An Athens Summer Night Dream
an interview by Voula Palaiologou
First Plan, TIFF 1999
First Plan, TIFF 1999
Dimitri Athanitis (V. P. First Plan. Thessaloniki FF, November 1999)
You Insist on faces, camera in hand and faces, youthful faces.
The subject of the film is the erotic play among the actors who make up a theater company. The subject of the original play offers the opportunity. It is again a story of today's Athens and characters are at its center. The film follows them in the intrigue that knits the erotic play in life and on stage. Reality invades and interferes with the process of a performance.
... and the actors?
I know the actors more than I know other people, I love them, I put them in the foreground. So I found it a good reason for my new film... I like the actors. They live unconventional, out of some norms, so they can follow an intrigue ...
Is this what you seek making films?
Yes, I love freedom, I follow it in my life. The actor's free life is particularly intriguing. A person who plays so many roles, finally he is not just one person and this is a great freedom. By creating different stories you live them at the shootings, at the rehearsals, during the break...
