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Dialogue: 0,0:00:02.34,0:00:06.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,solid flute tone
Dialogue: 0,0:00:06.74,0:00:16.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,flute tone continues
Dialogue: 0,0:00:16.62,0:00:20.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my name is Adnan Naseem Khan, I'm a film maker
Dialogue: 0,0:00:20.72,0:00:24.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in Dallas, Texas, United States
Dialogue: 0,0:00:24.59,0:00:28.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my profound journey to Greece, exploring
Dialogue: 0,0:00:28.83,0:00:33.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Greece, began when one of my professors and good friend
Dialogue: 0,0:00:33.00,0:00:35.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Max Kazemzadeh invited me to film this
Dialogue: 0,0:00:35.74,0:00:40.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,majestic journey of reliving the myth of
Dialogue: 0,0:00:40.64,0:00:44.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Melissani Cave in the form of an art installation and
Dialogue: 0,0:00:44.71,0:00:48.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he told me it would be an interactive audio visual installation
Dialogue: 0,0:00:48.78,0:00:51.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to actually illustrate the myth. It sounded
Dialogue: 0,0:00:51.88,0:00:55.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,astonishing and fascinating and I was really excited to
Dialogue: 0,0:00:55.76,0:01:00.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,visit Kefalonia island, I should say the island with miraculous
Dialogue: 0,0:01:00.36,0:01:04.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,surprises. (water sounds small splashes, with music)
Dialogue: 0,0:01:04.96,0:01:10.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(music beats)
Dialogue: 0,0:01:10.00,0:01:15.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(music with sounds of photo camera clicks)
Dialogue: 0,0:01:15.41,0:01:17.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(music)
Dialogue: 0,0:01:17.84,0:01:20.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My name is Max Kazemzadeh, I'm a professor at
Dialogue: 0,0:01:20.21,0:01:23.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Gallaudet University in Washington, DC.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:23.55,0:01:27.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was invited by the Ionian Center
Dialogue: 0,0:01:27.29,0:01:31.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and just in some discussions with Rita Blaik, who
Dialogue: 0,0:01:31.92,0:01:36.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is a PhD student/candidate in material sciences at UCLA
Dialogue: 0,0:01:36.80,0:01:41.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we started to discuss some of the things
Dialogue: 0,0:01:41.00,0:01:43.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,via skype that Kefalonia had to
Dialogue: 0,0:01:43.67,0:01:47.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,offer. One major component was myth.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:47.05,0:01:51.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There was one myth in particular that was quite interesting, and that was the myth of Melissani.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:51.71,0:01:55.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and Melissani was a nymph
Dialogue: 0,0:01:55.45,0:01:59.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Nymphs are sort of super-human and..
Dialogue: 0,0:01:59.75,0:02:03.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sub-god-like, and are there to entertain the gods
Dialogue: 0,0:02:03.96,0:02:08.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,bring dancing, joy, life, love, creativity...
