The film Take a trip, directed by, Christos N. Karakasis has won an incredible 60 international awards so far and have more than 120 official entries and screenings at festivals around the world.
Focusing on London, accompanied by the texts of the Vasiliki Kappa, we explore the troubled past of the city during World War II, when the London skies were filled with smoke and the Luftwaffe’s iron birds scattered death on the streets.
Returning to the present time, between the train stations, the banks of the Thames, Westminster, Camden Town, the British Museum and Hyde Park, we join the fighters for an equal rights society, protesting against intolerance and racism and for better education, without which we are doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past
“I’ m travelling. I’ m leaving a city behind me for another city. I hope a different one. Why? I do not know. I suppose, someone else must be travelling to reach the city that I’m leaving. Maybe the journey takes place only inside us. Maybe the city itself is only inside us. What indeed is a city, rather than the way we see it?”
The British- Greek Film “Take a Trip” is an anti-racist look at mentality and fascism .
London is the city where the journey takes us. There are no moments of relaxation. The city leads us. It gives the rhythm. We resist the given relationship of time and the intensity of reality. We are present, without violating the space of the necessary vital distance. Our gaze changed. Our angles have changed. The camera became a guide and barometer.
I try to perceive the meaning. Inside me there is an imaginary room. I reside in it and secretly observe the world, like a writer. I’m on the street while I’m not. I feel that people are the same everywhere. I’ve come here to escape, yet suddenly people seem the same
The documentary is a composition of an inspiring poetic, philosophical text by the novelist and artist Vasiliki Kappa, with a reference to her art series “Invisible Cities”.
This Film settled a new creative framework through which painting, cinema, and writing came together and proceeded to a creative coupling with semantic extensions beyond the traditional way we perceive the limits of the arts.
The music, by Grigoris Giarelis, gives a dynamic tone to the narration.
Director of Photography: George Devon, Dionysios Dimas, Christos N. Karakasis
Music Composition: Gregory Giarelis
Assistant Director-Sound Record: Nikos Psaltakis
Production Assistant: Maria Kappa
Texts Narration: Vasiliki Kappa
Screenplay – Direction: Christos N. Karakasis
Production: ΚΟΥΙΝΤΑ Production- Tickets Company
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