Haos Film Information

Beyond filmmaking, Tsangari and HAOS have also explored the possibilities of large-scale projection and video installation, as a medium to create unique live sensory experiences. In 2004 Tsangari was invited to direct and produce the video portions of the Opening and Closing Ceremonies of the Athens 2004 Olympic Games, under the artistic direction of Dimitris Papaioannou. With animator/editor Matt Johnson and a tiny but dedicated team of artists, Tsangari produced several huge visual sequences that used cutting-edge technologies (including dozens of HD projectors, waterscreen laser projections, and conformal LED videowalls) to anchor critical moments of the Ceremony's extraordinary spectacle. HAOS collaborated again with Papaioannou for his dance-theater performance "2" (2007), producing a series of large-scale HD projections for the live show, which was hailed as a Greek performing-arts landmark. HAOS also produced the official DVD of the show, directed for the screen by Tsangari, including a making-of documentary and the full DVD design and production package. In 2008 HAOS went to the Capital Museum in Beijing, as part of the 2008 "Cultural Year of Greece in China" program. There, HAOS produced "Ceremony," a 14-screen video installation celebrating the making of the Athens 2004 Olympics opening ceremony, from concept to execution - working from hundreds of hours of intimate documentary backstage footage directed and shot over two years by Tsangari as a member of the 2004 creative team. In 2009 Tsangari was invited to be the artistic director of the opening ceremony for the remarkable new Acropolis Museum in Athens, designed by star Swiss architect Bernard Tschumi. HAOS produced a show called "Reflections" which brought a variety of Parthenon treasures to life as gigantic animated projections on the exterior of the museum and its surrounding buildings - creating a poignant visual dialogue between the Museum and its neighborhood: an interactive urban membrane. Another HAOS project both technologically innovative and genre-bending was Tsangari's film-slash-installation "The Capsule" (2012), commissioned by art collector Dakis Joannou and the DESTE Foundation. At Barneys New York on Madison Avenue, in July of 2012, "The Capsule" was shown as a multi-image installation, in which two different versions of the film were superimposed in parallel on the same screen through the use of 3D polarizing filters. While, as a conventional single-screen film, "The Capsule" was screened at dOCUMENTA(13) in Kassel, Germany, as well as film festivals in Locarno, Toronto, London BFI, and Sundance. In 2013, Tsangari was invited to join the "Future Reloaded" project, honoring the 70th anniversary of the Venice Film Festival. She directed and HAOS produced a short science fiction film, "24 Frames Per Century," which screened at the festival and appeared on a compilation disc given to all attendees. She has also directed promotional films for such institutions as the Benaki Museum in Athens (featuring narration by actor Willem Dafoe) and the renowned Costa Navarino resort in Messinia, in July 2014, with cinematography by Phedon Papamichael ("Nebraska"). In 2014 HAOS acted as a line producer in the commercial of the HSS (Hospital for Special Surgery), which was shot in Greece and was produced by the US based Double Wide Media. Looking into the future, HAOS is developing Tsangari's upcoming projects, including "Duncharon," an ambitious science-fiction comedy about dysfunctional astronauts marooned on the moon of Pluto, written with longtime creative partner Matt Johnson (winner of the ARTE France Cinéma Award in Rotterdam's CineMart), and "White Knuckles," an action-noir-comedy, also co-written with Johnson.