Visits to E.Ch.Gonatas / Επισκέψεις στην Ε.Χ.Γονατά
(Documentary, Greece, 1998, 50’, C, Fr ST)
by Eva Stefani

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.