Movies: Athina Rachel Tsangari

The closing of a student film program serves as a paradigm for interrogating the corporate ideology that guides the largest public university in the USA: the University of Texas at Austin....

A promotional video directed by Athina Rachel Tsangari and narrated by Willem Dafoe about the history and the importance of the Museum Benaki....

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 car...

Three generations of women in one household do what they can to prepare for the impending loss of one of their number....

A trailer for Athina Rachel Tsangari’s theater staging of Frank Wedekind’s Lulu at the Salzburg Festival 2017. Above the stage: balloons on which eyeballs are projected. On the stage: human creatures wrapped in tulle, rolling, romping. A “monster tra...

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 ...

Follows the repercussions of the Israeli Security Wall and Settlement expansion in the engulfed/annexed Palestinian farming communities of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, examining the grassroots resistance movement that sprang up against it. An in...

Athina Rachel Tsangari has become one of the foremost figures of the so-called “Greek Weird Wave”—a movement characterized by its fascination with human behavior, bitingly absurdist humor, and arresting visual style—both as a director and as a produc...

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....

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....

A surreal account of Lizzie as she struggles to make life fit....

Athens, April of 1967. During the first days of the military dictatorship, Loukas is suffocating in his family's apartment, which he is not allowed to leave. He then invents a new game that connects him to the outside world: answering the telephone....