Evi Stamou

This documentary explores the cinematic elements of George Seferis’s poem “Thrush,” the poet’s references to the art of cinema, as presented in his diaries and his essays, ultimately highlighting an ambivalent attitude of the poet towards cinema.

Against: the false idea of timelessness./ Against: sameness and stillness./ Every moment is true only when transfigured into the next. Every image can exist only as a transition./ Identity through continuous transformation./ Perpetuum mobile./ Everyday life as a perpetual motion piece.