a new documentary project
Portraits
of Greece in Crisis is a new series of documentaries about the Greek
crisis created to fulfill the need for an alternative crisis narrative.
Press release via PortraitsofGreeceinCrisis.com
Portraits of Greece in Crisis is a series of independent and self-funded mini-documentaries
about the Greek crisis. An ongoing project that was created in order to
fulfill the need for an alternative crisis narrative, against an
unprecedented big media propaganda.
Portraits
of people through the daily routine of which the Greek crisis is being
described, portraits of institutions that are collapsing and of
conceptions that are being distorted during a crisis that is economic,
political, cultural, moral and social.
In essence, Portraits of Greece in Crisis
is a project that films the experiment executed upon Greece; a
registration of today, that tomorrow will turn into a historical
documentation of the crisis.
Five
portraits have been released, until now. They describe the issues of
unemployment, social state’s failure, resurgent fascism and xenophobia,
as long as citizens’ efforts for self-organization against collapsing
constitutions. The project aims to cover as widely as possible crisis’
spectrum in every corner of Greece and beyond.
The
portrait “Kialo Amadu, minor immigrant in Athens”, one of the most
popular films of the project, approaches the particularly sensitive
issue of racism in a country which is forced into poverty. Kialo talks
about his life in Athens and describes the real “danger” of a society,
where compassion and solidarity are replaced by racism and xenophobia.
The
most recent portrait is about Aggeliki. Aggeliki is a blind employee in
a public hospital. Aggeliki’s salary, as well as the salaries of
thousands of disabled people working in public section, has not been
excluded from the cuts. According to international data, when a seeing
person covers its vital needs with a salary of 1000 euros, a blind
person needs the treble salary for the same needs. The cuts in salaries
and pensions of disabled people are one more proof of social state’s
failure during the greek crisis. Government’s mercilessness reaches its
peak with the repression of disabled people’s demonstrations by the riot
police.
The project Portraits of Greece in Crisis
is currently self-funded and relies entirely on volunteer work and its
creators’ contributions. The members of the project aim to shortly seek
for viewers – co-producers who will help financially, in order to cover
even more aspects of the social experiment that is taking place in
Greece and is possible to be applied in other European countries soon.
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