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
Screening to be followed by a Q&A with Athina Rachel Tsangari moderated by Julie Delpy
William Gibson meets Samuel Beckett in Tsangari’s feature directorial debut, an exhilarating, shape-shifting work set mostly in the indeterminate spaces of hotel rooms and aboard a barge in Texas, as Global Nomad Project representative Petra Going (Lizzie Curry Martinez) travels the world, generating and transmitting memories back to the Experience Data Agency. Audaciously stylized and charming in its singular brand of lo-fi sci-fi, The Slow Business of Going radically changes forms (and, frequently, formats) with each strange situation Petra finds herself in. The result is a fast and funny ode to life without a home base and a stimulating exploration of human consciousness between the real and the virtual. (Film at Lincoln Center)
TRT: 101 min
In person: Athina Rachel Tsangari and Julie Delpy
"An offbeat, whimsically abstract indie." —Deborah Young, Variety
"Undefinable, utterly fragmented, yet so close to depicting how it feels like careening headfirst into the new millennium." —ET, Eternalitytan.com
"An ambitious project... Tsangari’s first feature film belongs to an era when it could ironically be said that ‘the answer to all questions was post-modernism’."— Anna Poupou, FILMICON: Journal of Greek Film Studies
"[A] singular feature debut... as anarchic in its blend of genres as it is exacting in its philosophical commentary, proving Tsangari was adept at toying with form and narrative from the get-go." —Nicolas Pedrero-Setzer, Le Cinea Club
"Thanks to this film, I realised that cinema can be made in another, more intimate way, more self-referential – not because of its documentary or autobiographical nature, but rather because it speaks of its own way of making and organising its game." —Domitila Bedel, Senses of Cinema
(Available to download after screening date)