Plants are immersed in a world of eternal silence. Caterpillars fall from the clouds into salt and what attracts butterflies, those that fly in the stomach?

Plants are immersed in a world of eternal silence. Caterpillars fall from the clouds into salt and what attracts butterflies, those that fly in the stomach?

Anthology of a Butterfly

Ανθολόγιο μιας Πεταλούδας

Anthology of a Butterfly is a 2020 award winning short film written, produced and directed by Kostis Charamountanis.

Cinematography Kostis Charamountanis, Aphrodite Kapokaki Post Production Kostis Charamountanis Collage Kostis Charamountanis, Aphrodite Kapokaki Cast Chryssi Vidalaki, Kostis Charamountanis, Ioli, Konstantinos Georgopoulos, Aphrodite Kapokaki Special Thanks to Eriphyle Kitzoglou, Mario Banushi, Theodosis Dimitriadis, Christina Charamountani, Isidora Pouli, Nikos Pastras

Best Sound Design Award 43th National Short Film Festival of Drama

The film premiered on Tuesday, 22 September 2020, at the 43th National Short Film Festival of Drama.

Kostis Charamountanis completes film by film a universe so utterly unique, so digestively pop, so painfully romantic, so decontextualized queer, so impeccably crafted that all it requires of you - especially here, in his new film - is to open your eyes and ears so as not to miss a fraction of a second of a symphony made of words, images, crafts and filmed ephemera of a sublime everyday life, echoing from Bach to Françoise Ardi, would be adored by Lena Platonos and used as a bedtime story by any child who is best friends with plants and knows all about caterpillars that become butterflies and the other, butterflies that fly inside the stomach. Like a proclamation that assaults the senses by stopping all resistance, Anthology of a Butterfly is uselessly labeled as "experimental" since, before anything else, it's an endlessly artistically inspired (thankfully) unclassifiable moment of cinema that knows storytelling, pacing, editing and the way to be unlike anything you've ever seen, incorporating obsessions, sounds, ideas and constructs into its constantly refreshingly open look at the world, love, childhood, fantasy, trauma, identity, love.

Manolis Kranakis

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