A journey into the poetry and thought of George Seferis. The wanderings of a tireless voyager in places, texts, music, films, people, successive layers of experience that accumulate on a rich foundation of significant and insignificant things before they are translated into this other language, Poetry. A wordsmith, a sworn enemy of high-sounding rhetoric forms and emotional exploitation, a lover of work and austerity, an indefatigable literary craftsman. «By hacking ourselves, that’s how we write», words of Seferis that demonstrate vividly the frequently long and extraordinarily painful Odyssey of creation. The poet received the Nobel prize for literature in 1963.
Cast: Dimitris Katalifos
Production date: 2001
Genre: Documentary
Language: Greek
Subtitles: -
Distribution: Periplus
Year published: 2001