The Prism GR2010 is a collective documentation of Greece the winter of 2010. A multimedia experiment exploring new formats of non-fiction narratives and multimedia journalism.
The Prism is the creation of Nikos Katsaounis and Nina Maria Paschalidou, both documentary filmmakers, producers, and friends.
In the winter of 2010, with Greece in the midst of a financial and social meltdown, Nina and Nikos returned home after having lived abroad for many years.
Their desire was to tell the story of the tormented country they witnessed through a new type of narrative. Through a process of creative collaboration and documentation, they put together a group of 14 photojournalists and videographers, mentoring and enabling them to make the transition to a multimedia storyteller.
Here you will find the outcome of the experiment: 27 multimedia stories, as echoed through the voices of people from various walks of life that have been affected by the crisis. In this critical time, we have the capacity…
The Prism GR2010 is a collective documentation of Greece the winter of 2010. A multimedia experiment exploring new formats of non-fiction narratives and multimedia journalism.
The Prism is the creation of Nikos Katsaounis and Nina Maria Paschalidou, both documentary filmmakers, producers, and friends.
In the winter of 2010, with Greece in the midst of a financial and social meltdown, Nina and Nikos returned home after having lived abroad for many years.
Their desire was to tell the story of the tormented country they witnessed through a new type of narrative. Through a process of creative collaboration and documentation, they put together a group of 14 photojournalists and videographers, mentoring and enabling them to make the transition to a multimedia storyteller.
Here you will find the outcome of the experiment: 27 multimedia stories, as echoed through the voices of people from various walks of life that have been affected by the crisis. In this critical time, we have the capacity…
Henry Jenkins is the director, Comparative Media Studies Program at MIT. In this viral-info-snack he discusses the power of media in a 21 century trans-mediated world. A world where converging technologies and cultures give rise to a new media landscape.
Directed by Nikos Katsaounis
70,000km of National Highway. 600,000 Long Distance Truck Drivers. that is sort of what this is about. Simply put, but that understates it.
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I mean, it's sort of about endurance, and back sweat.
39 hours in a cramped smelly box that vibrates nonstop.
Loud music playing out of shitty speakers.
A car horn that constantly blares and a sun that constantly beats.
A heat so intense it'll stop your breath.
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It's about
a desperate need to earn.
No education means no options.
Poverty means pain.
Either labor in a field, migrate to a city or drive trucks in maddening circles.
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It's about a country.
A country exploding with new things.
New money. New ideas. New buildings. New cities.
New roads. New powers. New everything.
Those new things are being carried and hauled from one end to the other.
The carriers are rogue and reckless.
Under qualified for such a responsibility
and under appreciated for it's execution.
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Often it's about having a family 1276 kilometers to the north.
not…
The ΣYMPOSIUM was formed as a response to the various challenges that Greece has been facing over the past few years. Its purpose is to bring bright fresh minds together in order to exchange ideas and cross pollinate them across disciplines. This year's subject was "Storytelling in the 21st century: Has technology empowered us from controlling our own narrative about life".
"2012: Time for Change"
2012timeforchange.com/
projects a radical alternative to apocalyptic doom and gloom. Directed by Emmy Award nominee Joao Amorim, the film follows journalist Daniel Pinchbeck, author of the bestselling 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl, on a quest for a new paradigm that integrates the archaic wisdom of tribal cultures with the scientific method. As conscious agents of evolution, we can redesign post-industrial society on ecological principles to make a world that works for all. Rather than breakdown and barbarism, 2012 will herald the birth of a regenerative planetary culture, where collaboration replaces competition, where exploration of psyche and spirit becomes the new cutting edge, replacing the sterile materialism that has pushed our world to the brink.
Interviews with design scientists, anthropologists, physicists such as Dean Radin, Barbara Marx Hubbard, John Todd and Paul Stamets and celebrities such as Sting, Ellen Page and Gilberto Gil.
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