Eva Stefani

Eva Stefani was born in the USA and lives in Athens, Greece. She has directed more than thirty films, spanning from ethnographic to experimental cinema.

Her work has been screened at numerous international film festivals, receiving prestigious awards (Oberhausen, Cinéma du Réel, FIPRESCI, etc.). Festivals such as the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen and L’Europe autour de l’Europe, and universities such as New York University and Columbia, have organized retrospectives of her work. Since 2000, she has participated in international visual arts exhibitions, with the most notable examples being documenta14 and the Venice Biennale. Her most recent visual artwork, “The Luminous Cave,” is an installation commissioned by the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, as part of the exhibition cycle “What If Women Ruled the World?”.

In addition to her artistic activity, Eva Stefani is a professor of film studies at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (Faculty of Media and Communication Studies). She studied at the Political Science Department of Athens Law School and then completed postgraduate studies in Film Theory and Anthropology at NYU, as well as film studies with a focus on documentary at the Ateliers Varan in France and the National Film & Television School in the UK. Her doctoral thesis examines representations of Greece in ethnographic cinema (Panteion University, 1997).

Her latest film, “Bull’s Heart,” is a peculiar portrait of director and choreographer Dimitris Papaioannou.