The first in a series of events marking the publication of Athens NOW Then (co-edited by Sukhdev Sandhu and Stanley Schtinter), Close-Up is thrilled to present To the Wolf by Christina Koutsospyrou and Aran Hughes.

To the Wolf
Aran Hughes, Christina Koutsospyrou, 2013, 74 min

With an introduction by Stanley Schtinter

To the Wolf is set over four days of unrelenting wind and rain in a remote village high up in the Nafpaktia Mountains in the west of Greece, the film follows the lives of two shepherd families struggling to live. Combining documentary and fiction and with an all-local cast, the film is both a realistic portrait and also an unsettling allegory of a place and time in Greece.

Athens NOW Then is published by Text und Töne, the publishing arm of the New York University-based Colloquium for Unpopular Culture. The book explores the 'Athens NOW' film programme that Stanley Schtinter curated in 2015, which includes "never-before-published translations of Katerina Gogou's poems by the late Jack Hirschman; Eurofuck (don't ask); conversations including Toby Lee, Rebekah Rutkoff, Marina Gioti, Blaise Kirschner, Andrea Luka Zimmerman, Gareth Evans. Also: an extensive postscript by Schtinter that revisits the gleeful defiance of Athens then, its vigour and anarchism, its refusal to become someone else's story." To pre-order the book: https://www.texteundtone.com