Towards A New Transnationality

Towards A New Transnationality

Traditional Transnational Cinema

L’Auberge espagnol, with an ensemble cast and a marketable love story represents a transnationality based in tradition.

Likewise, A Touch of Spice brings an international story to the screen with similar sensibilities.

Transnationality Both of these films seek to embrace

“transnationality” to reach a larger audience – they play to a multinational audience and derive transnationality from both international cast and production company.

Greek Transionality

Greek cinema has always been transnational in less typical ways, the Manaki brothers created the Greek national cinema from

New Greek TransnationalityWasted Youth (Argyris Papadimitropoulos, 2011)

Attenberg (Athina Rachel Tsangari, 2010)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90pgq5vlXto#t=52m07s

Wasted Youth

Story of disaffected youth, skateboarding, partying and listening to music compared with the unfulfilling life of an aging police officer.

Attenberg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2582qyfXOSs

A film that focuses on the growth of the main character among the isolation of an industrial town in the Balkans while her father dies of cancer.

Youth Young people in these films are approaching

adulthood in a globalized world

The films being made about them reflect this new world.

Music Both films feature prominent soundtracks of

non-Greek music.

Independent Cinema By relying on festival-based word of mouth

and small budgets

Wasted Youth premiered at the Rotterdam International Film Festival.

Attenberg also was distributed widely, premiering at the Venice Film Festival.

Together these films present a new concept of transnationality that is not so entrenched in traditional means of film marketing, distribution.

Films such as these are trasnational – just in a different way.

They engage in a form of international cinema but on their own terms.