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Establishing film practice research in the Greek academic and filmmaking environment

ABSTRACT

There are currently two types of people dealing with cinema at the Greek universities. The first are the theoreticians with background in film studies, who hold a PhD in film theory and approach their topic strictly from a theoretical point of view. The second type of university teaching staff are practical filmmakers that come directly from the industry. Most of them have neither academic background, nor a PhD, nor any research experience, while they approach their courses from a practical point of view sharing their experience from the industry. In the same time, the way that the industry is currently working in Greece, even the so-called independent cinema, does not provide the filmmakers with the required freedom of choices and exploration in order to express their personal development and gaze. The Greek independent filmmakers are trapped in a vicious circle of changing their form and style in order to find funding to create their films, giving their intellectual property just for the sake of creating something that is close to what they have imagined in the first place. It seems that for the time being, there are two main paths that someone in Greece could follow in order to deal with cinema. From my experience in the United Kingdom, where I completed my practice-based PhD in film practice, I know that there is also a third path. A path that connects theory and practice research and creates endless possibilities not only for film academics but for independent filmmakers as well. This is what I am trying to establish in Greece, an environment that is completely virgin at the moment. In this presentation I will present some critical issues, challenges and possibilities of establishing this third path in cinema in Greece.

BIO

Dr. Iakovos Panagopoulos is an award-winning Greek director and researcher, best known for his work Flickering Souls Set Alight (2019) and Allimonò (2020). Iakovos’s pioneering work is a combination of practical filmmaking and academic research. His goal is to narrow the gap between the two. He is directing-writing films and academic research on Media Practice, Film Practice and Film Studies. He is an active researcher, counting numerous international publications. He is an official researcher in StoryLab (Skills Training for Democratised Film Industries) and scientific collaborator in InArts (Interactive Arts Lab) of Ionian University. At the moment Iakovos is teaching as an academic scholar in Audio Visual Arts department of Ionian University. He also in the middle of his post-doctoral research in Panteion University of Social and Political Science with Prof. Seferiadis. The title of his research is: “Suspended spaces of memory: Heterotopic historical narratives and contentious politics in contemporary cinematic practice”.

MPE/MeCCSA Practice Network Symposium 2021
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