This short documentary film explores α traditional spiritual phenomenon that has undergone a lot of changes the last years in Greece, in terms of belief and practice. The “evil eye” and all the myths and stories around it can be approached and perceived through many different perspectives.
Many intriguing questions about different aspects of human interaction and institutions in the Greek Culture and Society, such as industry, religion, family, medicine and much more, arouse from the narratives of people we interviewed about that folklore topic. Considered as a superstition by most of them, the “evil eye“ still remains a deep part of the Greek Culture and brings up admiration and fear in their narrations about the “unknown” – even in the young generations.
Marion Reichstaler
Marion studied Social Work at the University for Applied Science in Feldkirchen, Carinthia, where she was working with young people and Youth at Risk in India, Germany and Austria. After, she continued her Master ́s in Social- and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Vienna, where she was doing her first Ethnografic Filmmaking expierences – “How we Work” (2018) / “Loneliness in the City” (Ethnocineca Vienna 2019). At the moment she is doing her exchange year at the University of Bern, Switzerland, where she finally found her connection and deep joy to the subject of Visual Anthropology and Ethnografic Filmmaking.
She is always looking for the amazing and beautiful within.
Mark Lindenberg
Mark Lindenberg is a filmmaker and visual ethnographer interested in making films that make the audience have a feeling of being there, stepping into a world unknown. He graduated as a cinematographer at the AHK – Filmacademy Amsterdam and combines his skills with his master study Visual Ethnography at Leiden University to make the ‘strange’ become understandable and familiar.
Nektaria Kapsala
Nektaria Kapsala finished her studies in Psychology at the University of Crete in Rethymnon during which she came in first contact with research and its intriguing means and processes. Visual Ethnography as one of them for interacting with the people around and exploring research interests is a new but really interesting way for her to continue wandering around the topics of body, different types of embodimentamong different ages and identities and how they are being perceived among different cultures, institutions and societies.