The Slow Business of Going

The Slow Business of Going

Petra Going is a migrant cyborg, an agent of the Global Nomad Project: an international “Experience Data Agency” which sends hundreds of “receivers” like her to wander the globe and record a succession of random encounters. Periodically, they return to agency headquarters, where they deposit their accumulated memories into an archive. This archive is available to users, who then vicariously and virtually inhabit the ready-made landscapes of touristic consciousness. The motto of the GNP: “Nostalgia for Rent.” Filmed over five years in constant motion, developed in collaboration with its actors through dramatic improvisations and autobiography, The Slow Business of Going spans both geography and genre: from slapstick to surrealism, from film noir to science fiction, from tragedy to travelog, from multimedia to melodrama. A chronicle of collisions between male and female, the corporate and the corporeal, the personal and the global, The Slow Business of Going is a tribute to a century of cinema and to the new millennium of technomadic visions.
Screening Schedule

No physical screenings scheduled.

Direction: Athina Rachel Tsangari
Script: Athina Rachel Tsangari, Daniel Aukin, Jim Davis, Matt Johnson, Mike Martin, Lizzie Martínez, Steve Moore, Tasca Shadix, Kenny Strickland
Cinematography: Deborah Eve Lewis
Editing: Matt Johnson, Leah Bowers
Music: Mark Orton, Tim Hat Trio
Actors: Lizzie Martinez, Daniel Aukin, Mike Martin, Steve Moore, Maria Tsantsanoglou, Gary Price, Kenny Strickland, Sandra Carter, Suzanne Pinette, Lauren Pithey-Perie
Production: Haos Film
Producers: Athina Rachel Tsangari, Matthew Johnson
Co-production: Cinemanomad
Costumes: Melanie Armstrong
Sets: Tom Dornbush
Format: DCP
Color: Color
Production Country: USA, Greece
Production Year: 2001
Duration: 101΄
Contact: Haos Film, info@haosfilm.com
Awards/Distinctions: Best of 2001 – The “Village Voice” Critics’ Poll NY 2002 Best Film Award – New York Underground Film Festival 2002 Best Film Award – Lausanne Film Festival 2002 Best Direction – Anchorage IFF 2001 “Best of the Fest” Audience Award – Edinburgh IFF 2001 Special Mention “New Look” – Rotterdam IFF 2001

Athina Rachel Tsangari

Athina Rachel Tsangari is an award-winning filmmaker born in Athens, Greece, considered to be a key pioneer behind the Greek New Wave. Tsangari’s sophomore feature film Attenberg (2010) premiered in competition at the Venice Film Festival. In 2015, Chevalier won Best Film at the BFI-London Film Festival. Both films were the Greek submissions for Best International Film at the Oscars. Early in her career Tsangari co-founded Haos Film, a filmmaker-run company and post-production studio based in Athens, Greece. In 2004, Tsangari was the projections designer and video director-producer for the Athens Olympic Games Opening Ceremonies, which won an Emmy Award for Best Live Broadcast. Recently, Tsangari was a Director and Executive Producer on the BBC2/HBO Max series Trigonometry. She has been a jury member in Cannes, Berlin, Locarno, Sundance and Toronto film festivals, and jury president in Venice (Orizzonti), Götteborg, and BFI London.

Filmography

2010 The Slow Business of Going
2010 Attenberg
2012 The Capsule (short)
2015 Chevalier
2020 Trigonometry (TV)