Odysseus
The word Politropos comes from ancient Greek. It’s the very first adjective that Homer uses to describe Ulysses in the Odyssey. The word means “of many ways” which applies to Ulysses’ wandering adventures but also to the many sides of his persona which he showed in the face of adversity.
Politropos Productions was born in 2004 when I made my first short film at Napier Edinburgh University. Once I left the sheltered bosom of higher education I realised I’d need a more catchy and memorable name and that’s how PoliFilm was born.
In my case Politropos is the way I communicate; film making intrinsically brings together words, images and sounds to create meaning; it is, quite literally a medium ‘of many ways’. As a director I often find myself amidst the myriad of possibilities that film making offers and must navigate these much traveled waters to find each time the right way of telling the story… this is my Odyssey.