FRIDAY  28/03/2025
01:55 (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: "Traditional Luthiery: Bouzouki and Other String Instruments" [With English subtitles]
Episode 8

Bouzouki, lutes, tambouras, baglamas and guitars of all kinds... How are they made? What type of wood is used and how is this wood processed to produce the optimal sound? A difficult endeavor for skillful persons...

In the new episode of Meet the Craftsmen, Ira visits the workshop by Giannis Tsoulogiannis in Sparta, inspired luthier and historian of luthiery. Together with Ira, the viewer will discover how the different parts of the bouzouki or lute are made, he will wonder about the bonds that unite a modern luthier with a colleague who lived a century ago, and finally, she would learn exactly how sound comes out of an instrument of the bouzouki family.



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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