BRIDGES OVER THE IONIA SEA

Twelve thirty-minute film "journals", of which four will be screened. 1) A Journal for Francesco: When the filmmaker asked him what gift he would like to send him after leaving his half-ruined village, teanager Francesco had asked for postpards from varius places. Instead of cards, Dimitri Mavrikiosdedicated one of the journals from the Bridges Over Ionian Sea to him. 2) The Double Journal: The spectacular maritime celebrations of Venice noblewoman, offer the pretext for a ramble among the sities and through the common history of Greeks and Italians of the Renaissance. 3) The Otranto Journal: The images begin and end in the land of Otranto -the part of Italy closest to Greece. The convoy of the Madonna blessing the waters of the Ionia Sea, the pageantry of the nocturnam celebration of Otranto, the byzantine monuments of Salento, the ancient Greek theatres of Sicily, the famous temple of Segesta, the Dionysian memories of the celebration of Capriniano; all become points of refence in the centuries -old and shared cultural course of the people living on the "shores" of the Ionian Sea. 4) A Journal for Ida de Biasi: On the eve of the 21st century, and on the occasion of Italian teacher Ida de Biasi' s one hundredth birthday, Dimitri Mavrikios dedicates to his "one century old" teacher a "journal" that focuses on the relations between Greeks and Italians during a century thats she lived in as a child, the nineteenth...