NSB Film School: Greek Weird Wave[Durham, NC]
**This course is in-person only. There is no virtual component. Participants must be age 21+
Full Tuition: $200 — Scholarship options are available in the drop-down enrollment menu for you to self-select. To pay in installments, choose to pay with PayPal at check out.
Instructor: Victoria Bouloubasis | Thursdays December 5 - 19 | 6:00 - 9:30 PM ET | In-Person, Durham, NC
Greek Weird Wave cinema is having a global moment with the explosive success of director Yorgos Lanthimos and his absurd, wildly brutal yet comedic English-language films. But the Greek Weird Wave encompasses much more than Lanthimos’s films. Often referred to as “a cinema of biopolitics,” the genre was born out of Greece’s economic crisis in 2009 that led to eventual bankruptcy. In this wake of a great recession, scrappy indie film budgets and valiant artistic expression (with a wry bit of cheekiness) fueled a tide of cinema teetering the lines of existentialism, surrealism, and absurdism with a harsh dose of reality.According to film critic Violetta Katsaris, “the movement’s films are weird, morbid, and even gruesome because Greece throughout this era has felt like an anomaly as if the nation had swerved onto the wrong lane and entered an entirely different and unknown region.”
In this mini-course we will meet and discuss three films that help define the evolution of the Greek Weird Wave, all directed by women filmmakers: Attenburg (2010, Athina Rachel Tsangari), Moon, 66 Questions (2020, Jacqueline Lentzou) and Animal (2024, Sofia Exarchou). We’ll ponder themes, symbolism, and the concept of “weird," as well as varied cinematic approaches and styles of the films we’ll study. There will be additional reading provided for this class. (Note: explicit sexual content, some violence).
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This class will take place in person at Night School Bar in Durham. Night School requires that students refrain from attending in-person classes when sick. For more on our class policies, see our FAQ. Instructors will also follow this policy. If your instructor is sick, class may be moved to online for a session or rescheduled to the week following the final scheduled session at the instructor’s discretion.
Sliding Scale: Night School Bar pays instructors and staff a living wage. We ask that people who make above the living wage threshold for their area strongly consider choosing 75% or higher tuition tiers in order to support our own living wage program. For Durham, NC, where we are located, the living wage threshold is $49,000 for an individual. All scholarship needs are self-assessed, and we will never request or require proof of need.
Scholarships: We are currently able to offer three full scholarships per class. Our full scholarship tier is a nonrefundable offering, limited to one per student per month. Because our scholarship funding is limited, selecting multiple full scholarships in a single month will result in disenrollment from all classes. If the scholarship tier you need is sold out please email us directly, and we will add you to a waitlist and notify you if additional scholarships become available. Please see our FAQ for more information, including installment plans and refund policy.
**This course is in-person only. There is no virtual component. Participants must be age 21+
Full Tuition: $200 — Scholarship options are available in the drop-down enrollment menu for you to self-select. To pay in installments, choose to pay with PayPal at check out.
Instructor: Victoria Bouloubasis | Thursdays December 5 - 19 | 6:00 - 9:30 PM ET | In-Person, Durham, NC
Greek Weird Wave cinema is having a global moment with the explosive success of director Yorgos Lanthimos and his absurd, wildly brutal yet comedic English-language films. But the Greek Weird Wave encompasses much more than Lanthimos’s films. Often referred to as “a cinema of biopolitics,” the genre was born out of Greece’s economic crisis in 2009 that led to eventual bankruptcy. In this wake of a great recession, scrappy indie film budgets and valiant artistic expression (with a wry bit of cheekiness) fueled a tide of cinema teetering the lines of existentialism, surrealism, and absurdism with a harsh dose of reality.According to film critic Violetta Katsaris, “the movement’s films are weird, morbid, and even gruesome because Greece throughout this era has felt like an anomaly as if the nation had swerved onto the wrong lane and entered an entirely different and unknown region.”
