Project Detail

Moderation

Synopsis

Set in Egypt, Greece, Italy and the US, Anja Kirschner's piece reflects on the way psychological, historical and material realities are connected through the prism of the filmmaking progress itself.
Its main protagonists - a director and a screenwriter are in the early stages of developing a commercial feature film, but soon their own conflicting desires and the events simultaneously occurring around them, take them far beyond their initial intentions. Forced to radically reconfigure her project, the director becomes more and more drawn into conversations with the actors she has cast, which centre on the way cinema intersects with their own lives and gives expression to the realities they are confronted with.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2016 - Experimenta Strand

Details

Year: 2015
Type of film: Features
Running time: 149 mins
Director: Anja Kirschner
Producer: Theo Prodromidis
Editor: Smaro Papaevangelou, Anja Kirschner
Screenwriter: Anja Kirschner with Maya Lubinsky, Anna De Filippi
Director of Photography: Dimitris Kasimatis GSC, Mostafa El Kashef
Production Designer: Kleio Boboti
Sound: Dimitris Kanellopoulos, Max Schneider, Giuseppe Di Lascio; Sound Design: Kostas Fylaktidis, Vasilis Zlatanos, Stefanos Konstantinidis
Music: Dracula Lewis
Principal cast: Maya Lubinsky, Anna De Filippi, Michele Valley, Aida El Kashef, Giovanni Lombardo Radice

Genre

Experimental Horror Fantasy Sci-Fi

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Greece, Italy, UK, Egypt coproduction

Commissioned by Polyeco Contemporary Art Initiative (GR), co-produced by Beirut (EG) and Nomas Foundation (IT) and supported by the Elephant Trust (UK) and the Greek Film Centre (GR)

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Waterlow Park Centre
Dartmouth Park Hill
London
N19 5JF

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