Thimios Bakatakis
Atene, Grecia
Thimios Bakatakis is a Greek cinematographer. He has served as a cinematographer for various feature films, short films, music videos, and commercials, often collaborating with director Yorgos Lanthimos on his projects. He is also working in the theater as a lighting designer.
Bakatakis was born in Athens, Greece in 1970, and attended Hellenic Cinema and Television School Stavrakos in the same city. He met director Yorgos Lanthimos while attending Stavrakos, whom he befriended and would later regularly collaborate with after their graduations. Bakatakis said that he and Lanthimos are "like family", and that "in every film we've done we've tried to discover a new style of shooting for it".
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