The internationally renowned, multi-awarded composer, Dimitris Katis surprises us again by creating a film that is a hymn to Greek culture, a film that is an ambassador of the Greek spirit throughout the length and breadth of the earth.
The 139-minute feature film, BROCKEN CIRCLE is an epic science fiction drama set in Ancient Greece during the Mycenaean Era.
The film is an elegiac approach with didactic characteristics, that conveys philosophical ideas from the past to the present and future with abundant lyricism and archaic compositions.
The genius of the creator is that he managed to combine love with the innermost wandering in the steep ravines of the mind and the soul and to culminate the existential search on a background of mystagogue symposia.
He borrows elements from ancient Greek tragedy and uploads the power of the gaze and movement to an imaginary existential dialogue between his heroes.
His ingenuity creates a cultural bridge between the past and the future and establishes improvisation as an ideological technique, which aims to overcome the limits of entertainment and create soulful meanings, to create short-term as well as long-term reflection on the deepest human quests.
With mastery, he manages to alternate historical references and update them in the dimension of present and future time, penetrating the metaphysicality of man, creating a surreal tableau of images from aspects of life and imagination.
The whole effort results in the autonomy of man, along with the development of his collective consciousness, in any world, in any culture, in any limitless borders, inside or outside the earth.
The Greek topography is simply a tool in the hands of the creator to open the context of morality to a global dimension, thus declaring his active concern for the expropriation of empathy.
Messages full of ideological and philosophical weight that catapult the film from a cultural event to an intellectual one.
Panagiota Bleta - Writer, Thinker.
