2BlackBox's video: BIRTHPLACE 2004 allegory

BIRTHPLACE / the Opening Ceremony of the Athens 2004 Olympic Games conceived, visualised and directed by DIMITRIS PAPAIOANNOU birthplace2004.com ten years on a blog celebrating our memories of the ceremony with new documentary material by ATHINA RACHEL TSANGARI — BIRTHPLACE (2004) / allegory ceremony extract from the Allegory segment three-screen video directed by ATHINA RACHEL TSANGARI — BIRTHPLACE / creative team conceived, visualised and directed by DIMITRIS PAPAIOANNOU co-creation, music concept creator YORGOS KOUMENDAKIS set designer LILI PEZANOU lighting designer & director ELEFTHERIA DEKO choreographer ANGELIKI STELLATOU costume designer SOPHIA KOKOSALAKI video director & producer ATHINA RACHEL TSANGARI ceremonies texts LINA NIKOLAKOPOULOU pyrotechnic design CHRISTOPHE BERTHONNEAU clepsydra segment—visual concept & direction ANGELOS MENDIS coordinator of the creative—associate director TINA PAPANIKOLAOU full credits here: birthplace2004.com/credits — BIRTHPLACE / documentary videos directed and produced by ATHINA RACHEL TSANGARI (haosfilm.com) chief editor MATT JOHNSON video ATHINA RACHEL TSANGARI, ISAAC MATHES, MARGARITA MANDA, ATHENS 2004 AUDIOVISUAL ARCHIVE, JACK MORTON WORLDWIDE editing SANDRINE CHEYROL, MARINA GIOTI, MARIA HATZAKOU ceremony tv broadcast ATHENS OLYMPIC BROADCASTING This documentary video was first presented at the exhibition “A Greek Ceremony: Exhibition of Costumes and Objects from the Opening Ceremony of the Athens 2004 Olympic Games” at the Beijing Capital Museum, between 20 May and 6 July 2008, as part of the Cultural Year of Greece in China. The exhibition, curated and designed by Lili Pezanou, was then transferred to the National Glyptotheque in Athens, Greece between 8 and 20 December 2009. — dimitrispapaioannou.com birthplace2004.com cavafy13.com fb.com/papaioannou.page twitter.com/papaioannou_d vimeo.com/papaioannou