At one of the many moments that open the eyes in the movie “Super Paradise”, Greek director Steve Kricris is a documentary image loving to the island of Mekonos, and Marily Tsopanelli, a MIME and Dance, who remembers the bohemian spirit, which caused the island on the island in the 1960 and 70s. “Most of my friends have lost their virginity in 1971,” explains Tsubanelli. Another interview topic that places it frankly: “a lot of sex.”
It will be precisely describing the documentary of Krikris as a lively ROM through the peak “place of a scandal”, as another described by the modern heads of the movie; In fact, the director, who spent the summer on Mykonos throughout his youth, carefully tracks the island’s journey from a poor fishing community during the Second World War through his golden age as the pocket of Al -Habi in the seventies, and continued to violates velvet per day.
“Super Paradise”, which was first shown in the new arrivals competition in Thessaloniki Intl. The Documentary Film Festival, is the first documentary of Krikris, which was shown on Deadpan, “The Waiter”, for the first time at the brother’s brother’s juvenile in 2018. based on an original idea by Paul Typaldos, who participates in the production of credits with Dafni Kalafati. He has a movie to make films.
In mykonos, Krikris, who was born in the United States, but moved to Greece around the age of five, a friend of the tongue of Francisco who invited him to the Gulf region; There he met the San Francisco Institute of Art, where he would continue to study the movie. “Everything started from Mykonos,” explains Krikris.
“Super Paradise” – whose name takes from one of the beaches of the iconic island – draws nearly a century in the development of the island, but it remains longing in the golden years when Krikris and his friends in Athens would occupy with a thousand empty beaches on the beaches.
“It was the age, it was music, it was the people, it was the place,” says Kricris. “Everyone was the same. There were no guards, there was no limousine. Everyone was mixing. You’ll see mykonian, you see the hippies, the goals and all the fashion designers who were sitting at the same table. Everyone was together.”
“Super Paradise” remembers a golden age on the Greek island of Mykonos.
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This sponsorship -free spirit, as the film shows, was barely present in a vacuum, partially appears as a challenging response to dark times. In the seventies of the last century, where mykonos was discovered by the beloved Hibers who landed on the map, the Greeks were elsewhere living under the iron fist of the military dictatorship. Homosexuality, although it is freedom – and celebration – on the island, was illegal. Elsewhere, the United States was fighting a bloody and illegal war in Vietnam, while military regimes were necessitating power throughout Latin America. Under that background, “The Lowns of Hope, Freedom and Self -Expression”, as one of the observations of the subject of the film.
By the time Krikris advanced to the small stage of adulthood, these bohemian morals began to fade. The dedicated interests that flow to meet the needs of the elites wandering in the world, while Mykonos was “increasingly the brand’s name”. “The director, who avoided the island for years for fear of” “no longer mine.”
In the end, Krikris and his team have returned to mykonos more than half of a four -year -old for making “Super Paradise”. Nearly 100 hours of materials have accumulated, including interviews with many men and women who were part of the swinging scene in the 1970s, as well as Super 8 and Krikris archival materials with the help of Canadian archiving product Judy Rosel. Besides Marios Kleftakis, he spent nearly two and a half years to bring “Super Paradise” on the screen.
The resulting film not only draws the great transformation of the mickenus, but also indicates that it is hardly strange, a victim of the global tourism forces that have reshaped it, such as Bali, Ibiza and Konkun. Quoted from Nietzsche, the Greek writer and philosopher Juergus Feltsos says: “Tourism is the most prominent”, and to do this, there is no lack of talking about their heads in “Super Paradise” to testify that mykonos today is “Supermarket”, “The Wall Street of Greece”, and “Decomposition of the past”.
Krikris, however, among those who still describe it as a “special place”. Or, as another local sage puts it: “It was an island of fishing. Now, the boats are greater. But life continues.”
Tsaloniki INTL. The Documentary Film Festival is run from March 6 to 16.
