The Capsule

GREECE – 2012 – 35 MIN – COLOUR - SHORT - IN FRENCH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES
A FILM BY ATHINA RACHEL TSANGARI

THE CAPSULE (2012) / exclusive trailer for http://Yatzer.com > http://www.Yatzer.com/The-Capsule > Seven young women. A mansion perched on a Cycladic rock. A series of lessons on discipline, desire, discovery, and disappearance. A melancholy, inescapable cycle on the brink of womanhood — infinitely. directed by: Athina Rachel Tsangari written by: Athina Rachel Tsangari & Aleksandra Waliszewska commissioned by: Dakis Joannou & The DESTE Foundation for the DesteFashionCollection 2012 cast: Ariane Labed, Clémence Poésy, Isolda Dychauk, Evangelia Randou, Aurora Marion, Deniz Gamze Ergüven, Sofia Dona fashion designers: Sandra Backlund, Bordelle, Ying Gao, Cat Potter, Isabelle Vigier, Marc Jacobs for Louis Vuitton, Athina Rachel Tsangari & Vassilia Rozana director of photography: Thimios Bakatakis art direction: Athina Rachel Tsangari hair: Daniel Babek make-up: Evi Zafiropoulou editing: Matt Johnson animation & visual effects: Zina Papadopoulou & Petros Papadopoulos (Oval Image) sound design: Leandros Ntounis artwork: Aleksandra Waliszewska filmed on location: Hydra Island, Greece produced by: Maria Hatzakou, Kyriacos Karseras & Athina Rachel Tsangari a http://HaosFilm.com production http://thecapsule.info http://facebook.com/thecapsulefilm

Seven girls, a mansion perched on a Cycladic rock, a cycle of lessons on discipline, desire and demise — infinitely.

Athina Rachel Tsangari has created both a film and a projection installation for the DesteFashion- Collection 2012, commissioned by art collector Dakis Joannou. It is a “Greek Gothic” mystery inspired by the work of the young Polish artist Aleksandra Waliszewska.

Tsangari curated an haute couture “capsule” for the DesteFashionCollection 2012, selecting works by young, avant-garde designers who boldly challenge the boundaries of fashion as wearable sculpture.

The pieces feature in both her film and projection installation, re-agitating the ongoing, essential dialogue between cinema, fashion, and the fine arts.

A distinguished international all-female cast of seven is participating, including Ariane Labed, winner of the Coppa Volpi for Best Actress at the 2010 Venice Film Festival in Tsangari’s ATTENBERG; Clémence Poésy, known for her roles in the HARRY POTTER series and Danny Boyle’s 127 HOURS; and Isolda Dychauk, the lead in Aleksander Sokurov’s FAUST.

DIRECTOR
Athina Rachel Tsangari’s second feature ATTENBERG premiered in competition at the 2010 Venice Film Festival, where it won the Coppa Volpi Award for its lead, Ariane Labed, and went on to win 13 more awards at festivals worldwide. It was Greece’s Best Foreign Language Film submission to the 2011 Academy Awards©. She is the co-founder and principle producer of Haos Film, a filmmaker- run company based in Athens. Among her credits as a producer are three films directed by Yorgos Lanthimos: KINETTA (2005), DOGTOOTH (2009), and his latest film ALPS (2011). Her upcoming sci-fi comedy “Duncharon” was awarded the ARTE France Cinéma Award for best project at the Rotterdam’s CineMart 2012.

"'...a celebration of bodies in motion. The lithe, leggy forms in question belong to a group of women housed in an 18th-century castle on the Mediterranean isle of Hydra, who engage in a series of bizarrely sexualized rituals and games (including dance routines) at the behest of their seeming queen (played by Ariane Labed).'"
- THE GRID

" Never mind its brevity (37 minutes), This One, Indeed, Is A Film."
- BLOGTO