Just got back from the ODEON-OPERA cinema where I saw "LINCOLN" and have sat down to write a note on "THE BUBBLE". Great movie, "LINCOLN". After this what can I say about "THE BUBBLE"? That instead of shooting something uplifting like Kapodistrias’s pleading at the 4th National Assembly in the ancient theatre of Argos in 1829, and his assassination in beautiful Nauplia, I plunged again into the mire of stereotypes of social rot and conspiracy theories? That this time there was no budget for film and for the first time I shot with a DVCam? That in Greece in 2001 there was no RED, nor any ALEXA camera, but that even if there had been we couldn't have afforded it? That it was the first time I had started shooting without a guaranteed distribution? Maybe because it was the first film about the bubbles of domestic terrorism and the economy, "strategic investors" began to withdraw after browsing the script, and in the end there were only "entrapped small investors". Perhaps because the crash on the Sofokles Street stock exchange (the Greek Wall Street) was still very recent and the blister of terrorism wouldn't burst until a year later. Maybe because they were afraid that I wanted to shoot the epilogue with Spartacus and Fidel Castro in Cuba, where I’d been the previous year to meet members of ΙCAIC.

Finally the film was shot after huge concessions by crew and actors, as well as the assistance of many friends, but it seems its fate was preordained. The film opened early in January 2002 without TV ads, in cinemas that had to close their doors for three, some for four, days because of the unprecedented frost. The commercial result was similar. When FILMNET showed "THE BUBBLE", several industry experts approached me with the assurance that the film could be screened successfully in cinemas. When the DVD was released a year later, this was also considered prophetic...