Greek Film But Not Angelopoluos

It is hard to talk about the Greek film without bringing up Theo Angelopoluos. But here is a wonderful Greek director , and a European film director (trained doctors as well) that makes a European film, Stathis Athanasiou. Stathis directed an interesting feature  ¨DOS” that  won  2 awards the Best International Feature Film Award and Audience Award for Best International Feature Film at the New York International Independent Film Festival 2012. His film, an entry on Gijon Film Festival 2012 in Spain  elocvently, with interesting cuts and edits talks about love on the intriguing way.  

According  to Stathis Athanasiou ¨DOS”  is a love story in reverse: the film happens in two cities, on two languages, in two realities.  One story is a drama set in Barcelona, one in Athens. And with seductive visuals, cuts and edits the film presents two very separate, but parallel relationships: Spanish on Spanish Héctor (David Fernandez Fabu) and Nerea (Inés Castano) and the Greek on Greek, Hippolytus (Stavros Yagoulis) and Phaedra (Marina Kalogirou). The aim of the ¨DOS”   is to explore the complexity of relationships. What is it like at the beginning and at the end and: „the dichotomy of separation and loneliness mixed with a yearning for freedom and the inevitable mistakes we make along the way in our search for love“.

Alpha Project

 At the moment  one of the pet film projects by Stathis Athanasiou is called  the  Alpha Project, and it is an indipendent feature film project inspired by the myth of Antigone, it speaks about the invisible Creon that has invaded lives today, in the form of a global financial indicators. It is a film project in the process of making about the ever increasing violence of the recent riots and economical crises in Greece, but expands on worldwide crises as well. This film project is using an old story, “not to reiterate the past, but to explain the present and take a glimpse of the future.” It is an independent funding project, via Internet donations, directly addressing the audience.The project includes collaborating with art students and young artists in all stages of production, moving away from the usual state distribution and creates art & cultural spaces and alternative venues, creating an entire thematic section, which actually begins with cinema and expands to other art forms such as installation, photography, video art, fine art and film of course etc. In order to fund this venture  Alpha Films turn to the audience themselves, as a collective project in all stages, and project that aims to ignite a dialogue and an active collaboration between artists and audience alike. It is a reach out to a global audience due to its core theme, either because of the way of work, or for both. The Ancient Theatre was the place that was originally built in order to host adaptations of the myths. Alpha Project takes the movie, which is an in the process of making, out the Mediterranean and presents the movie there, with a live orchestra, to begin with a music concert from which the movie "appears" and this way bring the myth to its original representation place. The video with its live orchestra travels to Art & Cultural Spaces and Alternative Venues in order to do not limit the audience experience to just the movie, but it is suppose to be the center, the nucleus of a thematic world that will stem to many other forms of art such as photography, fine art, video art, viral, sculpture and many other art forms, to give the visitor a more global approach as to what it means to read them myth of Antigone today and provide food for thought.

Antigone is not only telling a story of a heroine who stepped out of the established order to do what was just, the project is a reason to initiate an artistic conversation and create a literal dialogue with interested parties, to provide motivation and self-examination by creating an artistic stimulus. The stimulus creates the diversification of the film into as many forms of art and dialogue to communicate in a time of change and crisis. The project tent not only to be of local -Greek- importance, but of international significance in a term or 're-read' the myth of Antigone today, in a period of world economic and social turmoil all over the world.

At the moment this project is open to young artists and students of photography, graphic design, fine art, cinema. It is the opportunity to work with Alpha Project in creating the publicity material of the movie, like the production stills, the poster, the logo, daily behind the scenes videos, as well as a feature documentary that will document the process of making this diverse project. But since this project is an excuse, an igniting factor to fire up an artist and literal conversation, the project collaborates with local artists in each city, in order to create the parallel exhibitions that will encircle the movie with its live orchestra. So all artists interested in the Alpha Project, from everywhere in the world  can reach out to join info@alpha-movie.com, or Facebook page alpha-movie.com/facebook, our twitter alpha-movie.com/twitter, or website alpha-movie.com  The project is financed via Internet donations on www.alpha-movie.com

And if there is anyone interested to donate please do so by the 18th of March 2013.