Stamos Birsim, the son of the director Tasos Birsim, or in any other case the magician behind the debates because the newspapers of the time referred to as him on their entrance pages, wrote early within the morning: “Good night time father. You suffered. You fought bravely and till your final breath your digital camera will likely be regular. Optimistic. Shiny. Like your life, your profession. Your loved ones. You hugged all of them with the largest protecting hug. Information them. To like them. Advise them. Time to relaxation father. Goodbye”.
The cinematic germ
The director Tasos Birsim, who now seems to be down on us from above, had the “cinema”, as his grandmother would say, emphasizing along with his voice the incorrect speech with a playful temper in an interview with Irini earlier in August. Nikolopoulou , occurred within the place the place his coronary heart beat, his place, Leonidio.
Birsim sat along with her in regards to the informal course of his life, sitting stoically in a wood chair with the ocean and the moon rising behind him, which might change into “good” in 4 days as he stated.
He had not lived for a few years in his native nation. As he stated: “I didn’t dwell Leonidio, the Tsakonia as we are saying, I left once I was very younger and I left as a result of I couldn’t keep. We had three boys. I went to Piraeus to board the ships, however as a result of I used to be within the cinema from a younger age, I had the germ and I began going to high school, I began every part with this job”.
The director could not have gone to Piraeus, however he did go along with his digital camera to all of the distinctive occasions of the place from the late 60’s onwards. Tasos Birsim, nonetheless within the trendy historical past of Greece, as a pioneer within the protection of vital native occasions.
The Euro ceremony in 2002, the inauguration of Eleftherios Venizelos Airport in 2001, the inauguration of the Antirio River Bridge in 2004, the Millennium ceremony in 2000, in every part huge and vital for the folks of the nation, Birsim was there.
“As in the event that they have been on the roof”
His mastery was that he realized very early on that tv conferences are certainly for tv. In an period when the display screen was dominated by monochromatic pictures, Birsim at all times had methods up his sleeve, be it lengthy pictures in order that the viewer might get an actual style of the occasion, or it was the world that was being lit. rightly so. to point out his majesty and pulse.
“What I wished to deliver to the companions was that they might see it from our picture, from mine, as if it have been on the roof and I believe we succeeded” he replied when ‘journalists requested him about his directorial strategy to the switch of occasions from the world to the tv display screen.
Birsim’s skilled stops in personal and public tv have been quite a few. Notable are these at ERT the place he was a tv director within the 80s and likewise on the MEGA tv station the place he anchored for a very long time.
Andreas Papandreou
To be able to bear in mind the outdated and the younger to study, it’s value mentioning that Tasos Birsim “fulfilment of responsibility” is the unique director of an important political character of PASOK from the Put up-colony to the current day, Andreas Papandreou.
Andreas Papandreou, who gathered the progressive voices of the time to his facet, managed to attraction to seas of individuals in his political speeches. Thus Tasos Birsim was chargeable for transmitting the spirit and energy of the socialist earthquake on to the screens of the tv viewers. Because the director himself identified, the 2 shared 5 codes in order that they might agree on the pictures, however with out an out of doors observer noticing.
“That is why he was by no means seen in my footage or cleansing himself or coughing or ingesting water. When he wished me to be on high of him, the shot would at all times present him, as a result of he could be reporting and speaking, we needed to [τον κώδικα] and I used to be a close-up and I used to be additionally displaying my pictures of the world” Birsim was talked about about “consulting incognito”.
“The boy” and the historic nod
Andreas Papandreou’s pre-election marketing campaign in Patras for the 1993 elections had gone down in historical past, when a crowd of supporters of the PASOK president held flags exterior the town.
Birsim, who was in fact chargeable for this picture, managed to shortly replenish and when Papandreou arrived in his luxurious black Mercedes, he began recording the cheers of the group because the president tried to greet his ” folks” along with his attribute, ethereal method.
From the group, somebody heard calling Papandreou “Palikare” which, in fact, Birsim didn’t wish to lower within the edit. In spite of everything, presence was at all times what he wished.
It is sufficient to bear in mind the monitor of essentially the most well-known signal on the territory of Greece. When Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou arrived on October 22, 1998 at Hellinikon airport from Harefield, England, a big crowd gathered to welcome him. After greeting and sending kisses, he nodded to Dimitra Lianis, formalizing their relationship within the public sphere.
*{Photograph}: Τasosbirsim