Dialogue: 0,0:02:08.60,0:02:12.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,energy, to the god's
Dialogue: 0,0:02:12.37,0:02:16.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,house, and the story of the nymphs was very interesting
Dialogue: 0,0:02:16.50,0:02:19.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The nymphs actually guarded the waterways
Dialogue: 0,0:02:19.24,0:02:25.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the plant-life... the spiritual world.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:25.01,0:02:28.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and so rarely seen by human eye
Dialogue: 0,0:02:28.32,0:02:32.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they would hide in caves and certain areas of the river
Dialogue: 0,0:02:32.39,0:02:35.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and didn't travel much
Dialogue: 0,0:02:35.36,0:02:40.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Anyway, there was one Melissani nymph in particular
Dialogue: 0,0:02:40.49,0:02:44.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who fell in love with a satyr
Dialogue: 0,0:02:44.36,0:02:48.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,named Pan. Turns out that Pan was a satyr
Dialogue: 0,0:02:48.14,0:02:51.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,kind of half man, half goat...with the horns and the furry
Dialogue: 0,0:02:51.94,0:02:55.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,legs...and um, and Melissani fell in love with
Dialogue: 0,0:02:55.64,0:02:59.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this character that played a flute that
Dialogue: 0,0:02:59.71,0:03:03.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,seduce the nymphs. Well it turns out that this story of
Dialogue: 0,0:03:03.92,0:03:07.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Melissani was a tragedy, because Pan being
Dialogue: 0,0:03:07.72,0:03:11.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the musician that he was, kept evading the love of
Dialogue: 0,0:03:11.92,0:03:15.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and maybe relationships, um in particular the one with
Dialogue: 0,0:03:15.66,0:03:19.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Melissani, and Melissani was heartbroken to the point where she threw
Dialogue: 0,0:03:19.87,0:03:24.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,herself into the Melissani cave lake, which
Dialogue: 0,0:03:24.04,0:03:27.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is now called "The Melissani Cave Lake"
Dialogue: 0,0:03:27.57,0:03:31.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and committed suicide. During the discussions with Rita Blaik, I thought this was really interesting
Dialogue: 0,0:03:31.94,0:03:36.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that there was this myth, this mythical character, this whole mythical story
Dialogue: 0,0:03:36.25,0:03:39.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that was directly connected
Dialogue: 0,0:03:39.85,0:03:43.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with an actual physical location. I started to think about technology
Dialogue: 0,0:03:43.92,0:03:48.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,can expand the scope of human action
Dialogue: 0,0:03:48.53,0:03:51.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in such a way to where it makes us super-human
Dialogue: 0,0:03:51.93,0:03:55.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on some level. And so this became the impetus
Dialogue: 0,0:03:55.87,0:03:59.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for this project in Melissani, to build interactive environments
Dialogue: 0,0:03:59.84,0:04:03.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,interactive systems that would be able to
Dialogue: 0,0:04:03.61,0:04:08.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,extend or expand the scope of human action within a space
Dialogue: 0,0:04:08.25,0:04:12.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, in this process
Dialogue: 0,0:04:12.59,0:04:16.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I started to think about people that were friends of mine
Dialogue: 0,0:04:16.36,0:04:20.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,around the world that were specialists, conceptually
Dialogue: 0,0:04:20.96,0:04:23.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and technically in these arenas
Dialogue: 0,0:04:23.50,0:04:26.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and also people that I liked to work with in the past, so I
Dialogue: 0,0:04:26.23,0:04:30.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,invited them all to come, and instead of developing
Dialogue: 0,0:04:30.00,0:04:34.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a project prior to coming and installing it
Dialogue: 0,0:04:34.58,0:04:38.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as I seem to usually do, I invited them
Dialogue: 0,0:04:38.51,0:04:42.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to come to Kefalonia and to build the project
Dialogue: 0,0:04:42.85,0:04:47.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,onsite, to conceive the project onsite and to build the project onsite
Dialogue: 0,0:04:47.09,0:04:51.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with people from Kefalonia that would like to collaborate and corroborate
Dialogue: 0,0:04:51.02,0:04:54.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with our project, and so we all
Dialogue: 0,0:04:54.100,0:04:58.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,arrived one by one here with this idea
Dialogue: 0,0:04:58.76,0:05:02.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of reliving the myth through technology, and
Dialogue: 0,0:05:02.70,0:05:06.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,expanding the scope of human action, and um
Dialogue: 0,0:05:06.51,0:05:10.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the last two weeks we've been researching
