Guardians of Time

The film portrays seven guards of archaeological sites in Greece. Simple people of toil and the earth, who worked and lived next to major archaeologists, learning, from their knowledge and passion, to honor the meaning of cultural continuity beyond national borders and identities. This is a travelogue of archaeological sites through their memories and testaments, beyond the framework of purely scientific documentation; an attempt to record the way they look at History as it progresses through time, becoming an experience and a fairy tale which is passed on from one generation to the next.
Screening Schedule

No physical screenings scheduled.
Script: Margarita Manda, Scientific Consultant: Antiklia Agrafioti
Cinematography: Evgenios Dionysopoulos
Editing: Takis Gorgorinis
Sound: Vangelis Vlessas, Panos Tzelekas
Production: Ideefixe Audiovisual Productions, Greek Film Centre, ERT SA Hellenic Broadcasting Corp.
Producers: Iraklis Mavroidis, Fenia Kossovitsa, Amanda Livanou
Format: Betacam SP Color
Production Country: Greece
Production Year: 2002
Duration: 61

Margarita Manda

She was born in Athens in 1963. She studied Political Science and French Literature at Athens University. At the same time she completed her studies in film direction at the Stavrakos Film School. She worked as an assistant director to many major Greek filmmakers, such as Yorgos Korras, George Panousopoulos, Vassilis Vafeas, Sotiris Goritsas, Angeliki Andoniou, Olga Malea, and Grigoris Karadinakis. She was also assistant director to Theo Angelopoulos in the films: Ulysses’ Gaze, Eternity and a Day, The Weeping Meadow, The Dust of Time. Her first short film, Winter (1984), won the First Prize at the Athens Student Film Festival. This was followed by two more shorts, Meeting (1986), which won an honorary mention at the Munich International Festival of Student Films, and Recollections (1991), which was selected at the Thessaloniki Film Festival. In 2001 she shot the feature documentary Guardians of Time, which won the FIPRESCI Award at the Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival in 2002. She wrote the texts for Periplanissis, a book on internationally renowned photographer Josef Koudelka, published by the Thessaloniki International Film Festival (1995), and the novel Still Memory (Metechmio Publishers, 2002).

Filmography

1984 Winter ’84 (short)
1986 Meeting (short)
1990 Recollections (short)
2002 Guardians of Time (doc.)
2004 Theo on Theo (doc.) (co-direction with Japanese producer Hayao Shibata)
2004 New Odessa – the Village of the Lake (doc.)
2005 Zerelia, the First Step (short doc.)