Private Project

Music Club

The trajectory of a life span through the narration in first person and drawings as footage.
Music club
The story of a lifetime
How is it when sometimes you are bursting from the desire to tell a story? And what if that story is your own? Or almost so
This film is about interactions within the lifespan of a person.Interactions between people, between creative endeavours and between one's own selves.
A narrator is looking from the outside in her past and how that has evolved into the now .The trajectory of that life is formed with the new appearing realities inscribing upon previous realities as time progresses like crashing waves on a shore Half real and half fiction, touches upon genres of autobiography, m ocbipic, drama and protoanimation.
The final choice of using drawings as footage and the shooting and editing from those drawings according to the script, makes the film touch upon animation, art
stop action movie and memory altered from the subconscious mind.

So in conclusion, what we have here?
The words spoken in the trailer :
A life's moments distilled in drawings
Abstracting emotions and storms of passion,
And yet we are watching a movie
Music club
A thin line between the real and its representation

A whistle in the air, we are never left alone
The magic power of the violin is everywhere
Echoes in the audio
Revolves around the story
Imprinted on the visuals

A movie about the violin?
It's for you to decide

The voice over
Her life's trajectory or a narrator's acting?
.Hard to tell

Music club

  • Athina Chatzigiannaki
    Director
  • Athina Chatzigiannaki
    Writer
  • Athina Chatzigiannaki
    Key Cast
  • Athina Chatzigiannaki
    Producer
  • Oliver Yuen
    editor
  • Ian Reininger
    music composition
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Short, Student
  • Genres:
    biopic, mocbiopic, drama, protoanimation
  • Runtime:
    9 minutes 28 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    June 15, 2021
  • Production Budget:
    200 AUD
  • Country of Origin:
    Australia
  • Country of Filming:
    Australia
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital 35mm
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    Yes - The University of Sydney
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
Director Biography - Athina Chatzigiannaki


Athina Chatzigiannaki is a filmmaker with a background in video making related to her art and theater practice.

In 2003, she was selected to participate in the Medi@erra festival with a video which was the backdrop for the theater performance "Moving Word" which she created in 2001, sponsored by the Municipality of the Aegean Sea as remembrance to the poet Odesseas Elitis for the hundred years from his death.

She has been working since in several art projects in different disciplines.

In 2017, she was part of a group of artists who were funded by Documenta 14. This collaboration resulted in the creation of ACA (Artist Cooperative Athens). The manifesto and art projects such as the interactive theatre performance “Embloki” directed by her were presented in the public program events in Athens.

She made a featurette (49.02min.) in 2019, "Selfie World", which allowed her to study filmmaking in the University of Sydney, giving her the chance to get to meet the culture and the issues around it in the country where she was born but taken away from when she was five

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Artist statement

Athina Chatzigiannaki was led to filmmaking after a long career in visual arts and performance which now serves as a background and a source to draw from in her new endeavours. She believes that film expresses best now her need for immediacy in a rapidly changing environment but also the art element in contacting an audience while searching for the essential and its momentum