This workshop is part of CinEd, the European cinema education program of the Greek Film Archive. Using the screening of the ethnographic documentary Fishermen and Fishing (1961) by Leon Loisios, the workshop aims to introduce middle school students to artistic and ethnographic documentary filmmaking. Participants engage with cinematic language in a hands-on and poetic way, exploring aspects of reality—here, communities of the past that have profoundly changed, such as the fishing village of Molyvos in Lesvos in the early 1960s. Following a sensitive, inductive, interactive, and intuitive approach to film education, drawing on educational drama, the ultimate goal is for student groups to express themselves by creating their own short audiovisual or other artistic works reflecting contemporary aspects of their local community.
Instructors
Ioulia Merminga
Ioulia Merminga teaches film theory and practice at the Department of Communication and Media Studies and the Department of Digital Arts and Film at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She is the coordinator of CinEd for the Greek Film Archive and serves as a facilitator in its educational screenings.
Katerina Papageorgiou
Katerina Papageorgiou has worked for the past fifteen years as a drama and theatre education teacher. In 2014, she founded the Theatre Workshop for children and adolescents at the 14th Day Art Space. In 2016, for about a year, she worked as a drama education teacher in Praksis shelters, within the Unaccompanied Children Enhancement program. Since 2023, she has collaborated with the Greek Film Archive as an educational drama facilitator for CinEd.
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