Marina Gioti
The Secret School (2009), Single channel video, 16mm film transferred to digital ,11 min
Greece, the early 70’s. A family visits the National Historical Museum. As they wander among the exhibits of the 1821 Revolution, one of the paintings comes to life.
‘Sabotaged’ version of a found propaganda film, produced during the Greek military junta in the 70s, supporting a largely debated fact -for many a national myth- related to the birth of the modern Greek nation and the construction of its ethnic identity.