13th(2011)
Marie-Margaux TSAKIRI-SCANATOVITS
This film is about my Italian mother and her confessions about her life in Greece.
The director¡¯s Italian mother moved to the 70¡®s Athens following her Greek husband. In the chaotic post-dictatorship Athens, she struggled to deal with patriarchal father and her mother-in-law who was not pleased with the foreign daughter-in-law. The deeper she experiences cultural difference the bigger her nostalgia for hometown grows. The director, in the end, uses the home video footage from her mother¡®s young days, which contrasts with the plain pencil drawing, and soothes her mother¡®s long lasting desire to move back to her hometown. (CHO Hye-young)
Synopsis
This film is about my Italian mother and her confessions about her life in Greece.
Program Note
The director¡¯s Italian mother moved to the 70¡®s Athens following her Greek husband. In the chaotic post-dictatorship Athens, she struggled to deal with patriarchal father and her mother-in-law who was not pleased with the foreign daughter-in-law. The deeper she experiences cultural difference the bigger her nostalgia for hometown grows. The director, in the end, uses the home video footage from her mother¡®s young days, which contrasts with the plain pencil drawing, and soothes her mother¡®s long lasting desire to move back to her hometown. (CHO Hye-young)
Marie-Margaux TSAKIRI-SCANATOVITSMarie-Margaux TSAKIRI-SCANATOVITS
TSAKIRI-SCANATOVITS graduated from Kingston University London with a First Class BA Honors degree in Illustration and Animation for her graduation film He Seemed Lovely. She then moved straight to the Royal College of Art for an MA in Animation