{"id":7076,"date":"2019-05-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-05T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2023eleusis.eu\/the-eleusinians-2\/"},"modified":"2022-10-04T22:24:57","modified_gmt":"2022-10-04T19:24:57","slug":"the-eleusinians-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2023eleusis.eu\/en\/the-eleusinians-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Eleusinians"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Almost two decades after the film, entitled \u201cMourning Rock\u201d, the monumental film for the City of Eleusis, Filippos Koutsaftis returns to meet the city\u2019s reality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Mourning Rock is a documentary film that managed to depict genuinely the deepest essence of the city with its long history throughout the centuries, its diverse character, its current reality. The director worked for 12 years in Eleusis in order to make this film and he got to know almost every person and every rock of this city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In view of the previous documentary film, the new venture of Filippos Koutsaftis will consist of a new film with the provisional title “Eleusinians” accompanied also by an art installation that includes the past, as it was reflected in the 80 hours of \u201cMourning Rock\u201d film material, and the present as it was captured through current filming, sculpturing the reality shaped during the intervening years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first steps for the new venture have already been taken, and consist of the classification, maintenance and archiving of the 80 hours \u201cMourning Rock\u201d digitalized film material. It involves the film and video recordings that have never been projected and refer to the period 1988 to 2000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The protagonists of that time are selected from the digitalized material, in order to become the links with the current state and the director through his new film-making, captures these faces and their stories over a twenty-year period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As part of the project\u00a0preparation, the award-winning director, has begun filming in the city and gets interviews from familiar and young “characters” of\u00a0his narrative.\u00a0You can actively participate in this\u00a0project\u00a0and become an integral part of the closing ceremony of Eleusis 2021 Cultural Capital of Europe programme.If you \u00a0have an oral testimony \u00a0to narrate about the city’s contemporary past or you want to provide information\u00a0of where are the characters\u00a0who composed the successful “Mourning Rock” and made the contemporary image of Eleusis known to \u00a0Greece and abroad,\u00a0please contact Eleusis 2021 and\u00a0the Directorate of Audience Development & Participation (Tel: +30 210 55 47 646)\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n