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Eva Stefani is director of documentaries and short experimental films. She was born in the USA and lives in Athens. She has directed over 30 films, ranging from ethnographic to experimental cinema. Her work has been screened at many festivals around the world, winning international awards (Oberhausen, Cinéma du Réel, FIPRESCI, etc.), while film festivals such as the Oberhausen International Short Film Festival and L’Europe autour de l’Europe and universities such as New York University and Columbia in New York have organized tributes to her work. Since 2000, she has participated in international art exhibitions, most notably documenta14 and the Venice Biennale. Her latest art work, entitled “The Luminous Cave”, is an installation commissioned by EMST, as part of the exhibition series “What if Women Ruled the World?”. In addition to her artistic activity, Eva Stefani is a professor of cinema in the Department of Communication and Mass Media at the National University of Athens. She studied at the Department of Political Science of the Law School of the National University of Athens and then did postgraduate studies in film theory and anthropology at New York University (NYU) and in cinema with an emphasis on documentary at the Ateliers Varan school in Paris and at the National Film & Television School in Great Britain. Her doctoral thesis concerns the representations of Greece in ethnographic cinema (Panteion, 1997). Her latest film, entitled “The Heart of the Bull”, is a peculiar portrait of the director and choreographer Dimitris Papaioannou.