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The Grand Tour - A film In-Debt(ed)

Grand Tour is inspired on the writings of 18th century European travellers to Greece. Through accounts of these travellers, we can evaluate from a post-colonial perspective the developments that occurred in Greek society as a product of the Greek revolution in 1821. These developments led to successive accumulation of debt, defaults, and growing external dependence. The subheading of the title of the film refers to the classical debt of the modern western world to the ancient Greek culture and the accumulated financial debt of Greece to Europe and suggests an ambivalent association between these two distinct debts.

  • Fotios Begklis
    Director
  • Fotios Begklis
    Writer
  • Fotios Begklis
    Producer
  • Sally-Pomme Clayton
    Key Cast
  • Project Type:
    Documentary, Experimental, Short, Web / New Media
  • Runtime:
    30 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    January 10, 2021
  • Production Budget:
    10,000 GBP
  • Country of Origin:
    Greece
  • Country of Filming:
    Greece
  • Language:
    English, Modern Greek (1453-)
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital video
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Thessaloniki Documentary Festival
    Thessaloniki
    Greece
    June 12, 2021
  • Kalamata International Short Documentary Festival
    Kalamata
    Greece
    October 15, 2022
Distribution Information
  • Fotios Begklis
    Sales Agent
    Country: United Kingdom
    Rights: All Rights
Director Biography - Fotios Begklis

My name is Fotis Begklis and I am a non-fiction filmmaker. I have developed a body of creative work, making short documentaries, experimental and non-fiction films. In my work, I am primarily interested in cinema’s ability to evoke thinking and memory and the power of film montage. My films explore the cracks and in-between spaces of non-fiction and experimental filmmaking as critical and creative media practices and the conditions for initiating change in social and political transnational context. I have worked with many artists, corporate brands, musicians and local communities and collaborated on innovative educational, historical and artistic projects. I have worked with various underrepresented groups and voices promoting social responsibility and ethical filmmaking through non-fiction film production practices.

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Director Statement

Grand Tour is hybrid film. It is an online interactive experimental documentary and a standalone 30 mins long offline documentary. Grand Tour as a film draws on the experimental and essayistic documentary traditions and combines archival materials, video, collages, animation and motions graphics. The current interactive form of the film can be accessed online here: www.thegrandtourfilm.uk