The Unknowing of Things
2026 · 5m
Animation, Documentary
Directed by
Aristotelis Maragkos
,
Aristotelis Maragkos
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The Unknowing of Things
Overview
The ten-minute Pragmatognossia plays with the letters of the Greek alphabet, through the voice of a small child who is coming out into the world for the first time. Old photographs, worn documents, faded seals, handwritten notes, tax registers, invoices, stamps, ... cracks in time but also little flames that keep the entire memory of the state alive, frame by frame".
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