Completed Projects (11)
Entelechy
Synopsis
"The human soul is the entelechy of a natural body having life potentially within it."
Aristotle's concise reasoning, hovering in the vast universe, beams out to merge with the main body of Cypriot director Stavros Papageorghiou's documentary "Entelechy"; an ulyssean, twenty-year long journey in the labyrinths of archaeoastronomy, geodesy and philosophy.
Navigator and fellow traveller in this journey of initiation, is Cypriot researcher and painter Goris Gregoriades. Since the year 1990 Stavros Papageorghiou's camera follows and records Goris' quest for the discovery of the geodetic and archaeoastronomical dimension of Cyprus's ancient sacred temples and sanctuaries.
As a teenager, Chris abruptly abandoned his dream of becoming a fighter pilot of the US Navy to join a colourful yet reclusive Sufi sect led by the mysterious Turkish-Cypriot Sheikh Nazim. He then harbors a new dream of becoming an Islamic scholar. But the Sheikh has other, maybe grander, plans for him. A decade and half later, Chris, now known as Alauddin, lives in Germany, happily married to Fatima, the wife the Sheikh advised him to marry when he was 17, and working as a cook in the Sheikh’s restaurant. But despite his apparently problem-free lifestyle, Alauddin has begun to question whether the destiny alluded to by the Sheikh will ever materialize. He travels to Cyprus, the Shiekh’s home and spiritual headquarters, to find out.
Lullaby - Short Film
Limassol Carnival (The) - Documentary
A documentary referring to the history of the Limassol carnival, through archive material, and interviews.
Director: Thomas Kallis
Producer: Stavros Papageorghiou
-Talent? I have no great faith in it.
- Art is one thing and talent another. They are far apart.
Nikos Nikolaides is one of the most prominent figures in Greek literature. He was part of a new generation of poets and writers of the mid twentieth century.
Women Potters of Cyprus
Traditional women potters working on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus, who coil build cooking pots, jars, jugs, ovens and other clay containers on a slow moving turntable, us a technique reminiscent of ancient pottery. The women are the last of their generation. The similarities between traditional and ancient shapes, incised decorations, materials, and wood-burning kilns, provide an ideal ethnoarchaeological study of craft specialists.
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