A light emerges in the dark screen… An old gramophone recording starts…
Legendary Markos Vamvakaris grabs his bouzouki and unfolds his deep
feelings by improvising with sharp and rough notes… Aman! A sudden voice
in a dark corner… a desperate man is singing in depression…
A woman is singing her complains to her lover, two rough guys armed with
knives are mocking each other in rhythm and melody…

Ilias Markantonis, inspired by Rebetiko, the music expression of the
outcasts, builds a shadow puppet theatre performance of emotions where
poems and lyrics are transformed into moving shadows… Inspired by the
music that reflects the nostalgia of the 20th century in urban Greek
routine, he brings to life the emotions of the songs, through the old
popular art of shadow puppet theatre.

Puppet construction, performance and music arrangement:
Ilias Markantonis.

Duration: 45'

https://youtu.be/9ZPcJfk8Csk?si=hVoql72LdQJivQBK

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