Faces of Myth DVD Cover 2003

Mimetoliths DVD Cover

MiMEtoLITHs
a documentary by
ALGIS KEMEZYS
produced by BYRON AYANOGLU

This film travels to beautiful/mystical Crete, to closely look at Mimetoliths (rocks and stones that imitate living and mythical beings). It embraces the Muses that have languished petrified on the sacred landscape; the Phaistos Disk; intergalactic travel; Pythagoras’ golden proportion of 1 to 1.618; missing Planets; the Labyrinth; the Minotaur.
The rocks and stones of certain sacred places are alive with stories to tell. I have believed this since childhood, when my mother would send me on stone-hunts, to keep me busy; and later when as an adult I travelled the world continuously on a spiritual quest, looking for inspiration.
I found some of what I was looking for on Crete, the largest of the Greek islands, and travelled back there repeatedly for the last four years. I scoured the landscape for meaningful mimetoliths, because of the legends and mysteries of the island. I built stone monuments to reflect nature and to please the gods. I encountered others who felt the same passions as myself and interviewed them. I tried to penetrate the ancient secrets within the rocks as I filmed them and spoke to them and became one with them.
Algis Kemezys, director, MIMETOLITHS