Athina Rachel Tsangari

Athina Rachel Tsangari

Nacimiento : 1966-03-31, Athens, Greece

Historia

Athina Rachel Tsangari is a Greek filmmaker. Some of her most notable works include her feature films, The Slow Business of Going (2000), Attenberg (2010) and Chevalier (2015) as well as the co-production of Yorgos Lanthimos films Kinetta (2005), Dogtooth (2009), and Alps (2011). In her versatile work for cinema, she has also founded and been director of the Cinematexas International Short Film Festival. In 2014-2015, she was invited to Harvard University’s Visual and Environmental Studies department as a Visiting Lecturer on Art, Film, and Visual Studies. Tsangari was born in Athens, Greece. She holds a university degree from the Faculty of Philosophy of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, and two post-graduate diplomas: an MA in performance studies from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, and an MFA in Film Directing from the University of Texas at Austin. Her first experience working in film was with a small role in Richard Linklater's 1991 film Slacker. Since then, Tsangari has assumed multiple roles within the film industry.

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Athina Rachel Tsangari

Películas

Ladies in Waiting
Producer
As the era of psychiatric asylums in Europe draws to an end, Ladies in Waiting opens a window to its past. Through the unique perspectives of caregivers from the Psychiatric Hospital of Attica - the last remaining one in Greece - and the lives of care-receivers, we take a peek inside the taboo world of mental illness.
La excavadora
Producer
Cuando Jonny visita a su padre Nikitas en su cabaña en el bosque después de 20 años, el ermitaño lo ignora. Pero para evitar que el suelo fangoso sea arrancado de debajo de sus pies por razones de lucro, padre e hijo deben cavar profundamente en él ...
30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing
Director
Over 30 filmmakers and friends of Strand Releasing have come together to honor the company’s indelible contribution to independent cinema over the past thirty years. The participating filmmakers have each created a short film for the project, all shot on iPhones.
Luciérnagas
Co-Producer
Ramin es un joven gay de 30 años. Huyó de la persecución en Irán, y después de viajar clandestinamente en un barco desde Turquía llegó a la ciudad portuaria tropical de Veracruz, México. Allí está viviendo en el limbo del exilio, lejos de todo lo que sabe. Su nostalgia y melancolía se confrontan con nuevas amistades, mientras comienza a redescubrir sus propios deseos.
Reneepoptosis
Thanks
Three Renees go on a quest to find God, who is also Renee. As they cross the mountains and valleys of Renee, they discover all the great joys, tragedies, and mysteries of being Renee.
Preparation
Producer
Three generations of women in one household do what they can to prepare for the impending loss of one of their number.
After Before
Director
A documentary that takes a look at the production of BEFORE MIDNIGHT. As the film starts, Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke are sitting around as filming has just completed. From here we get some terrific stories as they talk about the characters as well as what they bring and take from them. We also get footage from the filming of the movie where we get to see how the actors and director work together to try and build up the scenes.
After Before
Sound
A documentary that takes a look at the production of BEFORE MIDNIGHT. As the film starts, Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke are sitting around as filming has just completed. From here we get some terrific stories as they talk about the characters as well as what they bring and take from them. We also get footage from the filming of the movie where we get to see how the actors and director work together to try and build up the scenes.
After Before
Cinematography
A documentary that takes a look at the production of BEFORE MIDNIGHT. As the film starts, Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke are sitting around as filming has just completed. From here we get some terrific stories as they talk about the characters as well as what they bring and take from them. We also get footage from the filming of the movie where we get to see how the actors and director work together to try and build up the scenes.
After Before
Producer
A documentary that takes a look at the production of BEFORE MIDNIGHT. As the film starts, Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke are sitting around as filming has just completed. From here we get some terrific stories as they talk about the characters as well as what they bring and take from them. We also get footage from the filming of the movie where we get to see how the actors and director work together to try and build up the scenes.
After Before
Self
A documentary that takes a look at the production of BEFORE MIDNIGHT. As the film starts, Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke are sitting around as filming has just completed. From here we get some terrific stories as they talk about the characters as well as what they bring and take from them. We also get footage from the filming of the movie where we get to see how the actors and director work together to try and build up the scenes.
The Invisible Hands
Executive Producer
