\n Greece has been lobbying for their return\u00a0for almost 200 years, asserting that they were stolen by the Scottish nobleman.\n<\/p>\n
\n Lord Elgin claimed to have been given permission from the Ottoman Empire, which controlled Greece at the time, to remove them but the original letter has been lost and the precise meaning behind translations has been disputed.\n<\/p>\n
\n Read More:<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n \n In 2022, the Greek culture minister accused him of \u201ca blatant act of serial theft\u201d.\n <\/p>\n \n Director\u00a0David Nicholas Wilkinson\u00a0screened the work-in-progress version of his film at last year\u2019s CSDF, will return with the world premiere of the dynamic finished work exploring the controversial topic.\n <\/p>\n \n Wilkinson attempts to answer the complex question of how former colonial powers should endeavour to make amends for unethical activity in their history. He argues that Scotland should hold the title as leading country in the world for repatriating artefacts and human remains which were taken during its colonial past.\u00a0\n <\/p>\n \n Notable participants in the documentary include actor Brian Cox, Neil Curtis, head of museums and special collections at the University of Aberdeen<\/a>, Patricia Allan, former Curator of World Cultures at Glasgow Museums,\u00a0and retired businessman Tom Minogue.\u00a0\u00a0\n <\/p>\n \n The piece has also prompted a statement from the Scottish Government<\/a>, which is included in the film.\u00a0<\/strong>Mr Wilkinson maintains that this is far more comprehensive and far-ranging than any statement put out by governments anywhere in the world when confronting dubiously acquired artefacts.\n <\/p>\n \n He argues that the example set by Glasgow City Council<\/a> regarding the Ghost Dance Shirt should serve as a blueprint for former colonial countries everywhere.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\n <\/p>\n \n In 2019, Kevingrove Art<\/a> Gallery and Musuem returned a shirt<\/a> to the South Dakota Cultural Heritage Center in the United States\u00a0which had been taken from a member of the\u00a0Lakota Sioux tribe following a massacre at the Battle of Wounded Knee in 1890.\n <\/p>\n \n Mr Wilkinson, director\u00a0of\u00a0The Marbles\u00a0said:\u00a0\u201cEvery filmmaker hopes their film will be awarded the prestigious opening night slot at a film festival. Not only am I thrilled that\u00a0The Marbles\u00a0has received this honour, but it is also gratifying that it is at the Central Scotland Documentary Festival, which has now become the only film celebration event in the world to screen all four documentaries I have directed, and also, because Scotland has become the hero of the film.\u201d\u00a0\n<\/p>\n \n Grahame Reid,\u00a0Festival Director\u00a0of the\u00a0Central Scotland Documentary Festival\u00a0commented:\u00a0\u201cGetting to see the work-in-progress version of\u00a0The Marbles\u00a0was one of the highlights of CSDF24, so naturally the finished piece is the perfect film to open this year\u2019s festival. I can\u2019t wait for audiences to experience David\u2019s incredibly special documentary.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Greece has been lobbying for their return\u00a0for almost 200 years, asserting that they were stolen by the Scottish…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":412953,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5009],"tags":[748,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-412952","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scotland","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-scotland","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115179651256642584","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}