Season
Season 1 Episode
- Season 1 Symposium, or the Received Ideas
- Season 1 Olympics, or the Imaginary Greece
- Season 1 Democracy, or the City of Dreams
- Season 1 Nostalgia, or the Impossible Return
- Season 1 Amnesia, or the Sense of History
- Season 1 Mathematics, or the Realm of Signs
- Season 1 Logomachy, or the Root of Words
- Season 1 Music, or the Inner Space
- Season 1 Cosmogony, or the Use of the World
- Season 1 Mythology, or the Truth of Lies
- Season 1 Misogyny, or Desire's Traps
- Season 1 Tragedy, or the Illusion of Death
- Season 1 Philosophy, or the Owl's Triumph
The Owl's Legacy - Season 1 Episode 3 Democracy, or the City of Dreams
9.50 26 minutes What exactly does the word mean “democracy” mean? Does it designates the ancient city-state or our contemporary political systems? What are the analogies or, on the contrary, the radical differences between realities separated by more than twenty centuries? Are certain functions suitable for all civilizations? Τhe third episode of Chris Marker’s legendary documentary series – which first aired on British state television in 1991 but remained in the dark for decades – returns to classical antiquity to make a bold parallel, familiarizing 21st-century audiences with a concept of the commons that seems primordial yet innovative, reinventing itself in every single manifestation.