Dialogue: 0,0:05:10.98,0:05:14.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the sites and sounds of Kefalonia
Dialogue: 0,0:05:14.88,0:05:18.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the myths. We've been interviewing individuals in
Dialogue: 0,0:05:18.18,0:05:22.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Kefalonia, um, getting their opinion about what the Melissani
Dialogue: 0,0:05:22.56,0:05:26.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,myth means to them and actually what they remember of the
Dialogue: 0,0:05:26.53,0:05:29.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,myth of Melissani, and integrating all of this into a
Dialogue: 0,0:05:29.40,0:05:34.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,um, interactive exhibition performance
Dialogue: 0,0:05:34.64,0:05:39.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,within the cave of Melissani
Dialogue: 0,0:05:39.21,0:05:42.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so the process, the evolution of the
Dialogue: 0,0:05:42.51,0:05:46.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,project has arrived
Dialogue: 0,0:05:46.61,0:05:50.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at a point where we are building, instead of an exhibition space that would stay
Dialogue: 0,0:05:50.25,0:05:54.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,up for a month or two, we decided to
Dialogue: 0,0:05:54.42,0:05:58.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,develop a um, performance exhibition in the lake
Dialogue: 0,0:05:58.32,0:06:02.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a one night event that would last two to three hours
Dialogue: 0,0:06:02.13,0:06:07.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the Melissani Lake. So we got approval for the lake, to work in the space
Dialogue: 0,0:06:07.10,0:06:10.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There are boat-men because we have to embark
Dialogue: 0,0:06:10.97,0:06:15.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from the entry-point through the lake to a mound
Dialogue: 0,0:06:15.28,0:06:18.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the lake that we are setting up projectors, computers
Dialogue: 0,0:06:18.21,0:06:22.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,um, we've already laid down cable for power
Dialogue: 0,0:06:22.28,0:06:26.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,um, we've sort of
Dialogue: 0,0:06:26.65,0:06:30.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,wired this lake so that it's ready for interaction
Dialogue: 0,0:06:30.39,0:06:33.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and so at 7PM
Dialogue: 0,0:06:33.59,0:06:37.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the exhibition and performance will begin. Visitors will come from
Dialogue: 0,0:06:37.66,0:06:42.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Melissani Lake City, from all of
Dialogue: 0,0:06:42.10,0:06:46.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,areas around Kefalonia that we've visited and handed out fliers
Dialogue: 0,0:06:46.44,0:06:50.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's excitement in the air, it's really nice. They will line up
Dialogue: 0,0:06:50.24,0:06:55.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they'll each jump in a boat. There are three boats
Dialogue: 0,0:06:55.15,0:06:58.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Boat-men will paddle them through
Dialogue: 0,0:06:58.58,0:07:02.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the lake as a kind of water-tour. And through
Dialogue: 0,0:07:02.29,0:07:07.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this tour each boat will be given a cell phone
Dialogue: 0,0:07:07.26,0:07:10.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that will allow the visitors in each boat
Dialogue: 0,0:07:10.70,0:07:13.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to interact with the Melissani characters
Dialogue: 0,0:07:13.73,0:07:18.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with the projections and with the sounds, as an
Dialogue: 0,0:07:18.20,0:07:23.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,interface to connect to Pan, who will be performing
Dialogue: 0,0:07:23.51,0:07:26.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,live in the cave with his flute.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:26.31,0:07:30.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The boat-ride will last
Dialogue: 0,0:07:30.52,0:07:34.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,probably 20 minutes, 25 minutes
Dialogue: 0,0:07:34.52,0:07:38.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We'll have people cycling through and then at the end
Dialogue: 0,0:07:38.49,0:07:42.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there will be
Dialogue: 0,0:07:42.70,0:07:46.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,some kind of sort of climax, and
Dialogue: 0,0:07:46.27,0:07:49.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from what I understand from the people I've spoken to
Dialogue: 0,0:07:49.84,0:07:53.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from the municipality, from some of the art centers here, and from the
Dialogue: 0,0:07:53.31,0:07:57.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,citizens here, nothing like this has ever been done before
Dialogue: 0,0:07:57.51,0:08:01.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the lake, and um, I've never done anything like this before, so I'm really excited
Dialogue: 0,0:08:01.92,0:08:06.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to have this opportunity to be here.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:06.22,0:08:10.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(music continues)
Dialogue: 0,0:08:10.02,0:08:14.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(music continues)
Dialogue: 0,0:08:14.93,0:08:18.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(music continues)