Athina Chatzigiannaki is a filmmaker with a background in video making related to her art and theater practice.
In 2003, she was selected to participate in the Medi@erra festival with a video which was the backdrop for the theater performance "Moving Word" which she created in 2001, sponsored by the Municipality of the Aegean Sea as remembrance to the poet Odesseas Elitis for the hundred years from his death. She has been working since in several art projects in different disciplines. In 2017, she was part of a group of artists who were funded by Documenta 14. This collaboration resulted in the creation of ACA (Artist Cooperative Athens). The manifesto and art projects such as the interactive theatre performance “Embloki” directed by her were presented in the public program events in Athens. She made a featurette (49.02min.) in 2019, "Selfie World", which allowed her to study filmmaking in the University of Sydney, giving her the chance to get to meet the culture and the issues around it in the country where she was born but taken away from when she was five. Athina Chatzigiannaki was led to filmmaking after a long career in visual arts and performance which now serves as a background and a source to draw from in her new endeavours. She believes that film expresses best now her need for immediacy in a rapidly changing environment but also the art element in contacting an audience while searching for the essential and its momentum.
Stare Me In The Eye
Two youngsters have a strong impact on each other, the one through questioning her very core beliefs and the other challenging his timely engagement. Is this a story? Yes, but it is certainly away from cliché identifications and closer to the one human soul of today.
Athina Chatzigiannaki Director Music Club, Selfie World
Athina Chatzigiannaki Writer Selfie world, Music club
Athina Chatzigiannaki Producer Selfie world, Music club
Ian Reininger Key Cast "Tim"
Yu Liu associate producer
Genres: screen film
Runtime: 9 minutes 21 seconds
Completion Date: June 14, 2022
Production Budget: 200 AUD
Country of Origin: Australia
Country of Filming: Australia
Language: English
Shooting Format: Camera 35mm
Aspect Ratio: 16.9
Film Color: Color
Project Type: Experimental, Short, Student
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