Ekpombi (1968)
Directed by
Theo Angelopoulos
Also Known As:
Broadcast (International: English title)
Country: Greece
Language: Greek? Unknown, I heard it's unlike greek yet...
Length: 21 min
Color: Black and White
imdb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0205905/
Seances: http://www.seances.org/fr/film.asp?id=10721
Greece, the inexhaustible homeland, is not only a geographical site for Angelopoulos. It is the incarnation of his spiritual anxieties and searchings and, by extension, his artistic expression. The Greece of today and the Greece of yesterday melt into a constant present in the same way that various cultural elements find a form of expression through his pioneering techniques. With his first effort, The Broadcast, he rediscovered in the lively atmosphere of Athens the "cinema-direct" he had learnt so well in Paris.
The "long pauses", a characteristic that dates back to The Broadcast, developed into a stylistic rule that peaked in terms of Angelopoulos's aesthetic sense in 1975's The Travelling Players. In this film, with transportation and mythology as vehicles, Angelopoulos made a journey into the recent history of Greece, where his suggestive narrative extends to the politically and socially troubled 70s. The technical and structural characteristics of the work, such as the use of sequence-scenes, the theatrical cutting of his scenes, or the theory of Brechtian distancing, are the elements which allow him to interpret cinematic realism on new terms, to "invent" a cinematic style and to formulate a new trend in creating a spectacle.
Angelopoulos's student short film in 1968, won the golden award of 1968 international student film festival.
Note: This is from my dvdboxs of Angelopoulos films collection, japanese edition, so sorry for no english subtitles, but I've converted chinese subs into srt format so you can easily use your translator soft to make an auto-english sub.
whatever, it's only 108 sentences, I might do a sub by manual, but for now I have no time you need waiting...
Theo.Angelopoulos.-.Ekpombi.-.Broadcast.(1968).JP+CN.subs.rar 
Theo.Angelopoulos's.student.film.-.Ekpombi.-.Broadcast.(1968).-(auess).avi 
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