Future Frames: Ten New Filmmakers To Follow 2015 / Washingtonia / Greece 2014
The mysterious term Washingtonia masks multiple meanings: it’s the name of the only palm tree not devoured by the red beetle, an alternate name for Athens, and the oppressive sadness brought on by the summer heat. But it is also an unusual film that, in the rhythm of a giraffe’s beating heart, combines beauty, sorrow, nostalgia, a longing for love, and an undetermined feeling of pain.
“Washingtonia starts when the giraffe’s heart can no longer be heard. Washingtonia is an alternative name for Athens, a place where people, like animals, fall into summertime sadness because of the heat. Washingtonia is the only palm tree whose heart is not devoured by the red beetle. Because its heart is small and dry, and no one likes small and dry hearts.” The film is just as poetic as this synopsis: beauty, sorrow, nostalgia, the desire for love, and a vague feeling of pain. In the rhythm of a giraffe’s beating heart, the characters’ lives are intertwined with one another and with the suffering of dying palm trees.
Anna Kořínek
24 min / Color, DCP
Director Konstantina Kotzamani
/ Screenplay Konstantina Kotzamani
/ Dir. of Photography Giorgos Karvelas, Giannis Kanakis
/ Music drog_a_tek, panoou
/ Editor Leonidas Papafotiou
/ Art Director Nefeli Livieratou
/ Producer Artemis Pattakou
/ Production Squared Square
/ Cast Mamadou Diallo, Eytuchia Stefanidou, Katerina Iliadi, Nikos Christofidis
/ Contact Squared Square
www: www.washingtoniafilm.com
Konstantina Kotzamani (b. 1983, Komotini, Greece) studied pharmacy and cinema at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, and participated in the Talent Campus in Berlin and Sarajevo. Her short films Pigs (2011), Zodiac (2012), Arundel (2012) and Washingtonia have been shown at numerous international film festivals. Czech audiences had the chance to see Morning Prayers (2013) at the 10th annual Prague Short Film Festival.
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Phone: +30 697 904 8116
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