Eva Stefani
Eva Stefani (* 1964 in Alexandria , Virginia ) is an American documentary film - director .
life and work
Stefani studied political science from 1981 to 1987 at the University of Athens and then until 1989 documentary film in the Ateliers Varan in Paris and from 1989 to 1991 film studies and ethnological film at New York University . She then completed a documentary film training course at the National Film and Television School from 1991 to 1995 . Eva Stefani has been teaching film studies at the University of Athens since 2000. She was visiting professor at the Institute for Greek and Latin Philology at the Free University of Berlin . She makes videos and Super 8 films . In 2019 she will take part in the Biennale di Venezia together with Panos Charalambous and Zafos Xagoraris .
In “ What people live on ” (1885), Leo Tolstoy's penetrating human gaze raises three questions: What is there in people, what is not granted to people, and what keeps people alive? The short story is one of Eva Stefani’s favorite texts; all of her work could be overwritten with her title. "
Filmography (selection)
- 1987: Gutters
- 1989: La Vie en Vert
- 1991: Μoiroloi
- 1993: Paschalis
- 1995: Athene
- 1995: Letters from Albatross
- 1998: Housemates
- 2001: Reveille
- 2001: Prison Leave
- 2001/04: Acropolis
- 2004: The Box
- 2007: National Anthem
- 2007: What Time Is It?
- 2008: Bathers
- 2012: The Return of EC Gonatas
- 2012: Dimitris Papaioannou
- 2014: Ill Not Ill
- 2016: Incubator
- 2017: Hirografo / Manuscript
- 2017: Virgin's Temple
Awards (selection)
- 1995: 1st prize for short film from the Greek Ministry of Culture
- 1995: Award from the Greek Film Center
- 2018: Main Prize of the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen
Web links
- Eva Stefani in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Website Eva Stefani
- Goethe-Institut Greece Interview with Eva Stefani: A "manuscript" in the age of smartphones
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Garden of Dystopian Pleasures , accessed on July 22, 2019. (English)
- ↑ Hellas Filmbox Die Badenden - by Eva Stefani , accessed on July 22, 2019
- ↑ Weltkunst Panos Charalambous, Eva Stefani, Zafos Xagoraris , accessed on July 22, 2019.
- ↑ documenta 14 , daybook Eva Stefani , accessed on July 22, 2019.
- ↑ International Short Film Festival Oberhausen The Prize Winners 2018 , accessed on July 22, 2019.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Stefani, Eva |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American documentary director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1964 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Alexandria |