Maverick underground American/Lebanese musician and ethnomusicologist Alan Bishop (Sun City Girls and Sublime Frequencies), lands as a stranger in Cairo, soon after the 2011 uprisings, and teams up with three young Egyptian musicians for the translation of his old songs into Arabic. Under Bishop’s mentorship, this unlikely collaboration transforms into a band, The Invisible Hands.
Hold Me (Ca Caw Ca Caw)
Thanks
Flap flap flap flap. A large bird and a small boy cohabit in an unhappy relationship, trapped by four walls and a mutual codependence. The fragile balance of their relationship is cracked by a new arrival.
Chevalier
Screenplay
En medio del mar Egeo, seis hombres se encuentran en pleno viaje de pesca, en un lujoso yate, para jugar a un juego. Durante este juego serán comparadas varias cosas, que serán medidas. Las canciones serán acribilladas, y la sangre analizada. Los amigos se convertirán en rivales. Pero al final del día, cuando el juego termine, el hombre que gane será "el mejor hombre". Y podrá llevar en su dedo meñique el anillo de la victoria. (FILMAFFINITY)
Chevalier
Director
En medio del mar Egeo, seis hombres se encuentran en pleno viaje de pesca, en un lujoso yate, para jugar a un juego. Durante este juego serán comparadas varias cosas, que serán medidas. Las canciones serán acribilladas, y la sangre analizada. Los amigos se convertirán en rivales. Pero al final del día, cuando el juego termine, el hombre que gane será "el mejor hombre". Y podrá llevar en su dedo meñique el anillo de la victoria. (FILMAFFINITY)
The Benaki Museum
Writer
A great video directed by the award winning director Athina Rachel Tsangari and narrated by Willem Dafoe about the history and the importance of the Museum Benaki.
The Benaki Museum
Director
A great video directed by the award winning director Athina Rachel Tsangari and narrated by Willem Dafoe about the history and the importance of the Museum Benaki.
24 Frames per Century
Production Design
This short piece by Athina Rachel Tsangari, commissioned for the seventieth edition of the Venice Film Festival in 2013, draws on Jean-Luc Godard's "Contempt" and functions as a meditation on the state of cinema, depicting two film projectors contemplating the uncertainty of their future.
24 Frames per Century
Sound Designer
This short piece by Athina Rachel Tsangari, commissioned for the seventieth edition of the Venice Film Festival in 2013, draws on Jean-Luc Godard's "Contempt" and functions as a meditation on the state of cinema, depicting two film projectors contemplating the uncertainty of their future.
24 Frames per Century
Screenplay
This short piece by Athina Rachel Tsangari, commissioned for the seventieth edition of the Venice Film Festival in 2013, draws on Jean-Luc Godard's "Contempt" and functions as a meditation on the state of cinema, depicting two film projectors contemplating the uncertainty of their future.
24 Frames per Century
Producer
This short piece by Athina Rachel Tsangari, commissioned for the seventieth edition of the Venice Film Festival in 2013, draws on Jean-Luc Godard's "Contempt" and functions as a meditation on the state of cinema, depicting two film projectors contemplating the uncertainty of their future.
24 Frames per Century
Director
This short piece by Athina Rachel Tsangari, commissioned for the seventieth edition of the Venice Film Festival in 2013, draws on Jean-Luc Godard's "Contempt" and functions as a meditation on the state of cinema, depicting two film projectors contemplating the uncertainty of their future.
Venice 70: Future Reloaded
Director
Made for the Venice Film Festival's 70th anniversary, seventy filmmakers made a short film between 60 and 90 seconds long on their interpretation of the future of cinema.
Antes del anochecer
Co-Producer
Han pasado dos décadas desde que se encontraron por primera vez en un tren en Vienna ('Antes del amanecer' (1995)), y más tarde en París ('Antes del atardecer' (2004)). Ahora es el turno de Grecia, páis en el que Celine y Jesse se encuentran de visita. La tercera entrega de la trilogía, retomando las vidas delos protagonistas, nueve años después de su segundo encuentro romántico y el misterio sobre cómo concluyó.
Antes del anochecer
Ariadni
Han pasado dos décadas desde que se encontraron por primera vez en un tren en Vienna ('Antes del amanecer' (1995)), y más tarde en París ('Antes del atardecer' (2004)). Ahora es el turno de Grecia, páis en el que Celine y Jesse se encuentran de visita. La tercera entrega de la trilogía, retomando las vidas delos protagonistas, nueve años después de su segundo encuentro romántico y el misterio sobre cómo concluyó.
Pearblossom Hwy
Producer
Friends Cory and Anna are drifting through life, struggling to find their place. Cory is sick of life in the desert and wants to be on a reality show so he can prove to his brother that he isn't a screw-up. Anna is in the country illegally, selling sex to save enough money to take her citizenship test. When Cory's brother visits and Anna's dying grandmother takes a turn for the worst, the two are forced to examine the direction of their lives
The Capsule
Set Designer
Seven girls, a mansion perched on a Cycladic rock, a cycle of lessons on discipline, desire and demise-infinitely.
The Capsule
Screenplay
Seven girls, a mansion perched on a Cycladic rock, a cycle of lessons on discipline, desire and demise-infinitely.
The Capsule
Director
Seven girls, a mansion perched on a Cycladic rock, a cycle of lessons on discipline, desire and demise-infinitely.
