The Greek Film Critics Association or Pan-Hellenic Film Critics Association (PEKK) (Greek: Πανελλήνια Ένωση Κριτικών Κινηματογράφου, ΠΕΚΚ) was founded in 1976. The first members included the Greek film critics Nino Fenek Mikelidis, Vasilis Rafailidis, Yannis Bakogiannopoulos and others. Since 1977, the association belongs to International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI).[1]
Nearly every year, the PEKK gives out awards during Thessaloniki International Film Festival. The Greek Film Critics Association Awards is one of the most important awards for the Greek cinema. The PEKK gives also out award during Short Film Festival in Drama, Greece.
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Plato and Aristotle (Introduction to Greek Philosophy)
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City States: A Lecture by Michael Sorkin - Bengal Institute
Transcription
Hey there, students! In this lecture, I'm going to talk to you a little bit about Plato and Aristotle. There are some of you who have some questions, such as my new friend, Wilhelm, who asked me if I could do something on Greek philosophy explaining Plato and Aristotle. Wilhelm's my newest friend - newest SUBSCRIBER! If you'd like to be my friend, it's just as easy as *snaps* subscribing. So, if we're thinking about Plato and Aristotle - two of the big three of Greek philosophy - keep in mind we've got SPA: Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle. Each one of them taught the other. So, Plato was Socrates' student - Socrates would have never said that he was his teacher - but Plato was his student. And Aristotle was Plato's student. Now, if we want to contrast Plato and Aristotle, it's just as easy as looking at Raphael's classic painting, The School of Athens, which in my opinion is one of the most beautiful pieces of art ever produced during the Renaissance. Of course, there's also Botticelli's Birth of Venus, but that's a whole other story! As far as philosophy goes, you can see in the middle, there is Plato, who is modeled after Leonardo da Vinci. And Plato is walking beside his student, Aristotle, and he is pointing up. Plato is the Idealist, and that goes into all of his philosophy, whether it is the ideal state, the ideal of virtue, that pretty much the only thing real to Plato was an idea - that this world is kind of a reflection of the real world of ideas. So Plato's pointing up. Now, notice that Aristotle, in this painting, is kind of putting his hand over the ground. Aristotle is a Realist. While Plato says the only thing that is real is an idea and in order to understand truth you need to understand ideas, Aristotle says, "Wait a minute... The only thing that's real is what's real - is what is. This physical world that we live in is a real place. Now, that doesn't seem incredibly revolutionary to most of you listening, but for Aristotle, who had been taught by Plato, it was. To come to the realization that we live in an actual real place... Yeah. Plato and Aristotle each produced a work of political philosophy. Plato produced the Republic and Aristotle produced the Politics. Now, the Republic is focused on the "Ideal State." How could we build the perfect society? So, Plato says, well, first we get rid of the family and we get rid of private property because, according to Plato, what's really wrong with our society is the way we get into "mine" and "not mine." That's all of our arguing. "That's mine!" "No, that's mine!" "That's not mine!" and all of that. If we got rid of private property, there'd be one less thing to argue about. And while we're at that, what about when somebody says, "That's my kid," "That's your kid," or "My daddy can whip your daddy" or something like that? Let's just get rid of the family, while we're at it! Then, let's get rid of gender roles, of any sort of conventions that we have in our society and this would create an ideal state. And in this, Plato is hoping to transcend human selfishness. He sees selfishness as the problem, that we need to build a state that is cohesive - a state full of people that don't argue and fight with each other. So, the goal here is social unity. Now, this all may sound like a good idea to some people, but then again, how many of you would really want to live in a society where there are no families, where there's no private property? I don't know. It doesn't sound like a place where I'd want to live. A lot of my students say, "Oh, well that would be fine," and I say, "Well, what if they were going to take away your X Box?" "Oh, no, no! Not my X Box!" The thing is that "mine" is something that is basic in our nature, so Aristotle, being concerned with what's real, what's here, what actually is, he says, "Why would we want to transcend human selfishness?" Human selfishness is part of who we are. And so, Aristotle is thinking about designing a government - designing a society - that acknowledges human selfishness and mitigates it. When he looks at Plato's ideal state, he thinks, "Really, come on! Who really wants to live there?" For example, Aristotle says, who would really care for kids if they didn't belong to anybody? If I heard that my daughter had been hurt - was in the hospital - I would drop whatever I was doing and I would go and tend to my daughter. What if I hear that somebody else's daughter or some random kid was in the hospital? Well, that's sad, but that child is not mine. Aristotle feels like if we get rid of private property, if we get rid of the family, then we'd just neglect everything because a lot of times, human selfishness works in our favor. Human selfishness is why we eat. It is why we survive. Keep in mind that if it were a contest between you or me, it would either be me or... I would be dead, depending on how big you are. So, Aristotle is thinking about how do we create a WORKING government, acknowledging human selfishness. And what he comes up with is the idea not of the ideal state, but of a state that WORKS. And he calls this polity, a state that is balanced, a state where neither the rich nor the poor can predominate, a state in which we are really forced to work together, but at the same time we maintain private property and the family because that's who we are. Aristotle says that, "I would rather be someone's cousin in the real sense than be someone's son by Plato's standards," where everybody's everybody's son or something like that. What does that mean??? So, in summary, this really comes down to Raphael's painting and Plato pointing up at the ideal and Aristotle trying to remind his teacher, "Hey... Come back down. We live in a real world, here." Hopefully, that will get you started. Of course, I'd invite you to read Plato's Republic, Aristotle's Politics, and all of that good stuff, but this will get you somewhere.
