Tributes

BIO-GRAPHIA, 92', 35mm, Ultra Panavision

Greece 1975

Direction: Thanassis Rentzis

Screnplay: Thanassis Rentzis & Yorgis Yatromanolakis

(Based on the same name Chumy Chumez's collage-book)

Director of photography: Christos Mangos

Editing: Thanassis Rentzis

Sound: Dimitris Lazaridis

Music: Stamatis Spanoudakis

Color and special effects: Angelos Chatziandreou

Cameraman: Angelos Chatziandreou

Narrator: Yiorgos Kyritsis

Production: FILMOGRAM - Thanassis Rentzis & Christos Mangos

Courtesy: Thanassis Rentzis

Genre: Feature experimental

 

With a title that expresses the connection/disagreement of bios=life and graphi=writing, this film of Rentzis has as a subject "the passage from Homo Universalis to Homo Industrialis" (Stella Theodorakis, "L'Anatreptikos dans Le Cinema Grec", in "Le Cinéma Grec", 1995, published by Centre George Pompidou).

Based on a visual material provided by the collage book of the Basque Chumy Chúmez, the film forms, out of cultural deposits, a new oneiric discourse, through the audacious and unprecenteded in Greek cinema, application of a collage-montage technique.

Viewing the body as "the sublime point of reference, a matrix and a refusal of all signs" Rentzis, dissects the body of film, makes a parody of historical certainties and moves between animation and expanded cinema in order to reflect on the broader social, political question of unity and ruptur.

 

Awards & Mentions:

3^rd Award Best Movie, 16^th Thessaloniki Film Festival 1975

And also Audience Award. 

 

 

ELECTRIC  ANGEL, 90΄, Color,  Frame ratio, 1.66:1

Greece 1981

Direction: Thanassis Rentzis

Screenplay: Thanassis Rentzis

Director of Photography: Polydefkis Kyrlidis

Editing: Thanassis Rentzis

Music: Dimitris Lekkas & Dimitris Papadimitriou

(Sound Track: CBS [Vinyl  LP], No. 70217).

Acting: Faedon Georgitsis, Marili Tsopanelli, Sofia Roumbou, Ismini Bolbasi, Rosemary Donnelly, Savvina Giannatou, Konstantinos Hatzistamatis, Giorgos Hristofylakis, Agi Iliopoulou-Kornelatou, Giannis Kalatzopoulos, Thanassis Kastaniotis, Georgia Kornelatou, Georgia Zoi, Yorgos Kotanidis, Maria Lianantonaki, Vasiliki Manda, Evangelos Mandas, Jason Melissinos, Jay Riley

Production: Thanassis Rentzis & Greek Film Center

 

Awards & Mentions:

Mention for Experimental Movie, 22 Thessaloniki Film Festival 1981

And also Music Award. 

 

An experimental film, in which a variety of audiovisual techniques are used to create the sense of polymorphic eroticism as developed by Euro-Mediterranean region in the 20^th century.

Combining the methods of animation and live action, this intricate work embodies the deep idea of the notorious ars combinatoria.

The structure is loose, with neither a central axis nor a point where everything converges, contributing greatly to the open-ended character of the film, where rhythm is the guiding key.

 

Thanassis Rentzis' book