Filming Under Pressure

A doc made during the nightmarish filming of The Suspended Step of the Stork at Florina.

Theo Angelopoulos: A Lifework in Film

Theo Angelopoulos: A Lifework in Film

Balkan Landscapes: The Gaze of Theo Angelopoulos

Theo Angelopoulos recalls the defining moment in 1964 that led to him to live his entire life in Greece, and explores the concept of borders in his work - as the limits of existence, of life and death, of language and communication. “Narrowing down the borders narrows the communication, stretches the differences, magnifies oppositions, magnifies reasons for war, magnifies the refugees, magnifies the internal exile... In reality a civil war leaves behind wounds which cannot easily be healed and they revive, like ghosts, or like recurrent nigh...