DOCUMENTARY
CHRISTIAN MONUMENTS
Greeks have the special fortune to live in a country of various cultural levels, unique on the planet, starting from the Minoan civilization of Crete to the Christian orthodox spirituality.
This, the palimpsest of civilization with “the various action of stochastic adoptions” as mentioned by the Greek poet Konstantinos Kavafis has numerous vivid monuments of cultural value.
In this film, the Christian monuments of Greece are distinguished, not as much as architectural but as a vehicle of a higher spirituality with which the pilgrim becomes communicant of Devine. Also, through an idiomorphic aesthetic approach the artistic achievements of Hellenic Christianity are distinguished as navigator of LIGHT with the awe they give.
This navigation begins from the ancient monuments and their remains that part of them were used to build the Greek Orthodox temples in the first Christian centuries. The aesthetic of filming had as central axis the endless movement forward, towards the light, towards God’s grace.
PRODUCTION: ALEXANDROS FILM Co. Ltd
YEAR 2004
Format: Video beta digital, Colour, 52min
CREDITS
| Director | Iannis Smaragdis |
| Executive Production | Alexandros Film Ltd |
| Executive Producer | Helen Smaragdis |
| Production for | «Solidarity» Development Organization of GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH |
| Script | Panayiotis Drakopoulos |
| Music | Christodoulos Chalaris |
| Direction of Photography | Panayiotis Vasilakis |
| Consultant of Photography and Colour Corrections | Nikos Smaragdis |
| Narration | Grigoris Patrikareas |
| Steadicam | Timos Koronetopoulos |
| Assistant Steadicam | Manos Arvanitakis |
| Editing | Dimosthenis Raptis |
| Production manager | Κostas Delakouras |
| Photographs | Andreas Smaragdis |
| Sound Engineer | Dimitris Athanasopoulos |
| Assistant Sound Engineer | Yiorgos Farmakis |
| Sound editing | Power Studio |
| Assistant Directors | Haralampos Tsoutsas |
| Fotis Zambetakis |
INTERNATIONAL SCREENINGS
- Amsterdam International Documentary Film Festival – Market in 2004 (IDFA)
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