The fifth consecutive volume of the series "The testimony of cinematographic picture", realised by the Service of Diplomatic and Historical Archives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and its Cinematographic Archive, was released by Papazisis Editions. It is entitled "History and Politics in the Work of Pantelis Voulgaris", edited by Photini Tomai.
A well-known film director inside and outside the Greek borders, Pantelis Voulgaris has connected his name with the renewal of the country's cinematography. In an unwavering course since the 1960s, his lens carefully observes the major changes of the Greek society. He records and comments with his lens the important events of the country's modern political and social life and he thus becomes a reporter of his era.
His morals, his sensitivity, his aesthetics, the until today artistic deposit of this great creator who allowed his glance to infiltrate with honesty in the past, are examined by Greek intellectuals, historians, political and social scientists, researchers and filmmakers, who deposit their own readings of History and Politics in the work of Voulgaris based on the testimony of the cinematographic pictures, as he recorded them with his own lens.
Specifically, the volume includes texts by Ilias Giannakakis, Andreas Pagoulatos, Stelios Kymionis, Eva Stefani, Vasilis Vamvakas, Georgios Polydorakis, Yannis Papatheodorou, Nikos Potamitis, Stathis Valoukos, Lefteris Xanthopoulos, Polymeris Voglis, Panagis Panagiotopoulos, Angeliki Pantaleon, Nikos Poulakis, Athina Kartalou, loanna Laliotou, Maria Komninou, loanna Athanasatou, Irini Sifaki and Yannis Soldatos. The foreword of the book is written by the then Minister of Foreign Affairs Ms Dora Bakoyannis.
February 17, 2011