A legendary director confesses the border that trapped him forever — and made his art.
Theo Angelopoulos recalls the defining moment in 1964 that led to him to live his entire life in Greece, and explores the concept of borders in his work - as the limits of existence, of life and death, of language and communication. “Narrowing down the borders narrows the communication, stretches the differences, magnifies oppositions, magnifies reasons for war, magnifies the refugees, magnifies the internal exile... In reality a civil war leaves behind wounds which cannot easily be healed and they revive, like ghosts, or like recurrent nightmares, during the long nights which have dogged Greek society for years.”
Direction
Jane Gabriel lets silence speak; no hagiography, just presence.
Cinematography
Giorgos Arvanitis's images haunt even in documentary fragments.
Writing
Angelopoulos's own words — poetry disguised as interview.
Director
Jane Gabriel
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Angelopoulos's fixation on borders predicted Europe's 2015 refugee crisis and ongoing debates; this 1993 interview now reads as prophecy.
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