ORIGINS / director’s cut
final scene
OPENING CEREMONY
FIRST EUROPEAN GAMES
conceived, visualised and directed by
DIMITRIS PAPAIOANNOU
Baku 2015
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the final fifteen minutes that lit the fire of the first European Games
on 12 June 2015 in Baku
a story created with the ingredients of Azerbaijan, land of FIRE
an iconic Azerbaijani CARPET
the sound of MUGHAM
the mud volcanoes that make vast CRACKED EARTH landscapes
a SEMENI plate with green sprouting wheat, symbol of NOVRUZ,
a festival rooted in ZOROASTRIANISM that celebrates spring and rebirth
FIRE MOUNTAIN (YANAR DAG), where eternal fires burn from the ground
prehistoric PETROGLYPHS — among the earliest images created by humans — carved into the rocks at GOBUSTAN
the CASPIAN sea
a traditional MALE DANCE
the story of LEYLI & MAJNUN, a legendary unfulfilled love from the epic poem by NIZAMI
where Majnun becomes a “holy fool”, a hermit on a MOUNTAIN who envisions
the image of Leyli as the mani
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