Best Greek Films of all time
The members of PEKK have selected their list of the Best Greek Films of all time on three occasions: initially in 1986, for the 10th anniversary of PEKK;[2] again in 2006, for the 30th anniversary of PEKK;[2] and for a third time in 2016, for the 40th anniversary of PEKK.[3]
1986 selection
Place | Movie | Year | original title | Director |
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1. | Evdokia | 1971 | Ευδοκία | Alexis Damianos |
2. | The Ogre of Athens (a.k.a. The Dragon) | 1956 | Ο Δράκος | Nikos Koundouros |
3. | The Reconstruction | 1970 | Αναπαράσταση | Theo Angelopoulos |
4. | The Travelling Players | 1975 | Ο θίασος | Theo Angelopoulos |
5. | The Counterfeit Coin | 1955 | Η κάλπικη λίρα | Giorgos Tzavellas |
– | The Color of Iris | 1974 | Τα Χρώματα της Ίριδος | Nikos Panagiotopoulos |
7. | Karkalou | 1984 | Καρκαλού | Stavros Tornes |
– | The Matchmaking of Anna | 1972 | Το Προξενιό της Άννας | Pantelis Voulgaris |
9. | Balamos | 1982 | Μπαλαμός | Stavros Tornes |
– | Stella | 1955 | Στέλλα | Michael Cacoyannis |
2006 selection
Place | Movie | Year | original title | Director |
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1. | The Ogre of Athens (a.k.a. The Dragon) | 1956 | Ο Δράκος | Nikos Koundouros |
2. | Evdokia | 1971 | Ευδοκία | Alexis Damianos |
– | The Travelling Players | 1975 | Ο θίασος | Theo Angelopoulos |
4. | Stella | 1955 | Στέλλα | Michael Cacoyannis |
5. | The Counterfeit Coin | 1955 | Η κάλπικη λίρα | Giorgos Tzavellas |
6. | The Reconstruction | 1970 | Αναπαράσταση | Theo Angelopoulos |
– | Rembetiko | 1983 | Ρεμπέτικο | Costas Ferris |
– | The Photograph | 1986 | Η φωτογραφία | Nikos Papatakis |
9. | Karkalou | 1984 | Καρκαλού | Stavros Tornes |
10. | Sweet Bunch | 1983 | Γλυκιά Συμμορία | Nikos Nikolaidis |
– | The Spring Gathering | 1999 | Η εαρινή σύναξις των αγροφυλάκων | Dimos Avdeliodis |
2016 selection
Place | Movie | Year | original title | Director |
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1. | The Travelling Players | 1975 | Ο θίασος | Theo Angelopoulos |
2. | Sweet Bunch | 1983 | Γλυκιά Συμμορία | Nikos Nikolaidis |
3. | The Photograph | 1986 | Η φωτογραφία | Nikos Papatakis |
4. | Rembetiko | 1983 | Ρεμπέτικο | Costas Ferris |
5. | Dogtooth | 2009 | Κυνόδοντας | Yorgos Lanthimos |
6. | The Opposite (a.k.a. Foolish Love) | 1981 | Οι απέναντι | Giorgos Panousopoulos |
7. | Karkalou | 1984 | Καρκαλού | Stavros Tornes |
8. | Ulysses' Gaze | 1995 | Το βλέμμα του Οδυσσέα | Theo Angelopoulos |
9. | Edge of Night | 2000 | Αυτή η νύχτα μένει | Nikos Panagiotopoulos |
10. | The Spring Gathering | 1999 | Η εαρινή σύναξις των αγροφυλάκων | Dimos Avdeliodis |
See also
References
- ^ "Ίδρυση" (in Greek). Πανελλήνια Ένωση Κριτικών Κινηματογράφου. Archived from the original on 21 March 2016. Retrieved 4 January 2014.
- ^ a b "Ψηφοφορία Πανελλήνιας Ένωσης Κριτικών Κινηματογράφου 2006 | Ψηφοφορία Πανελλήνιας Ένωσης Κριτικών Κινηματογράφου 1986" [Vote of the Pan-Hellenic Film Critics Association 2006 | Vote of the Pan-Hellenic Film Critics Association 1986]. Pan-Hellenic Film Critics Association (in Greek). March 2007. Archived from the original on 21 March 2016. Retrieved 4 January 2014.
- ^ "Ψηφοφορία Πανελλήνιας Ένωσης Κριτικών Κινηματογράφο 2016 10 + 10 καλύτερες ταινίες του Ελληνικού & Ευρωπαϊκού Κινηματογράφου (1975-2015) 40 Χρόνια Πανελλήνια Ένωση Κριτικών Κινηματογράφου" [Vote of the Panhellenic Union of Film Critics 2016 10 + 10 best films of Greek & European Cinema (1975-2015) 40 Years Panhellenic Union of Film Critics]. Pan-Hellenic Film Critics Association (in Greek). Archived from the original on 2019-11-30. Retrieved 2022-01-06.
External links
- Πανελλήνια Ένωση Κριτικών Κινηματογράφου – Official webpage