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| Where people don`t spare of their dreams... | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| HISTORY OF THE CINEMA CLUB | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 3rd Panorama of Independent Filmakers | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| History of the Club Members of the Club The current Program Movie Presentations Questionaire Results |
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| Our Cinema Club is an initiative of the Cultural Section which belongs to the Trade Union Center of Thessaloniki (T.U.C.T.). This Year, 1999, it completed five years from its departure. The Cinema Club is an attempt Which started as an experiment and challenge, from the former administration of .the T.U.C.T , in May 1994. Since then it has developed into a serious medium for cultural intervention to the working people, but also to the city of Thessaloniki. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| The famous director Theodoros Aggelopoulos has been awarded from the president of T.U.C. Panagiotis Avramopoulos... | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| The first screenings, arranged by the Club, that took place every Thursday -under bad conditions, like an elementarious infrastructure and rented equipment, with many shortages, but also with a lot of good taste and appetite for work, gave way to the second running period, which started in autumn 1995. In that new period the equipment was the club's property, the conditions were much better and the Club known by almost anybody in town. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| In that 2nd period the Club introduced tributes devoted to several topics, anniversaries, facts. The period ended in Summer 1996. In the next running period of the Club much had changed. After six months of reparations that had taken place in the big show room of the T.U.C.T. and with the support of the Organization for the Cultural Capital, the Cinema Club continued its screenings in the renewed hall. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| The ministry of Defence Akis Tsohatzopoulos in the film - tribute "The best drug... the love for the life"... |
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| In this 3rd period there were high- technical specifications in sound and picture. This fact gave the Cultural Section of the T.U.C.T the opportunity to negotiate for new agreements with new groups wanting to collaborate with the Club. The groups that collaborated with the Club in the last five years were many. Some of them were The Ministries of Defense, Labor, Culture and Macedonian -Thrace, the General Office of the New Generation, the Prefectural Authority of Thessaloniki, the radio station of HRT3 102FM , The International Trade Center of Thessaloniki (I.T.T.)*. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| The president of Union of OTA M-T Babis Barbounakis and our art director presenting the program of 5th tribute for Greek Cinema... |
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| The Club's cooperations included also groups directly connected to cinema, like the Greek Cinema Center, the Film Library of Greece and the Short Film Festival in Drama. Since its beginning the Club showed over 570 movies, many of which were prefaced by specialists like directors, actors cinema people, but also historians, journalists and syndicalists. All of them had either to suggest, to present or to remember something related to the movie to be shown or the running tribute. There were scheduled 10-minute prologues which often endured an hour without to bore or create resentment among the visitors and without forcing people to go. This interest and cooperation by the visitors-viewers for the issues brought up by the Cinema Club gave way to the need for a more analytical chat about the cinema. HRT3 accepted the Club's proposal to organize a 30-days seminar. In this seminar, which was attended by one thousand of friends of the Cinema Club, famous cinema people presented the history, present and future of the cinema from the time of the heroic pioneers to the industry of cinema, the style, the schools and the introduction of the new technology in Greek Cinema production. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Elena Rapti member of municipality council of Thessaloniki speaking for "Culture - Politic for Youth", for the tribute "classic directors, love and death"... |
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| From its beginning the Club gave special attention to the Greek cinema. As we are living in a period dominated by the American cinema and with little European feedback, we wanted to support our people, because we believe that they manage to convert the special characteristics of our country, even under difficult conditions. Every September there is a 10-day tribute dedicated to the Greek cinema with which the Club starts its new season. This tribute consists of Greek movies produced by the Greek Cinema Center as well as independent productions and special moments of the old Greek cinema. A special should be also made to the filmmaker of Thessaloniki. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Special tributes of the Club were dedicated to Thessaloniki and to creators of this town. It should be mentioned at this point that from its first running period the Club had been asked by the town's producers to give place and time to them through the programs being announced. It is also worth mentioning that many of the movies of this town's producers, shown by the Club, were first screenings, as those people were not able to present their works, because of the special conditions of the cinema networks. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Argiris Bakirtzis and the "Winter swimmers" playing for the 3rd tribute of Greek Cinema... |
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| Presenting also a range of amateurish and experimental films helped new creators to show off their work and making the first steps in their carriers. That gave the opportunity to start a good collaboration with the International Short Film Festival in Drama. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Our club made a huge range of tributes with movies related to several topics like cinema history, Balkan, European and International cinema, women, media, music, but also the Labour-Day, the labour movement and the syndicalism, and a special tribute to the Greek and Turkish cinema. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Before ending the tribute section we should notice that the Club devoted tributes to social problems, disability, sense and sensibility and established the Anti-racism week of cinema. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| The awards of the 2nd festval of independent filmakers | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 3rd Cinema tribute for Greek Cinema, after his speech ...the famous footbal-player George Koudas... |
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| The media and the local and national authorities reacted positively to the Club from the first moment. Especially the media met with satisfaction the foundation of a cinema club by a social factor with the prestige and the history the T.U.C.T. This resulted in many municipalities and other groups, that wanted to go in for cinema matters, asking the Cinema Club for advice. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Finally, we can say that our club is the first and only cinema club created by a trade union center in the world. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Send Us an e-Mail: [email protected] |
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| Giorgos Gavrielidis www.geocities.com/gavrielg |
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