CHIOS
Colour short film about Chios, Oinousses, and Psara, produced by the Greek National Tourism Organisation (GNTO), with narration in Greek. The camera tours traditional settlements, fortified castles, monasteries, and coastlines, capturing everyday life and the islands’ historic maritime tradition. The film focuses on the complete process of mastic production, ceramic workshops, and the agricultural and fishing activities of the inhabitants. At the same time, it presents natural landscapes with orchards, meadows, and windmills, local delicacies, traditional dances, and scenes from contemporary nightlife entertainment.
Item type:
Audio Visual
Date:
n.d.
Subject:
rural life, Aegean Sea, seashores, windmills, blooming landscapes, Ancient Ionia, pebbles, Byzantium, donkeys, Genoese, Genoese architecture, olive grove, Greek islands, Greek War of Independence of 1821, Greek cuisine, Greek seafaring tradition, Greek dances, merchant ships, mastic processing, art workshops, sunset, volcanic stone, sea, marine life, seafood, Thucydides, Ionia, Kanaris, ship, castle towns, goats, traditional café, ceramics, folk tradition, lemon blossoms, port, port, flowers, Chios mastic, mastic trees, medieval castles, Mediterranean landscape, monasteries, bouzouki, myths, naval battles, maritime tradition, sailors, shipping, insular Greece, discotheque, nightlife and entertainment, chapels, Oinousses, Homeric tradition, Homer, festival, traditional professions, traditional products, traditional architecture, coastal settlements, beaches, orchards, pine trees, cultural heritage, orange blossoms, alleyway, mastic harvesting, tavernas, local products, tourism, nature, Chios, Psara, fishermen, Destruction of Psara
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