Yianni Rowlands
- Director
- Editor
- Writer
Yianni Rowlands is an Australian writer and director working across narrative, commercial, music videos and video art. His work aims to challenge and interrogate abstractions in the everyday, specifically investigating the limits of human perception...
In 2023, Rowlands joined forces with creative content agencies GUILTY and Positive Ape, directing work for clients including STIHL, McCain, Clothing The Gaps, The Melbourne International Film Festival, The Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, among others. Rowlands has also collaborated with a range of musical and visual artists including the ARIA award-winning punk rock band Amyl and the Sniffers and Grace Cummings.
Rowlands' has a background in stop-motion animation. As a teenager he received the runner up and top prize at Trop Jr (2012, 2016) for his stop-motion shorts. He is a graduate of the Bachelor of Fine Arts (Film and Television) at the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA).
With some short films under his belt and more in the making - produced under his independent production company Persistence Productions - his aim is to write and direct feature films and limited series. He has a handful of projects in various stages of development - spanning from original narrative work to adaptations.
In 2023, Rowlands joined forces with creative content agencies GUILTY and Positive Ape, directing work for clients including STIHL, McCain, Clothing The Gaps, The Melbourne International Film Festival, The Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, among others. Rowlands has also collaborated with a range of musical and visual artists including the ARIA award-winning punk rock band Amyl and the Sniffers and Grace Cummings.
Rowlands' has a background in stop-motion animation. As a teenager he received the runner up and top prize at Trop Jr (2012, 2016) for his stop-motion shorts. He is a graduate of the Bachelor of Fine Arts (Film and Television) at the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA).
With some short films under his belt and more in the making - produced under his independent production company Persistence Productions - his aim is to write and direct feature films and limited series. He has a handful of projects in various stages of development - spanning from original narrative work to adaptations.