Alps
Producer
Una enfermera que trabaja por las noches en un hospital se ocupa de atender las necesidades de las familias que han perdido a sus seres queridos. Forma parte de un grupo llamado "Alps", cuyos miembros ofrecen, a cambio de dinero, reemplazar a los muertos en la vida diaria de esas familias.
Attenberg
Producer
Marina (Ariane Labed), una chica de 23 años, vive con su padre, un arquitecto, en una pequeña ciudad industrial experimental en la costa. Marina se siente extraña y repele todo contacto con la especie humana, con la que no se identifica. Se entretiene escuchando canciones, viendo los documentales de David Attenborough, y asistiendo a las clases de educación sexual de su única amiga, Bella (Evangelia Randou). Un día, un desconocido llega a la ciudad, justo cuando el padre de Marina se prepara para despedirse de un siglo XX que considera "sobrevalorado".
Attenberg
Screenplay
Marina (Ariane Labed), una chica de 23 años, vive con su padre, un arquitecto, en una pequeña ciudad industrial experimental en la costa. Marina se siente extraña y repele todo contacto con la especie humana, con la que no se identifica. Se entretiene escuchando canciones, viendo los documentales de David Attenborough, y asistiendo a las clases de educación sexual de su única amiga, Bella (Evangelia Randou). Un día, un desconocido llega a la ciudad, justo cuando el padre de Marina se prepara para despedirse de un siglo XX que considera "sobrevalorado".
Attenberg
Director
Marina (Ariane Labed), una chica de 23 años, vive con su padre, un arquitecto, en una pequeña ciudad industrial experimental en la costa. Marina se siente extraña y repele todo contacto con la especie humana, con la que no se identifica. Se entretiene escuchando canciones, viendo los documentales de David Attenborough, y asistiendo a las clases de educación sexual de su única amiga, Bella (Evangelia Randou). Un día, un desconocido llega a la ciudad, justo cuando el padre de Marina se prepara para despedirse de un siglo XX que considera "sobrevalorado".
Lovers of Hate
Executive Producer
Dos hermanos, Rudy y Paul, se verán forzados a enfrentarse cuando ambos se enamoran de la misma mujer. (FILMAFFINITY)
Canino
Associate Producer
Un matrimonio con tres hijos vive en una mansión en las afueras de una ciudad. Los chicos, que nunca han salido de casa, son educados según los métodos que sus padres juzgan más apropiados y sin recibir ninguna influencia del exterior. Creen que los aviones son juguetes o que el mar es un tipo de silla forrada de cuero. La única persona que puede entrar en la casa es Christine, guardia de seguridad en la fábrica del padre.
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Camera Operator
Dimitris Papaioannou's new piece is a "dissection of the male psyche," and seems to draw upon a range of influences including the work of Jean Genet, Rene Magritte and Robert Wilson. Inspiration for the show also came partly from Papaioannou's own experiences as a gay man in Greece.
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Director of Photography
Dimitris Papaioannou's new piece is a "dissection of the male psyche," and seems to draw upon a range of influences including the work of Jean Genet, Rene Magritte and Robert Wilson. Inspiration for the show also came partly from Papaioannou's own experiences as a gay man in Greece.
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Producer
Dimitris Papaioannou's new piece is a "dissection of the male psyche," and seems to draw upon a range of influences including the work of Jean Genet, Rene Magritte and Robert Wilson. Inspiration for the show also came partly from Papaioannou's own experiences as a gay man in Greece.
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Director
Dimitris Papaioannou's new piece is a "dissection of the male psyche," and seems to draw upon a range of influences including the work of Jean Genet, Rene Magritte and Robert Wilson. Inspiration for the show also came partly from Papaioannou's own experiences as a gay man in Greece.
Kinetta
Producer
Kinetta es una pobre y pequeña ciudad de Grecia, que, durante el invierno, es abandonada por los inmigrantes que trabajan en ella. Unos policías de paisano, apasionados por los automóviles, unos escribanos y unas mujeres rusas investigan una reciente serie de asesinatos que ocurrieron en la zona.
The Slow Business of Going
Director
Petra Going is a migrant cyborg, an agent of the Global Nomad Project: an international “Experience Data Agency” which sends hundreds of “receivers” like her to wander the globe and record a succession of random encounters. Periodically, they return to agency headquarters where they deposit their accumulated memories into an archive. This archive is available to users who then vicariously and virtually inhabit the ready-made landscapes of touristic consciousness. The motto of the GNP: “Nostalgia For Rent.”
Fit
Director
A surreal account of Lizzie as she struggles to make life fit.
Slacker
Cousin from Greece
Richard Linklater y su cámara se pasean durante un día por la ciudad de Austin, en Texas, y aparece ante nuestros ojos toda una galería de personajes, aparentemente sin relación entre ellos; entre los que encontramos desocupados, intelectuales, músicos, delincuentes, viejos anarquistas o gente de la calle. (FILMAFFINITY)
Harvest
Director
The new film by Athina Rachel Tsangari.