In this mini-course we will meet and discuss three films that help define the evolution of the Greek Weird Wave, all directed by women filmmakers: Attenburg (2010, Athina Rachel Tsangari), Moon, 66 Questions (2020, Jacqueline Lentzou) and Animal (2024, Sofia Exarchou). We’ll ponder themes, symbolism, and the concept of “weird," as well as varied cinematic approaches and styles of the films we’ll study. There will be additional reading provided for this class. (Note: explicit sexual content, some violence).
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This class will take place in person at Night School Bar in Durham. Night School requires that students refrain from attending in-person classes when sick. For more on our class policies, see our FAQ. Instructors will also follow this policy. If your instructor is sick, class may be moved to online for a session or rescheduled to the week following the final scheduled session at the instructor’s discretion.
Sliding Scale: Night School Bar pays instructors and staff a living wage. We ask that people who make above the living wage threshold for their area strongly consider choosing 75% or higher tuition tiers in order to support our own living wage program. For Durham, NC, where we are located, the living wage threshold is $49,000 for an individual. All scholarship needs are self-assessed, and we will never request or require proof of need.
Scholarships: We are currently able to offer three full scholarships per class. Our full scholarship tier is a nonrefundable offering, limited to one per student per month. Because our scholarship funding is limited, selecting multiple full scholarships in a single month will result in disenrollment from all classes. If the scholarship tier you need is sold out please email us directly, and we will add you to a waitlist and notify you if additional scholarships become available. Please see our FAQ for more information, including installment plans and refund policy.
**This course is in-person only. There is no virtual component. Participants must be age 21+
Full Tuition: $200 — Scholarship options are available in the drop-down enrollment menu for you to self-select. To pay in installments, choose to pay with PayPal at check out.
Instructor: Victoria Bouloubasis | Thursdays December 5 - 19 | 6:00 - 9:30 PM ET | In-Person, Durham, NC
Greek Weird Wave cinema is having a global moment with the explosive success of director Yorgos Lanthimos and his absurd, wildly brutal yet comedic English-language films. But the Greek Weird Wave encompasses much more than Lanthimos’s films. Often referred to as “a cinema of biopolitics,” the genre was born out of Greece’s economic crisis in 2009 that led to eventual bankruptcy. In this wake of a great recession, scrappy indie film budgets and valiant artistic expression (with a wry bit of cheekiness) fueled a tide of cinema teetering the lines of existentialism, surrealism, and absurdism with a harsh dose of reality.According to film critic Violetta Katsaris, “the movement’s films are weird, morbid, and even gruesome because Greece throughout this era has felt like an anomaly as if the nation had swerved onto the wrong lane and entered an entirely different and unknown region.”
In this mini-course we will meet and discuss three films that help define the evolution of the Greek Weird Wave, all directed by women filmmakers: Attenburg (2010, Athina Rachel Tsangari), Moon, 66 Questions (2020, Jacqueline Lentzou) and Animal (2024, Sofia Exarchou). We’ll ponder themes, symbolism, and the concept of “weird," as well as varied cinematic approaches and styles of the films we’ll study. There will be additional reading provided for this class. (Note: explicit sexual content, some violence).
—
This class will take place in person at Night School Bar in Durham. Night School requires that students refrain from attending in-person classes when sick. For more on our class policies, see our FAQ. Instructors will also follow this policy. If your instructor is sick, class may be moved to online for a session or rescheduled to the week following the final scheduled session at the instructor’s discretion.
Sliding Scale: Night School Bar pays instructors and staff a living wage. We ask that people who make above the living wage threshold for their area strongly consider choosing 75% or higher tuition tiers in order to support our own living wage program. For Durham, NC, where we are located, the living wage threshold is $49,000 for an individual. All scholarship needs are self-assessed, and we will never request or require proof of need.
Scholarships: We are currently able to offer three full scholarships per class. Our full scholarship tier is a nonrefundable offering, limited to one per student per month. Because our scholarship funding is limited, selecting multiple full scholarships in a single month will result in disenrollment from all classes. If the scholarship tier you need is sold out please email us directly, and we will add you to a waitlist and notify you if additional scholarships become available. Please see our FAQ for more information, including installment plans and refund policy.