• 1990
  • 5h 40m
L'héritage de la chouette

Summary A 13-part documentary mini-series (directed by Chris Marker) on the significance of ancient Greek culture in the creation of the modern Western Civilization. View more details

  • 1990
  • 5h 40m

L'héritage de la chouette

Directed : Unknown

Written : Unknown

Stars : André Dussollier Vassilis Vassilikos Angélique Ionatos Giulia Sissa

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8.3

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Genres : History Documentary

Release date : Feb 8, 1990

Countries of origin : France Greece

Language : English Russian Japanese French Greek

Filming locations : Paris, France

Production companies : FIT Productions La Sept Attica Art Productions

Summary A 13-part documentary mini-series (directed by Chris Marker) on the significance of ancient Greek culture in the creation of the modern Western Civilization. View more details

Details

Genres : History Documentary

Release date : Feb 8, 1990

Countries of origin : France Greece

Language : English Russian Japanese French Greek

Filming locations : Paris, France

Production companies : FIT Productions La Sept Attica Art Productions

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L'héritage de la chouette (1990)

Episodes

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Episode 1 • Feb 08, 1990
Symposium ou Les idées reçues
The 1st of 13 episodes sets a tone for back and forth brainstorming by savvy talking heads, some pictured gathering in cities round the world for old fashioned drinking: how much of what we know about the Greeks is not exactly true?
Episode 2 • Feb 08, 1990
Olympisme ou La Grèce imaginaire
Instead of its commonly assumed use to promote Democracy, thinkers show how the Nazis distorted the legacy of ancient Greece, such as the Olympics, for their own undemocratic purposes.
Episode 3 • Feb 15, 1990
Démocratie ou La cité des songes
The City of Dreams examines what was meant by Democracy in ancient Greek cities such as Athens, what were it's limitations, and how it relates to what we mean by the word today. Some, such as Elia Kazan, do not think it amounted to much.
Episode 4 • Feb 15, 1990
Nostalgie ou Le retour impossible
Spinning off from the stories of the Odyssey and of updated migration epics such as that of Elia Kazan 's family, Nostalgia questions to what extent we can actually put ourselves back in ancient times we do not fully understand.
Episode 5 • Feb 22, 1990
Amnésie ou Le sens de l'histoire
The Greek word for loss of memory is used in this episode to explore how modern politicians deliberately speak only to the present and passing moment, and do not foster a sense of history.
Episode 6 • Feb 22, 1990
Mathématique ou L'empire des signes
Mathematics, in its original sense meaning Learning, is another word we got from Greece.Here a smaller group of talking heads focus on how ancient concepts of numbering and measuring underlie our ability to think.
Episode 7 • Mar 08, 1990
Logomachie ou Les mots de la tribu
Essay filmmakers like Marker and Godard love word play.Here as images show how Greek derived words permeate our media, our street signs, even our graffiti, we delve in a semiotic kind of way into the basis of speech itself.
Episode 8 • Mar 08, 1990
Musique ou L'espace de dedans
As music (again a Greek word) stemmed from imitating nature's sounds and in Byzantine/ Orthodox times became an expression of suffering and misery, Marker challenges with new experimental examples from the UPIC studio and Iannis Xenakis.
Episode 9 • Mar 15, 1990
Cosmogonie ou L'usage du monde
This episode is classic Chris Marker, tying together an abandoned Athenian power plant turned cultural center, ancient Greek statuary, a department store in Japan, young men destroyed by armored warfare during WWI, and a comparison between Plato's parable of the cave and contemporary cinema.
Episode 10 • Mar 15, 1990
Mythologie ou La vérité du mensonge
What were the stories Greece shared that were a kind of religion, how do the stories relate to ones in Japan,and was violence involved or did polytheism prevent the more extensive violence accompanying, several speakers argue, monotheism?
Episode 11 • Mar 22, 1990
Misogynie ou Les pièges du désir
The complicated subject of sexuality and gender in Greece includes homoeroticism, how large a social role women did play , how teaching about the danger of desire and the limits of the body compare with more repressive Christianity.
Episode 12 • Mar 22, 1990
Tragédie ou L'illusion de la mort
As Marker compares staging of Greek plays with their Japanese counterparts,questions arise as to the meaning of such theater in a specifically democratic space, and warnings against excess and hubris.
Episode 13 • Mar 22, 1990
Philosophie ou Le triomphe de la chouette
The banquets we have seen over 13 parts come to an end, as our talking heads make their last comments on the lasting gifts of a culture without a sacred book, and where the owl looms even larger as a symbol of wisdom.
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