2006 ABOUT THE WEAPONS (Short Film 35 mm14 min) Fiction
The Poet and his Orchestrator improvise the Ajax Myth played in Ancient Hellenic in Prosody

About the Weapons
Producer Panteleakis George 15 min Short Film

 

The film is actually narrating the story of the Hero''Ajax", that driven mad by his losing of the contest for who is the greatest warrior by Ulysses, after being cheated from the Kings Atreas's sons who stole his votes, decides in the middle of the night to take revenge and he would have done so if he was not blinded by Goddess Athena and instead of them he slaughters a heard of sheep, shaming him self forever. The dialogues are in Ancient Greek taken from the Tragedy" Ajax " by Sophocles and the sound is created by the Method described in Aristotle'About Poetry. At the same time the movie is narrating through the soul of the Oracle displaying how in Trance the Poet and his Actors by improvising they derived in their plays.
In Aristotle’s “About Poetry” is described how in a “ Manic State ” the poet who in early days was playing their plays would create their characters. Also it is mentioned that in all truth the poet would also write according to the Dancing and Acting abilities of his Actors at Hand.
In this attempt we watch the story up to the time of the slaughtering of the sheep and the poet and his group while improvising the Myth and the Events

 

Screenplay
Director
Music
Sound design
Editing
Post Production.....................George Panteleakis
Director Photography...........Nektarios Souldatos
Cast
Ajax, Oracle...........................George Panteleakis
Peltastis(Soldier),Priest.........Takis Vogopoulos
Tekmissa, Priestess................Evangeli Fili
Beeing......................................Katerina Tolia