FITITIVISMATA
The “DIAPLASIS” program of the Hellenic Parliament TV is a inter-university creative internship program for the production of original television content with a youthful outlook and aesthetics. For the academic year 2020–2021, the program, which was launched in 2018, involves 65 funded students and 20 volunteers, as well as 64 liaison University professors from 52 departments and 17 universities in Greece.
Students join for one semester an internship programme funded by the Hellenic Parliament, they attend an intensive inter-departmental and interdisciplinary seminar under the guidance of the University Department liaisons, they form working groups which operate in Athens and Thessaloniki, and they conduct research, film, edit (image, sound, music, graphics) and sign the 15-minute documentaries of the “Students’ Dissertations” series, which in turn are broadcast on the Hellenic Parliament TV.
In the period 2018–2020, 92 students participated in the program and 100 films were created, while in 2020, 36 films were completed by 34 students.
The Films of the Program
Without a Mask, 16΄
Director: Niki Arniakou
Department of Communication, Media, and Culture, Panteion / Department of Communication and Media Studies, University of Athens / Department of Music Studies, University of Athens
People living in a tiny village on the foothills of Mount Mainalo talk about they way in which Covid-19 affected them and describe their new everyday life.
In the City Labyrinths, 10΄
Director: Daphni-Vassiliki Thermidi
Department of Graphic Design and Visual Communication, University of West Attica / Department of Theatre Studies, University of Athens / Department of Cultural Technology and Communication, University of the Aegean / Department of Music Studies, University of Athens
The labyrinth in the center of the city becomes the place of aimless wandering. The sounds and visual surprises trigger the imagination and engage us in a different sort of quest. A hybrid between observational documentary and animation.
The End of an Era, 9΄
Director Elizabeth Liarakou-Fisher
Department of Communication and Media Studies, University of Athens
An observational documentary that follows the decline and ultimate closure of a local DVD Store in Pagrati, Athens, while conveying the difficulty in maintaining a small-scale business in the age of globalization, as well as a “dying” trade.
In Fabric, 16΄
Director: Nicolas Sampson
School of Film Studies of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
The owner of a clothes’ cottage industry named after his mother, demonstrates the difficulty and passion that are part and parcel of the production in today’s Greece.
Immovable, 13΄
Director: Stathis Kazantzidis
School of Journalism and Mass Communications, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki / School of Music Studies, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki / Department of Graphic Design and Visual Communication, University of West Attica
The activity of the Thessaloniki’s Citizens Action for the Protection of Cultural Heritage, in regard to the preservation of antiquities in situ in Venizelou, in the under-construction metro station.
Boats out of Wood, 12΄
Director: Christina Vasilakou, Angelina Dimitriadi, Yannis Chatziioannou
Department of Music Studies, University of Athens
Images and sounds of a day in the shipyard of the village of Ierissos in Chalkidiki, Greece.
Out of Wood, 15΄
Director: Nicolas Sampson
School of Film Studies of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
In their family chair-making business, a mother and her son narrate stories that render their line of work part of their identity and legacy.
