And we will cease to speak of any other saw, whatever use it may have to man, for whomever and however many gods made it for, and we will try to pay proper homage to the Aegean.
Ailios Aristedes 2nd Century AD


A film travel based on texts of travel writers and poets from all over the world who visited and wrote about the archipelago in the last centuries
Images from most Aegean islands and the sea routes that bind them.
In these texts, poems and travel notes from the travel literature books of most writers who visited the Aegean in many different periods in time and felt the need to convey their emotions inspired by the archipelago we see a very vivid description of the very same emotions that this sea still offers to the visitor.
These texts are revealing in the sense that apart from their literature value they form a complexity of impressions felt by travellers in the archipelago over the centuries Different opinions, meanings and textual forms blend into a common experience of the archipelago as it is being performed in several languages.
A way to get to know the archipelago for the young traveller a way to appreciate and discover more for the older traveller who will visit again some of the locations and look at them in a possibly different spirit.

A kind of new map a trusting whisper of well kept secrets as being shared by the people who love to travel and discover. With the trusting signatures of writers that we have all read or heard about this peculiar guide becomes an interesting and revealing guide like an experiences companion to the traveller

This is also an input to the cultural –literature heritage that this sea, the landscapes and its people have initiated something that can become an valuable tool of knowledge a unique preservation of vivid memory as described in these simple and yet so alive texts and finally an insight to the world of the archipelago through the spirit and the routes travelled by some of the most important European thinkers and writers some of them have been instrumental in shaping cultural values in Europe for the last centuries.

Their inspiration in these texts derives exactly form the rich cultural and natural landscape of the Mediterranean and this is something the film will show in the best possible coexistence of literature beauty with the beauty of nature and culture in the archipelago.

Travel literature is special Description plays and must play the main part. Description of the landscape in its stillness imposed by the dominance of sight .The issue is however to balance this description with the constant movement of the traveller, to transform the trip into an adventure.
To enhance the images and thus attract the interest of the viewer with the parallel presence of the narration and the transformation of the actual time and space into a unique experience.
«I speak for what I saw» claim the writers But what does the passing traveller see? The accidental complements the necessary.

The restriction of the different points of view are inevitable. A person travelling with a boat, on the back of a horse or walking glances around him in a hurry as he scribbles notes in his diary. His sight is always personal and thus incorporates the sight and imagination of his reader of the viewer.
A composition οf images original and borrowed important however for both being original and repetitive.

Texts by international writers are blended into a common narrative text in some case narrated in the original language it was written. In rare occasions texts also appear in their textual form dissolved with pictures from the Aegean.