BIRTHPLACE (2004) / human scale
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- Опубліковано 3 жов 2014
- BIRTHPLACE / the Opening Ceremony of the Athens 2004 Olympic Games
conceived, visualised and directed by DIMITRIS PAPAIOANNOU
birthplace2004.com
ten years on
a blog celebrating our memories of the ceremony
with new documentary material by ATHINA RACHEL TSANGARI
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BIRTHPLACE (2004) / fragments
documentary video by ATHINA RACHEL TSANGARI
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BIRTHPLACE / creative team
conceived, visualised and directed by DIMITRIS PAPAIOANNOU
co-creation, music concept creator YORGOS KOUMENDAKIS
set designer LILI PEZANOU
lighting designer & director ELEFTHERIA DEKO
choreographer ANGELIKI STELLATOU
costume designer SOPHIA KOKOSALAKI
video director & producer ATHINA RACHEL TSANGARI
ceremonies texts LINA NIKOLAKOPOULOU
pyrotechnic design CHRISTOPHE BERTHONNEAU
clepsydra segment-visual concept & direction ANGELOS MENDIS
coordinator of the creative-associate director TINA PAPANIKOLAOU
full credits here: birthplace2004.com/credits
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BIRTHPLACE / documentary videos
directed and produced by ATHINA RACHEL TSANGARI (haosfilm.com)
chief editor MATT JOHNSON
video ATHINA RACHEL TSANGARI, ISAAC MATHES, MARGARITA MANDA, ATHENS 2004 AUDIOVISUAL ARCHIVE, JACK MORTON WORLDWIDE
editing SANDRINE CHEYROL, MARINA GIOTI, MARIA HATZAKOU
ceremony tv broadcast ATHENS OLYMPIC BROADCASTING
This documentary video was first presented at the exhibition “A Greek Ceremony: Exhibition of Costumes and Objects from the Opening Ceremony of the Athens 2004 Olympic Games” at the Beijing Capital Museum, between 20 May and 6 July 2008, as part of the Cultural Year of Greece in China. The exhibition, curated and designed by Lili Pezanou, was then transferred to the National Glyptotheque in Athens, Greece between 8 and 20 December 2009.
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Thank you so much for the Birthplace! Whoever uploaded this thank you. Its like a gift that i was waiting so many years to see...
This is for apocalypse!
I just love it! Since I saw the open ceremony on my tv! I loved all the concept. What kind of material did they use in their costumes? They are awsome!
Amazing!!!!
amazing
Extremely interesting
But this is nothing more than take a few corridors of exhibits in a museum, OK, injecting SOME movement . . . and then putting it on wheels. Kinda like the GE Carousel of Progress in the old DIsneyland -- a parade of audio-animatronic figures on wheels . . . Huh??
And you think it's easy? This is not making a montage with 50 people and making it look like a tourist attraction. Just imagine the impressive scale of the opening ceremony with 4,000 performers on stage grouped in blocks, each with a different costume and choreography. Not to mention the complex system of cables to float the gigantic Cycladic head figures over the field and the water-covered ground. This was the most expensive opening ceremony in history and also the most beautiful. So much so that no other olympic city has been able to emulate its scale.
@@frankkoehlerseg I never said it wasn't easy. Yeah, I know -- with that Cycladic head, it was probably the most ambitiously complex stunt ever performed for an Oly OC. But so what? That's not how they did it in ancient Greece. It was a breath0taking piece of theatre -- and I know it was rehearsed in secret at a lake outside Harrogate, UK. But Beijing 2008 showed more of where its budget went -- not the $35 million to dig that hole at the stadium or the nearly $45 million that went to JMWorldwide. The regular viewer never saw that. In terms of overall Cermeonies buget, my research shows that Baku 2015 was the most expensive (having only 2 Ceremonies to spend for); for Opening, just on sets and costumes, it's Beijing 2008. As for your claim that no other Olympic City has been able to emulate its scale, well, China did but then again because China wants to prove something. But no other western host city would be so foolish as to spend what a small host country like Greece did. My main criticism of Athens 2004 Opening is that it was quite JOYLESS. Where was all the joy to commemorate the idea of the Games finally coming back to the land of their birth after 108 years? I didn't see it until the Closing--but then again, that was to celebrate a smalltown Greek wedding . . . not the return of the Olympic Games.
@@mylesgarcia4625 Joyless, Sad, boring? Oh my God! Every country has a unique, different history, which cannot be compared to any other. These multidinary events are the best window to show their history and to educate the ignorant. Athens 2004 was an allegory of their wonderful mythology. The "Clepsydra" segment represented through a dreamlike journey the whole Greek history from the Minoan civilisation to the Karagioziz shadow theatre. Another thing to note is the concept proposed by the director of ceremonies. Papaioannou conceived the show as a phantasmagorical and romantic revue of Greece and for so many representations of sculptures, friezes, monuments and mythological beings, the costumes, the music, the lights, the decoration of the stadium field was the best decision in the world. It doesn't all have to be hustle and bustle and extravagant choreography like the misconception sold by the Chinese.
Athens 2004 cost $110 million.
Beijing 2008 $100 million
Sochi 2014 $100 million
@@frankkoehlerseg Source? Plus, higher $$ signs don't necessarily mean better quality. As I said, much of Athens' budget went to things the ordinary spectator does not see -- like prepping the stadium for all those technological tricks-- at least $35 million; and the $45 million talent fees. For Beijing and Sochi, even if your claim (so conveniently rounded off) is true, you could SEE where the millions went to. BTW, Sochi's renovations to Fisht stadium, to fulfill George Tsypin's scenario was, cost-wise, nearly on the scale of what Athens spent to dig the big hole (not used ever since) and set up all that rigging for the Cycladic head trick. Also, did anybody ever buy the Klepsydra platforms which went on sale on eBay? LOL!!