One of the modes that the film utilises is that of the essay mode, with its Socratic-like questioning. This is a film that has an edge. A deep sense of tragedy infuses the aforementioned A Face of Greekness , but it can also be found in spades in Tsilimidos short Man of Straw . The camera follows the one man around as he, you guessed it, loses all his money at the racetrack. It is a devastating portrait.
Dionysian qualities abound in some of the films under discussion.
As for Apollinian qualities, not too many seem to be in evidence in these Greek-Australian films. Perhaps only my work qualifies, with its reflective and still elements. The one film that combines philosophical, tragic, Dionysian and Apollinian states is the aforementioned Two Homelands . Here is a film that is tragic, that is full of life, full of feeling, and yet it is also calm in the way it looks at all these things. I would say they are, because of the extremes of feeling and thought that reside within them.