Giannis Tamtakos

“Koursal” was the name of the only cinema in the world that ever operated on a sailing ship on the beach at Thessaloniki during the inter-war years. The search for specific data surrounding the mythic cinema becomes an anguished quest as it disappears into a misty landscape through which, over the space of approximately one hundred years, other facets of the city emerge – facets which official history defiantly ignores…