ABSTRACT
The aim of this short article is to relate my own experience of filming in Europe, in a Greek mountain village working simultaneously as anthropologist and filmmaker. The problem that I have studied for ten years is village desertion as a consequence of migrations, from the point of view of the village, gathering all possible data, observing year after year and making diversified films.
The article is an attempt to communicate through reflections and anecdotes the making, in 1979, of my first Greek film on Greece, “Everyday is not a Feast Day”, in which the “hero” had to be the whole village. I tried to talk about relationships with villagers, and technicians but also about film structure itself, choices, treatment of words, cultural translation. The conclusion is an attempt to point out the problems that we’ll have to discuss and solve in the future and that I discovered through my new collaboration with the National Film and Television School (Beaconsfield, G.B.).
