromental Film Festival ,Europe Sept. 2006
PEOPLES CHOICE AWARD 2006 Night Gallery Film Festival
Best Documentary Award 2006 Panorama Film Festival, Greece.

3 minute trailer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDqtJxPN-HY

Produced by Byron Ayanoglu
Director & Cinematographer Algis Kemezys
Music by Guthrie Lowe

Shapeshifter 2007

A man has a mid-life crisis while visitng India.

Chicago Short Film Festival - 2007
Festival de Cine Internacional de Barcelona - 2007
Golden Gate Fiction & Documentary Festival - 2007
MEDIA FACTORY SHOW TV #23 COX CABLE NETWORK

Produced by Byron Ayanoglu
Directed, Actor and Cinematographer Algis Kemezys
Music by Guthrie Lowe

MaSTerClasS 2009

Algis Kemezys spends winters in Crete, where he builds and photographs stone sculptures. This winter is a particular treat for him, as he meets and makes friends with Walter Lassally, one of the world’s great cinematographers. On top of his game since the fifties, Walter has created the defining images of one hundred films, including A TASTE OF HONEY, TOM JONES, ELECTRA and ZORBA THE GREEK, for which he won an Oscar in 1964. He lives in Stavros, very near the beach where Zorba was filmed and he’s still very much involved in cinema.
In the month of March, along with the spring flowers, Algis’s old friend Scotty Gardiner comes from Montreal. He is a professor of Communication Studies at Concordia, the author of psychology textbooks, and the creator of Scott Siliclone. He is invited to Greece as a symposiast in the reborn Plato’s Academy in Athens, and takes time out to visit Crete. Algis brings him to Stavros to meet Walter. An extensive dialogue ensues that reveals not only the trade secrets of each master’s field of expertise, but also the personalities of two veterans and their particular ways of dealing with their golden years.

Produced & Written by Byron Ayanoglu
Director & Cinematographer by Algis Kemezys
Musical Composer by Guthrie Lowe