Angelopoulos

Some stills from the movie "The Weeping Meadow" by Theo Angelopoulos, a Greek director whose films were the reason I started studying cinema.



And below, two stills from his film "Landscape In the Mist," which I could probably say had the most impact on my style.


These photos of the two children comforting each other on a desolate stretch of a windswept highway reminds me of the exact moment when I realized that filmmaking was the only option for me. I remember watching the credits roll at the end of the film, and feeling sick; dizzyingly, wonderfully sick....it was the sickness of trying to comprehend how such perfection could exist in any art form...how was it allowed to exist?