The Great Goddess of Cyprus
Friday, 02 September 2011 22:27
We reveal the heritage that Kypris-Aphrodite, the Great Goddess of Cyprus, has bequeathed to us today, and restore her hitherto distorted image.
Synopsis: Following a group of women frame drummers who are working toward a ritual performance at the famous temple of Aphrodite in Palaipaphos Cyprus, will be able to discover the many shapes and forms Kypris-Aphrodite takes.
Price Of A Daughter
Friday, 14 October 2011 12:52
Women’s rights activist Pembe Mentesh is about to discover ‘The price of a Daughter’, as she searches for her missing great aunt who was one of 4000 Turkish Cypriot women sold into marriage to an Arab suitor and sent abroad some seventy years ago, never to be heard from again.
Women Potters of Cyprus
Sunday, 03 September 2000 22:25
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.
Cypriot Traditional Dances
Wednesday, 27 August 1997 14:46An ethnographical presentation of the female and male traditional dances of Cyprus. The filming of these traditional dances in 1995 recorded the last old men and women from the eastern regions of Cyprus, who used to perform these dances at weddings and fiestas. Unfortunately these dances continue to be performed today only by folklore dance troupes.
Sketches of Cypriot Literary Figures
Friday, 01 September 2000 22:05
This documentary, as the title reveals, has as its subject the relatively recent literature of Cyprus. It covers the largest part of the period of the British Colonial Rule of the island, and more specifically from the last decade of the 19th century up to World War Two. The literature of that period is presented as a transition
Cyprus on the Silk Routes
Monday, 01 September 1997 22:33
This documentary film concerns the Cyprus silk industry, which has played an important role in the economic life of the island throughout the centuries. Although silk appeared in Cyprus from the Byzantine times, the period in which this material predominated in the "Silk Routes" is mainly from the 13th to the 15th century A.D. during the Lusignan Rule of the island. Cyprus was then developed into the manufacturing and trade center of
Entelechy
Wednesday, 19 January 2011 14:59
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.
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