Onassis Foundation honours Cavafy through film 162 years on from his birth

The beingness and work of C.P. Cavafy served arsenic inspiration for 7 abbreviated films and a documentary aimed astatine celebrating the legendary Greek poet.

The films premiered connected the Onassis Channel connected YouTube and Onassis.org connected 29 April, the day successful which helium was calved 162 years agone (also the aforesaid day helium died 92 years ago).

A postulation of modern creators honoured his bequest done film, each of which was commissioned by the Onassis Foundation.

One of the works is simply a documentary titled “Eternal Desires: The world of Cavafy, from Alexandria to New York”, which follows the travel of the writer done his idiosyncratic archives and tells a story of love, nonaccomplishment and longing.

It besides examines however Cavafy’s work remains applicable and universal adjacent today, giving it a timeless quality.

In summation to the documentary, there is besides a bid of abbreviated films marque up a conception titled “Visual Cavafy” which presents the cinematic powerfulness of Cavafy’s language.

The films bespeak the vitality and powerfulness of the Cavafy language, arsenic explored by a fig of artists.

The conception includes films by directors similar Evi Kalogiropoulou (“Alexandria”), Elena Park (“Makrya”, “Sea of Morning”, “Ithaca”, “Waiting for the Barbarians”, “The Steps”), Christos Sarris (“Walls”) successful collaboration with prisoners successful prisons successful Greece, arsenic well arsenic artists Jad Abumrad and Mac Premo (“Voices”).