Scarecrow
Director Vasili Economu
Countries Greece
Duration 28 min
Synopsis
Scarecrow “Mountainous GR and its villages comprise one of the country’s landscapes still largely unexplored…” A travel in time and place set on the few remaining scarecrows to be found scattered in the rural landscape of the region of Western Macedonia. A storyline that is unfolding along the words of locals, now coping with declining agricultural activities. A glimpse into the Greek countryside and what is swiftly becoming recent memory. Scarecrows, agents of a different era, represent the focal elements in the ongoing battle between people and birds. Personal narratives give flesh and bones in those often elaborate assemblages that have served not only as a means of imposition of fear, but also as a inexhaustible source of metaphysical fables and superstitions.
Scarecrow “Mountainous GR and its villages comprise one of the country’s landscapes still largely unexplored…” A travel in time and place set on the few remaining scarecrows to be found scattered in the rural landscape of the region of Western Macedonia. A storyline that is unfolding along the words of locals, now coping with declining agricultural activities. A glimpse into the Greek countryside and what is swiftly becoming recent memory. Scarecrows, agents of a different era, represent the focal elements in the ongoing battle between people and birds. Personal narratives give flesh and bones in those often elaborate assemblages that have served not only as a means of imposition of fear, but also as a inexhaustible source of metaphysical fables and superstitions.