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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:
"Traditional Pottery in Thrapsano, Crete" [With English Subtitles]
Episode 7
Heirs of the Minoan potters, the craftsmen of Thrapsano continue to create ceramics in the numerous workshops operating within and around their village, literally made from the earth beneath their feet. What exactly makes the Thrapsano pottery so unique?
Hera Katsouda visits Thrapsano, a village south of Heraklion, which lives and breathes to the rhythm of the dozens of wheels turning in the pottery workshops all day long, as well as the kilns that glow through the night.
Along with Hera, the viewer will follow the creation of a ceramic piece, from the extraction and mixing of the clay that will give it its unique qualities, to the shaping, lifting, finishing, and drying of each one, before being carefully stacked in the massive kiln that will need to reach over 1000 degrees to fire it properly.
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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