THURSDAY  01/08/2024
21:00 (UTC) [K8]
Meet the Craftsmen  (Season Β )   (R)   
Documentary / Arts - Literature


Year of production: (2023)




Weekly half-hour show, produced in 2023-2024.

A series of half-hour documentaries presenting traditional arts and techniques in the 21st century, filmed in various locations across Greece.

The second season consists of 10 original half-hour documentaries filmed from the foothills of Mount Parnassus and Pentalofos, Kozani to Crete and Rhodes, Didymoteicho, and Sparta. These are places where economically sustainable traditional arts continue to be practiced, some of which have been included in the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage list.

Renowned stand-up comedian Hera Katsouda attempts to learn the secrets of crafting the lyre or the 'stivani', stone construction, copper craftsmanship, and pebble mosaics in the locations where these arts are practiced. Alongside her, the viewers experience each art's labor, difficulties, and peculiarities.

Today: «Mosaic and Icon Painting in Didymoteicho - Tradition and Continuity» [With English subtitles]
Episode 9

One could say that mosaics and icon painting go together, since from Byzantine times they are perceived as techniques of devotional representations. But we forget that the oldest mosaics found in Mesopotamia date back to the
3rd millennium B.C. From Mesopotamia, through Greece, this art was transferred to Rome where it was widely used throughout the Empire.
In this episode of “Meet the Craftsmen”, Ira visits Didymoteicho, where Georgia and Giannis chose to settle and work. They are a couple of artists who met at the Athens School of Fine Arts and since then they have been walking together, choosing to work in rural Greece.

Together with Ira, we will see how Georgia collects and cuts the stone, how she makes it into a mosaic and how she places it in her project, while Giannis works the plaster to paint with the fresco technique or he stirs the colors up on the scaffolding, to complete the form of an angel.



Direction - Concept: Grigoris Vardarinos
Screenplay - Scientific Collaborator: Philippos Mandilaras
Production Management: Ioanna Douka
Music Composition: Georgios Mouchtaris
Opening Titles - Graphics: Panagiotis Giorgakas

Host: Hera Katsouda

Available on ERTFLIX.


 
     




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