With his film “01”, the fatherly director Dimitris Mouzakitis participates today in the 26th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, presenting a subversive tribute to our great poet, Nano Valaoritis.
The film, which began filming in 2014watches him late poet and his partner, painter Marie Wilsonduring the last years of their lives, when they lived together in an apartment in the center of Athens.
As the creator himself notes in the newspaper “Peloponnisos”: “It is about a reflection of Nanos Valaoritis in the cinema lens, which weaves personal memory in space and time. A personal microcosm where multifaceted manifestations of creative life unfold”.
Dimitris Mouzakitis was born in 1978. He studied at the University of Economics and Photography at the TEI of Athens. He completed postgraduate studies in Culture and Communication at the University of Athens.
Since 2007, he regularly teaches photography, while he is a key partner of the Film Library of Greece.
For her only chance of his acquaintance with the poetthe fatherly director noted: “It is a life experience, it is something very deep for us! The film is a confession of a great personality about many situations concerning her life and work. He confided in us things, which he had not even told his own people!
It is a complex documentary, not only about poetry or visual arts. It is an observational documentary, we break away from the classic interview format. It touches on the themes of life, death, creation, human relationships, but it also has humor. It delves into areas of Valaorite life that are not well known until today. It is a “living” and not a descriptive documentary. It’s not just a good interview. We follow the poet and his partner in their daily activities”.
From tomorrow, the film will be available to the public through the Festival’s online platform. (www.filmfestival.gr)
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