Visits to E.Ch.Gonatas

Visits to E.Ch.Gonatas / Επισκέψεις στην Ε.Χ.Γονατά

(Documentary, Greece, 1998, 50’, C, Fr ST)

by Eva Stefani

Visits to E.Ch.Gonatas

Synopsis

A portrait of writer, translator, and hermit E.C Gonatas. This documentary was shot in his house for a year where he spent most of his time, surrounded by his twenty cats. It is an intimate portrait of one of the most important Greek surrealist writers who avoided publicity throughout his life. He never talks about his writing, but we get closer to him and his work through the way he lives his daily life; he looks after the garden and the cats while refecting, always with a sense of self-irony, on life and death.

Credits

Eva Stefani

Director

Film Author :

Eva Stefani
Eva Stefani

Eva Stefani is a Greek video artist and director. She studied Political Science in Athens, and then documentary filmmaking at the Ateliers Varan (Paris), at the Tisch School of the Arts (MA, New York University), and at the Film and Television School (London). She also obtained a doctorate in Ethnographic Cinema at Panteion University in Athens. She filmed a considerable number of short and experimental documentaries,  some of which won awards at Cinéma du Réel, the Thessaloniki Film Festival, and SEE Docs in Dubrovnik. She teaches theory and the history of cinema at the University of Athens and is a guest professor at the Freie Universität in Berlin. Days and Nights of Demetra K. is her first feature-length film.

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