[Greek Audio]
The spontaneous recitation of a poem one evening in 1954 at Pedion tou Areos park in Athens changes forever the life of a five-year-old child. He is transferred at once in the magical, for him, world of cinema, next to actors such as Vougiouklaki, Alexandrakis, Avlonitis, Vassiliadou. And how does life in the slums of Gyzi combine with the flashlight of the lens?
Narrator: Giannis Kalatzopoulos
Researcher: Anna Kladi
Podcast Creation: Fenia Chala
Sound Design: Iasonas Theofanou
Audio Editing: Andreas Thomas
Photo highlights: Christos Andropoulos
Istorima is the largest project for recording and preserving oral histories of Greece. More than 1,000 young researchers find narrators listen, collect and preserve stories of people from all over Greece: Stories of their hometowns, stories of love, stories that changed Greece or defined it, modern or old stories. Stories that are not recorded in the history books and that could easily be lost in time.
It was created by the journalist Sofia Papaioannou and the historian Katherine Fleming and is implemented with a founding grant from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF), as part of its initiative to Restart and Empower Youth (see more on www.snf.org). More than 20,000 stories are gradually being published in full on www.archive.istorima.org. Excerpts of the stories are published in the form of podcasts, videos, or written stories on www.istorima.org.