I borrow a few verses from a George Seferis’ poem:
… meanwhile Greece goes on travelling, always travelling
and if we see “the Aegean flower with corpses”
it will be with those who tried to catch the big ship by swimming after it
those who got tired of waiting for the ships that cannot move…
… The ships hoot now that dusk fall on Pireaus,
hoot and hoot, but no capstan moves,
no chain gleams wet in the vanishing light,
the captain stands like a stone in white and gold…
… curtains of mountains, archipelagos, naked granite.
They call the one ship that sails AG ONIA 937.
George Seferis, “In the manner of G.S.” (Book of Excercises, 1940)
Memi Spyratou, president of AGON festival
AGON 2012 took place at the Greek Film Archive in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute of Athens, with the support of the Lambrakis Foundation and archaeology & arts online. Communication Sponsor: MEGA Channel.
SELECTION COMMITTEE
Dr Evangelos Karamanes, researcher, Hellenic Folklore Research Centre
Panos Kyparissis, film director
George Mouzakitis, film director, producer
Zeta Xekalaki, archaelogist, editor in archaeology & arts
Yiannis Simiriotis, new technologies
JURY
Francesca Chiesa, attache of the Italian Cultural Institute of Athens
Tony Coe, independent producer, director
Manos Zaharias, film director
Nikolaos Kaltsas, director of the National Archaeological Museum of Athens
Dionyssis Petroutsopoulos, director of photography
Memi Spyratou, film director, president of the AGON festival
