Date and Time: 16/05/2021 (20:00-21:45)
Iakovos Panagopoulos
Producing-Screenwritting-Directing-Editing-Videography: Dr. Iakovos Panagopoulos Supervisors: Prof. Erik Knudsen Dr. Gary Bratchford Sound Design&Music Scoring: Thanos Bikakis Voice Over: Lina Petrianou Subtitles: Stavros Kozobolis Iralia Kotsakidou Archive Footage Used: Theo Angelopoulos Heirs Association Hellenic Army Television Service
The research documentary A Quest for Eternity (2020) focuses in four different elements of Angelopoulos’s style and provides new information using and analysing the data from semi-structured interviews. This research documentary is part of Dr. Iakovos Panagopoulos practice based Phd research in the University of Central Lancashire with the title: “Reshaping Contemporary Greek Cinema Through a Re-evaluation of the Historical and Political Perspective of Theo Angelopoulos's Work”(Panagopoulos, 2019).
Iakovos Panagopoulos
"Dr. Iakovos Panagopoulos is an award-winning Greek director and researcher, best known for his work Flickering Souls Set Alight (2019) and Allimonò (2020).
Iakovos’s pioneering work is a combination of practical filmmaking and academic research. His goal is to narrow the gap between the two. He is directing-writing films and academic research on Media Practice, Film Practice and Film Studies.
He is an active researcher, counting numerous international publications. He is an official researcher in StoryLab (Skills Training for Democratised Film Industries) and scientific collaborator in InArts (Interactive Arts Lab) of Ionian University.
At the moment Iakovos is teaching as an academic scholar in Audio Visual Arts department of Ionian University. He also started his post-doctoral research in Panteion University of Social and Political Science with Prof. Seferiadis. The title of his research is: “Suspended spaces of memory: Heterotopic historical narratives and contentious politics in contemporary cinematic practice”."
