DAAD grant holder Athina Rachel Tsangari

Athina Rachel Tsangari (*1966) is currently the guest of the DAAD's artist-in-residence program in Berlin. The filmmaker and producer is a key figure of recent Greek cinema. Like a behavioral scientist, in her films she examines the species of human being and its strange conduct, inventing an imaginative cinema in terms of form that is full of absurd situations. In THE CAPSULE (GR 2012), six young women dressed in avant-garde fashion carry out strange rituals without emotion and suffer their supervisor's lessons. A power struggle between women in a stylized film that borrows from Brontë, Bataille and Buñuel. As a counterpart, the farcical comedy CHEVALIER (GR 2015) depicts power struggles among men. Six friends on vacation on a luxury yacht in the Aegean islands cannot let go of their egos. A game to assert who is "the best at everything" develops into a ludicrous competition. (bik) (1.2.)