Attenberg
Athina Rachel Tsangari
Marina, 23, is growing up with her architect father in a prototype factory town by the sea. Finding the human species strange and repellent, she keeps her distance. Instead she chooses to observe it through the songs of Suicide, the mammal documentaries of Sir David Attenborough, and the sexual-¬education lessons she receives from her only friend, Bella. A stranger comes to town and challenges her to a football duel, on her own table. Her father meanwhile ritualistically prepares for his exit from the 20th century, which he considers to be "overrated." Caught between the two men and her collaborator, Bella, Marina investigates the wondrous mystery of the human fauna.
With : Ariane Labed, Vangelis Mourikis, Evangelia Randou, Yorgos Lanthimos
Screenplay : Athina Rachel Tsangari
Image : Thimios Bakatakis
Sound : Leandros Ntounis
Editing : Sandrine Cheyrol, Matt Johnson
Direction artistique : Dafni Kalogianni
Screenplay : Athina Rachel Tsangari
Image : Thimios Bakatakis
Sound : Leandros Ntounis
Editing : Sandrine Cheyrol, Matt Johnson
Direction artistique : Dafni Kalogianni
Production : Haos Film // Maria Hatzakou, Yorgos Lanthimos, Iraklis Mavroidis, Athina Rachel Tsangari, Angelos Venetis // Agiou Markou 10 // 105 60 Athènes Grèce // Tel : +30 210 32 22 466 / Email : info@haosfilm.com
Distribution: Bodega Film// 9, passage de la boule blanche//
75012 Paris, France//
Tel. : 01 42 24 06 49//
International sales: The Match Factory // Balthasarstr. 79 – 81 // 50670 Cologne, Allemagne // Tel : +49 221 539 709-0 / Email : info@matchfactory.de
Distribution: Bodega Film// 9, passage de la boule blanche//
75012 Paris, France//
Tel. : 01 42 24 06 49//
International sales: The Match Factory // Balthasarstr. 79 – 81 // 50670 Cologne, Allemagne // Tel : +49 221 539 709-0 / Email : info@matchfactory.de
Athina Rachel Tsangari lives and works between her native Greece and the USA. She studied Literature, Performance and film directing. She directed her first feature The Slow Business of Going, voted one of the best undistributed films in the 2002 Village Voice Critics' Poll. She was the co-¬founder of the Austin-¬based Cinematexas International Short Film Festival. She designs large-scale projections for dance, theatre, and site-¬specific installations, and she was video director for the Athens 2004 Olympic Games Opening Ceremony. In 2005, she founded Haos Film, a creative office that develops and produces work by and with fellow filmmakers. Amongst her producer credits are Yorgos Lanthimos' first film Kinetta (2005), and his Un Certain Regard winner Dogtooth, as an associate producer (2009). Attenberg is her second feature film. I made a film about four people who happen to be in the same place for a short period of time. Three people who become four and then two. Three, of course, being the perfect number in any relation.