Private Project

Debunking the Myth

After a disturbing dream rooted in the myth of Medea, Marina begins therapy to understand why the ancient story has surfaced in her present life. Moving between everyday reality and fragmented dream imagery, she navigates memory, betrayal, and motherhood, searching for a way to face the past without being consumed by it.

  • Athina Chatzigiannaki
    Writer
    Insight SITE Focus, Ekehiria/Ceasefire, The Dragon Healer, The Date, Stare Me In the Eye, Selfie World
  • Athina Chatzigiannaki
    Producer
    The Date (By the book)
  • Athinais Pothou
    Key Cast
    "Marina"
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    Ανατρέποντας τον μύθο
  • Project Type:
    Short
  • Runtime:
    19 minutes 58 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    January 6, 2026
  • Production Budget:
    1,000 EUR
  • Country of Origin:
    Greece
  • Country of Filming:
    Greece
  • Language:
    Greek (Modern)
  • Shooting Format:
    Canon C200 in 4K (Canon log3)
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
Director Biography

Athina Chatzigiannaki iis an independent filmmaker working between Greece and Australia. Her films explore memory, identity, and the intersections of reality and the subconscious.

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Director Statement

This film emerged from a need to enter into dialogue with the past without being consumed by it. Through a blend of realism and dream imagery, I explore how personal history, myth, and memory surface unexpectedly in the present, often asking to be witnessed rather than resolved.
The dream sequences are not meant to illustrate reality but to create a parallel emotional landscape—one where distance, abstraction, and symbolic gesture allow difficult material to be approached safely. The use of visible artifice, such as puppetry and constructed spaces, is intentional: it resists realism in favor of a language that acknowledges trauma as something remembered, reinterpreted, and reshaped over time.
At its core, the film is about agency—about revisiting inherited narratives and finding a way to respond differently. It asks whether confronting the past can become an act of transformation rather than repetition, and whether imagination itself can be a form of care.