Tonnage

Yorgos Kyvernitis / Greece / 2024 / International Premiere / 19 min.

synopsis

When humans learned how to make fire, they began their journey toward inventions and industrial revolutions. The director of the film observes the constant presence of this primal spark in the work of Greek dockworkers, who unload tons of material from ships, material that is used to make objects we encounter in our everyday lives.

“With a direct reference to the exact meaning of Tonnage, a word describing the weight in tons, especially of cargo or freight, the film traces the vexed semantics and archives of such a weight, historically and symbolically.” — Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival

biography

Yorgos Kyvernitis (born 1988) is a Greek photographer and documentary filmmaker. He lives alternately in Athens and Amsterdam. His work straddles the line between photojournalism and observational film. He focuses primarily on portraits of people and communities. He received the audience award at the Thessaloniki IDF for his film Ta kanarinia (The Canaries, 2019).

film details

director:	Yorgos Kyvernitis
producer:	Yorgos Kyvernitis
photography:	Yorgos Kyvernitis
editing:	Yorgos Kyvernitis
music:	Giorgos Moraitis
sound design:	Aris Athanasopoulos
co-producer:	2023 Eleusis European Capital of Culture & The Central Projects
executive producer:	Anastasia Tsopelaki