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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
Successors of the Minoan potters, the Thrapsanian craftsmen continue to create ceramics in the numerous workshops that operate in and around their village, literally taken out of their land. What exactly happens to Thrapsanian pottery and what makes it so special?
In this episode of Meet the Craftsmen, Ira visits Thrapsano, a village south of Heraklion that lives and breathes to the rhythm of dozens of wheels that spin in pottery workshops all day, but also of furnaces that glow at night.
Along with Ira, the viewer will watch how pottery is created. From the extraction and mixing of the soil that will give it its special elements, until the molding, lifting, finishing, and drying each one of them,
Before it is carefully stacked in the huge furnace it will need to exceed 1000 degrees to bake 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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