In this edition of Meet the Filmmakers, David Thompson travels to the Greek island of Hydra to meet up with Athina Rachel Tsangari and discuss her directorial philosophy and what it means to “live cinema.”
Directed by Athina Rachel Tsangari • 1994 • United States
Lizzie is a girl who just can’t seem to make things fit together. Athina Rachel Tsangari’s short, made in 1994 as a film school assignment, contains early permutations of ideas and imagery that she has continued to develop in her later wo...
Directed by Athina Rachel Tsangari • 2000 • Greece, United States
Starring Lizzie Curry Martinez, Maria Tsantsanoglou, Gary Price
Developed over five years in collaboration with its actors, this genre-spanning examination of postmillennial alienation and dislocation by Athina Rachel Tsangari mer...
Directed by Athina Rachel Tsangari • 2010 • Greece
Starring Ariane Labed, Vangelis Mourikis, Evangelina Randou
Part of the new wave of Greek cinema, ATTENBERG is an offbeat coming-of-age film. Twenty-three-year-old Marina is living in a small factory town by the sea where her once-visionary arc...
