SATURDAY  27/04/2024
02:00 (UTC) [K8]
Greek Acts (Season Η )   (R)   
Documentary / Culture


Year of production: (2024)




Series of hourly broadcasts produced in 2024

"GREEK ACTS" travels, records, and presents the timeless cultural expressions of people and places. The journey, the music, the myth, the dance, the world. This is the destination of the show. The protagonist is the human, accompanied by mythical ancestors, in the local cultural events. It's where human adventure is distinctively traced in its authentic expression, across time. The show travels, explores, and reveals an enthralling human geography. The mosaic of the present creative and timeless cultural evolution of our country is showcased, with a selection of people-protagonists, events, and places, thus highlighting and complementing a living anthology. With music, stories, and images... With a revealing and sensitive gaze, with in-depth research rather than surface-level exploration, "GREEK ACTS" focuses on "unique" moments of human expression.
With a screenplay structured cinematically, each story, where the show focuses its lens, unfolds fully without "intermediaries", by the protagonists themselves, creating a documentary that "composes" the present with the past, the myth with history, where everyday people are the protagonists. Myths, history, time, people, and places harmoniously compose a complete set of creative expression. The direct and authentic documentation, by the genuine "bearer" and "expresser" of each story - rather than someone "interfering" - is the primary, inviolable rule guiding the research and realization.
Behind each documentary, there is extensive preparation. And the image eventually appearing on the small screen - the result of the efforts of the show's collaborators - constitutes a wholly original production, from the first to the last frame. In this year's journey from Crete to Evros and from the Ionian to the Aegean Sea, the show presents a feast of ethnographic, anthropological, and musical expression. Authentic creations of people and places.
The human, life, and its voice firsthand, the sounds, the images, the customs, and behaviors, the journey of rhythms, the history of dance "written step by step", the celebratory events, and every human endeavor, filmed in their natural and social context of action, at the moment of their authentic execution - and not through a fake representation - determine, create the form, style, and characterize the show.

Today: «Cafes of Lesvos»
Episode 3

A mapping of café life that is lost -and perhaps reborn- in places with special symbolism for local communities. Both in the past and today, the contribution of coffee shops is manifold in terms of shaping urban sociality. The characterized as historic cafes, some of which, like those of Lesvos, count more than 100 years of life, are a point of reference and places of particular cultural value for local communities. As centers of gathering, meeting, discussion of men and women over time, they have basically been the backbone for the cohesion of the social and spiritual life of the villages of Lesvos, such as Plomari, Agiasos, and Mantamados, which were visited by the lens of the show.



Direction - research: Antonis Tsavalos
Photography: Giorgos Chrysafakis, Efthimis Theodosis
Editing: Alkis Antoniou, Ioanna Pogiantzi
Sound recording: Daphne Farazi
Production management: Elena Theologiti

Available on ERTFLIX.

https://www.ertflix.gr/series/ser.128866-ellinon-dromena/


 
     




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