The Capsule

The follow-up to her highly praised film 'Attenberg', The CAPSULE is a hauntingly beautiful Goth-inspired mystery. Filmed on the island of Hydra, Greece, the short is an haute couture-clad coming-of-age fantasy about a matriarchic dominatrix and her female disciples that tells the story of a flock of porcelain-skinned young girls trapped within an 18th century Cycladic mansion and the rituals they perform as a rite of passage to becoming women. Flirting with elements of melodrama, horror and even fetishism, the film explores the essence of female nature, a subject matter that appears to appeal to Tsangari. Ingeniously experimenting with genre film ideas, Tsangari offers an insight into female nature using elegant yet shocking visuals that are rooted in allegorical absurdity. This film remind me of Un chien andalou.