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On a Little Greek Island (1978)
Directed by Matheo Yamalakis
Documentary · 56m
“The difference between a computer and people is absurdity”: this phrase, one of the first heard in Matheo Yamalakis’s film, is the key to a documentary that unfolds like a joyful revelation. Yamalakis was a sensitive filmmaker whose oeuvre is still largely unfamiliar to the inquiring viewer. His camera wanders around Ios in the summer of 1976, freely, almost associatively recording aspects of a Greek island perched on the cusp between a traditional, pre-modern world and a sweeping shift in mores. Therein lies the absurd, bitter comicality of this perceptive portrayal of the island’s microsociety, which covers everyone: grotesque local dignitaries, storytelling taverna jokesters, cunning small shopkeepers, naïve tourists, young women crushed by the small-mindedness of provincial life. All are woven together in the most effortless, tenderest way, crafting a kaleidoscopic portrait of the Greek archipelago, timeless in its conception and power.
Crew
- Director
- Matheo Yamalakis
- Editor
- Matheo Yamalakis
Details
- Original title
- Σε Ένα Μικρό Ελληνικό Νησί
- Release date
- 1978-01-01
- Runtime
- 56m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- EL
- Spoken languages
- English, Greek