Part of "Worlds Apart: The Films of Athina Rachel Tsangari," a retrospective of the Greek director's films presented by Acropolis Cinema and MUBI and running from April 17 through mid-May at 2220 Arts + Archives, Vidiots, and the Los Feliz 3
About the program:
FIT (Dir. Athina Rachel Tsangari, 1994, 8 min)
Lizzie discovers her inability to (and obsession with) fitting things inside of other things.
Reflections (Dir. Athina Rachel Tsangari, 2009, 8 min)
Mapping projections of analogue and digital animations at Acropolis Museum Opening Ceremony, 2009.
The Capsule (Dir. Athina Rachel Tsangari, 2012, 35 min)
Seven young women. A mansion perched on a Cycladic rock. A series of lessons on discipline, desire, discovery, and disappearance. A melancholy, inescapable cycle on the brink of womanhood - infinitely.
24 Frames Per Century (Dir. Athina Rachel Tsangari, 2013, 2 min)
A pair of film projectors discuss their impending obsolescence.
Secret film (Dir. Athina Rachel Tsangari, ???, ???)
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TRT: 76 min
In person: Athina Rachel Tsangari
"Tsangari's short films push boundaries in a most unsettling and gorgeous way." —Rod Machen, Cinapse
"Amidst her cinema of exile, [Fit] is a playful physical extrapolation on the concept of ‘fitting’." —Andréas Giannopoulos, Rough Cut
"An anthropological-satirical examination of daily life... Fit fixates on re-occurring themes of biology and ethnography." —Kiva Reardon, cléo
"The Capsule advances similar ideas [as Attenberg] in lively, shocking abstractions. It is truly a capsule of the filmmaker’s vision boiled down to radical expressivity." —Eric Kohn, Indiewire
"[The Capsule's] brilliance consists in using common tropes of femaleness in ways that tweak without ever breaking the overall capsular structure that holds these tropes together." —Zina Giannopoulou, Offscreen
(Available to download after screening date)