The Fall of Attica

Video by Sophie Knittel

Presented: Jan 2020
Related to book: THE FIRST DEATH

Greece, the cradle of European civilisation and democracy, collapses slowly. Its economy and the austerity measures demanded by the European Union pushes the country to the edge of the abyss. The country is sinking, the children of the mythological gods are fading.

Photographies: SOPHIE KNITTEL 
Editing & animation ALEXANDRE LIEBERT
Voice-over KOSTADIS MIZARAS
Sound creation BENJAMIN CHAVAL & ALEXANDRE LIEBERT

TEXTS
The First Death, extract / DIMITRIS LYACOS
Hymn 28 to Athena / ANON
Ion, extract / A. R. HOPE MONCRIEFF

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