28th THESSALONIKI INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL
5 MARCH → 15 MARCH 2026
GENEALOGY OF THE FUTURE
Archives and Film
Monday March 9th
11.00-12.30
Pavlos Zannas
*Free admission upon issuing a zero-price ticket from the Festival counters. Tickets will become available one day prior to the event. The discussion will be held with a simultaneous translation in English and in Greek.
As part of the major tribute All the world’s memory of the 28th Thessaloniki This open discussion, organized as part of the Festival’s major tribute All the World’s Memory, explores how archives are preserved, activated, and transformed into living narrative material in contemporary cinema. The discussion highlights the many uses of archival material – as historical record, artistic tool, and raw source for new forms of storytelling. From film and official documents to personal images and digital traces, the archive is approached not as something static, but as a living organism that continues to engage with the present and inspire the future.
The discussion will be preceded by a screening of the short film The Unknowing of Things, directed by Aristotelis Maragkos. Participants: Elizabeth Klinck, producer, researcher, and archival licensing specialist on award-winning documentaries; Vasilis Alexopoulos, Director of the ERT Archive; Amalia Pappa, Deputy Director General of the General State Archives; Éric Cambronne, British Pathé Licence Executive; Takis Zontiros, Greek Visions creator. Moderator: Marianna Kakounaki, journalist and filmmaker.
PARTICIPANTS
ELIZABETH KLINCK
Archive producer and music clearance specialist
Elizabeth Klinck is an archive producer and music clearance specialist on international documentaries and fiction films that have garnered Emmy, BAFTA, CSA, Peabody, and Oscar awards. She also leads workshops and produces industry sessions at international markets and film festivals. Filmography: http://imdb.to/1isd76y
AMALIA PAPPA
Deputy General Director, General State Archives of Greece
Graduate of the Law School of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She completed postgraduate studies at the Sorbonne University (Paris I). She served as Director of the Historical Archive of Macedonia (1989 – 1992) and subsequently as Head of various departments at the Central Service of the General State Archives (1992 – 2019). She is a member of the Scientific Committee of the Cavafy Archive (2017 –), and served as Scientific Coordinator for the archival documentation of the Cavafy Archive (2017 – 2018). She has also been a scientific advisor to the Institute for Mediterranean Studies for the archival documentation of the Onassis Archive (2017 – 2024). She is a member of the Ethics Committee of the Archives of Contemporary Social History (1999 –) and served as Scientific Coordinator for European Union programs (2005 – 2006). She has served as President of the Hellenic Archives Society (1999 – 2003, 2011 – 2015). She is a member of the Society of American Archivists and the Hellenic Society for the History of Law.
VASILIS ALEXOPOULOS
Journalist, Director of the ERT (Greek national broadcaster) Archive
Vasilis Alexopoulos is a journalist at Hellenic Radio Television (ERT S.A.) and Director of the Archive Department. He studied Political Science (BA) and Sociology (MA) at Teme University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and holds a Master’s degree from the Athens University of Economics and Business.
In 2004, he was a member of the founding team that established the National Audiovisual Archive of Greece, where he served as Head of Content until 2009. Since 2011, he has been Director of the ERT Archive.
ERIC CAMBRONNE
Licence Executive at British Pathé
Represents the British Pathé newsreel archive library and supports film & documentary makers, producers, researchers and archive enthusiasts in their projects and content creation.
British Pathé is home to a treasure trove of news films from the 20th century. Spanning the years from 1896-1978, the entire archive collection of 85,000 films includes authentic footage from around the globe of major events, famous faces, fashion trends, travel, science, and culture and more.
TAKIS ZONTIROS
Founder of Greek Visions
Takis Zontiros is the founder and curator of Greek Visions, an online archive dedicated to contemporary Greek culture.
He studied Photography at the Technological Educational Institute (TEI) of Athens and completed an MA in Digital Media at Goldsmiths. He then worked for 10 years as a Social Media Manager and Creative Strategist for galleries and arts centres in London, including the Whitechapel Gallery, the Southbank Centre, the Hayward Gallery, and Somerset House.
He currently works as a communications and strategy consultant for brands in Greece and abroad, while continuing to document Greek cultural production on a daily basis through Greek Visions.
MODERATOR
MARIANNA KAKAOUNAKI
Journalist, filmmaker
