Two-day conference entitled "History and Politics in the work of Pantelis Voulgaris"

The Film Archive of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs within the framework of the annual scientific meetings entitled "The Testimony of the Cinematographic Image", on Thursday May 19 and Friday May 20, 2005 organised at the amphitheatre "Yiannos Kranidiotis" (Akadimias 1) a two-day conference entitled "History and Politics in the work of Pantelis Voulgaris".

University professors, film experts and journalists analysed the work of the director, who, for three decades records and comments through his lens important facts of the modern political and social life of our country.

The following papers were presented in the conference:

Yannis Soldatos (Historian of Cinema): Voulgaris’ Greece: landscape of misunderstanding

Andreas Pagoylatos (Theorist of Cinema): On the cinematographic poetry of Pantelis Voulgaris

Vasilis Vamvakas (University of Thessaloniki): The Engagement Of Anna (To Proxenio Tis Annas) :  Bourgeois introversion and migratory inwardness

Stathis Valoukos (University of Thessaloniki): History in Eleftherios Venizelos

Panagis Panagjotopoulos (University of Thessaloniki): From the Acropole to the "Alkazar": Popular sentiments and social mobility in the work of Pantelis Voulgaris

Nikos Poulakis (Polytechnic University of Ipiros): Acropole: A musicological reading

Eva Stefani (University of Athens): The Engagement Of Anna (To Proxenio Tis Annas): Family and desire

Yannis Papatheodorou (University of Volos): Happy Day: Nightmare scripts for happy days

Polymeris Voglis (University of Volos): Stone years (Petrina Chronia): The political prisoners in the collective memory

Athina Kartalou (Panteion University): It's A Long Road (Ola Einai Dromos): A road movie?

Vena Georgakopoulou (Eleftherotypia): Quiet days in August (Isiches Meres Tou Avgoustou)

Maria Komninou (University of Athens): Brides (Nifes) and Amerika Amerika: Variations in the big subject of immigration

Ioanna Laliotou (University of Volos): Immigration and national memory: The Brides (Nifes)

Gianna Athanasatou (University of Thessaloniki): The view of sexes in the films of Pantelis Voulgaris

The papers presented in the context of the conference will soon be published in a volume, a practice that was followed by previous conferences of the Cinematographic Archive.