Take the Gifts

Double portrait of the twomajor contemporary Greek poets, Mrs Kiki Dimoula (aged 80) and Mr Titos Patrikios (aged 83). The meeting between the two poets in the garden of the Athens Music Hall on 6 June 2011, with Professor Nasos Vagenas moderating their discussion, evolved into a unique lesson of aesthetics and the ethics of the art of poetry. Poet and filmmaker Lefteris Xanthopoulos filmed this major cultural event and then spoke with each of the poets seperately, complementing, broadening, and perhaps doing away with the limits, the stereotypes and the prejudices one may have about poetry, poets and the function of poetic writing.
Screening Schedule

No physical screenings scheduled.

Script: Lefteris Xanthopoulos
Cinematography: Dimitris Kordelas
Editing: Spyros Tsiftsis
Sound: Constantinos Kordelas
Music: Anastasia Papadimitriou
Production: ERT SA Hellenic Broadcasting Corp., Periplus
Producers: Thanos Lambropoulos
Format: HDCAM Color
Production Country: Greece
Production Year: 2011
Duration: 52
Contact: ERT SA Hellenic Broadcasting Corp. Fotini Yannoulatou Greece T. +30 210 7761 192 salesdpt@ert.gr www.ert.gr Periplous, Greece Thanos Lambropoulos T. +30 210 8670 478 periplus@ath.forthnet.gr

Lefteris Xanthopoulos