Ionian ContemporaryAnimation Festival ICONA December, 2nd-5th, 2021
Professional Greek Competition
Sunday 05/12/2021 10:00 - 13:00, Monday 06/12/2021 01:00 - 04:00
Total Duration: 2:45:14
- The classmate / H συμμαθήτρια 05:40 Greece 2021
3rd Place - Greek Professional Short Animation- JuryDirected: Anastasia Dimitra, George Gkavalos Screenplay: Anastasia Dimitra Production: VIEWSTUDIO concept Marina’s internal dialogue in contrast to reality, where she faces her surroundings and concerns. She is watching and interacts with her inner voice- the classmate. In the end, Marina is accepting herself.
- Yaf Youf / Γιαφ-Γιουφ 03:53 Greece 2020
Directed: Athina Georgia Koumela Stop Motion animated video for an old Smyrnian Rembetiko Song.
- Funeral of Ego 02:53 Greece 2021
Greek Professional Short Animation - Audience AwardDirected: Valasia Dodulu Screenplay: Yorgos Smak Production: Valasia Dodulu Dialogue Language: English An experimental stop motion animation film for Yorgos Smak's original song
- Different 03:21 Greece
Directed: Christina Kalantzi Finding your "tribe" is really unique . That's how "different" survives ...
- The papercut 03:39 Greece 2021
Directed: Christina Kalantzi Screenplay: Natasa Kyriazidou Dialogue Language: Modern Greek (1453-) The papercut can show how a bigger picture of the world resets our small egoes
- Phoenix 05:03 Greece 2020
Directed: Christina Kalantzi Dialogue Language: English Phoenix is the rebirth of the refugees. When you fight for your life, need becomes a way of life.
- Hellenic Places: Hermoupolis / Τόποι του Ελληνισμού: Ερμούπολη 17:25 Greece 2021
Directed: Charalambos Margaritis Screenplay: Vassilis K. Karamitsanis Production: PLATFORMA- Urban Culture Co- Animasyros International Animation Festival Dialogue Language: Modern Greek (1453-) The city of Hermoupolis, capital of Syros is located at the center of the Cyclades, in the Aegean Sea, in Greece. In its history one can find all the elements that shaped contemporary Greece. This is an animated documentary telling its story. Ερμούπολη, η πρωτεύουσα της Σύρου, στο κέντρο του νησιωτικού συμπλέγματος των Κυκλάδων, στην Ελλάδα. Στην ιστορία της απαντώνται όλες οι ζυμώσεις που διαμόρφωσαν τον σύγχρονο Ελληνισμό. Αυτό το animated ντοκιμαντέρ αφηγείται την ιστορία της.
- Cast-Outs / Στο Γύψο 15:00 Greece 2020
Directed: Alexandros Romanos Lizardos, Akis Melachris Screenplay: Alexandros Romanos Lizardos, Giorgos Komiotis Production: Aris Asimakopoulos Dialogue Language: Modern Greek (1453-) Through faulty handling that leads to the collapse of a penitentiary and mass escapes, newly appointed Jail-R suffers multiple fractures and loses his job. While convalescing, he is hired as a bank security guard. When the three masterminds behind the prison break hit the branch on his morning shift. Jail-R is called to rise to the occasion, with plaster cast and all.
- Drunk Conference Call 02:20 Greece 2021
Directed: Dimitris Armenakis Animated Music Video for Work Party's 'Drunk Conference Call' from their upcoming album 'My Best Days Are Behind Me' (2021).
- Aykroyd 03:57 Greece 2021
Directed: Dimitris Armenakis Production: Crazysane Records Animated Music Video for ZAHN's 'Aykroyd' from their upcoming self-titled album (Crazysane Records, 2021).
- Apprehension 02:06 Greece 2021
Directed: Dimitris Armenakis Production: FACTOR, Manitoba Film & Music, Artoffact Animated Music Video for Tunic's 'Apprehension' from their upcoming album 'Quitter' (Artoffact Records, 2021).
- Fall² 05:13 Greece 2020
Honorary Mention - Greek Professional Short Animation- JuryDirected: Nikos Radaios Screenplay: Nikos Radaios Production: Nikos Radaios After fleeing a war zone, the mysterious passengers of a boat arrive at an abandoned Mall, where life appears to have ceased a long time ago.
- Your daughter Hero 04:12 Greece Submissi 2021
Directed: Apostolis Iliopoulos, Elias Roumeliotis Screenplay: Marina Lizardou, Apostolis Iliopoulos, Aris Kaplanidis Production: Municipality of Fyli Dialogue Language: Modern Greek (1453-) The story of a young teenager's metaphysical relationship with climate change phenomena.
- THE IDEAL OTHER / Ο ΙΔΑΝΙΚΟΣ ΑΓΝΩΣΤΟΣ ΑΛΛΟΣ 08:05 Greece 2021
Directed: Dimitrios Patrikios Screenplay: DIMITRIOS PATRIKIOS, SOTERIA GEORGOPOULOU Production: VIEW STUDIO Dialogue Language: Modern Greek (1453-) Marina, a young disabled woman, takes part in a video conference, during which she talks to John, a ‘different’ racially student. The 'demon' of the internet, however, prevents them from seeing their visual 'social' peculiarities. In the appointment they later arrange, they are recognized, surprised and flee, terrified by the ‘social’ and racial, unknown that they meet and refuse to accept, despite the public image that they both want to present.
- Locked inn 02:58 Greece 2021
Directed: Stavrina Kykalou Production: Stavrina Kykalou Due to Covid 19 pandemic, this is the 2nd lockdown in Greece and Fofo has to stay at home all alone. This time she's gonna do everything right. She'll take care of herself, exercise, read all those books she hasn't read, watch the films she didn't have the time to watch. But first of all, she won't get bored. Or will she?
- Lost & Found / Απολεσθέντα 09:14 Greece 2021
Directed: Vivian Papageorgiou Screenplay: Vivian Papageorgiou Production: Ioanna Bolomyti Dialogue Language: No Dialogue A naughty suitcase in an airport that wants to be free.
- I LOST THE WAY / ΕΧΑΣΑ ΤΟ ΔΡΟΜΟ ΜΟΥ 08:00 Greece 2021
2nd Place - Greek Professional Short Animation - JuryDirected: Panagiotis Rappas Screenplay: Panagiotis Rappas Production: Panagiotis Kyriakoulakos Dialogue Language: Modern Greek (1453-) Two parallel monologues. Two men of different ages, talk about their lives and what haunts them. One, almost middle-aged, feels he has lost his way. Full of anxiety and metaphysical agony, he desperately seeks to find the path of return that will lead him to his paternal home and the years of innocence. At the point where he started his impasse, so far, wandering. The route looks like a strange dream. People, animals, machines, change form, properties, and actions in a nightmarish cluster full of paradoxical images, charged with passions and unacknowledged guilt. The other, an elderly man, is nearing the end of his journey. Locked up in a small room, isolated, accompanied by memories and ghosts from the past, he has stopped being anxious. He watches the outside world through the window, with the same stoic calm that he also watches what happens in the strange circus that performs in his small room. Everything that his imagination, memory, and sensitive psyche puts in front of him. With laconic sentences that are more reminiscent of oracles, he raises questions about an absurd and perhaps futile world. An almost nightmarish world, the world that spent its life vulnerable to the alterations of time. They are both the same person. The poet M. Sachtouris in different phases of his life. The questions he asks are not philosophical declarations or logical findings, but images. Images that seem to come from a dream and end up in his poetic iconography. At the end of the imaginary journey, the poet "finds", among the ruins, his mother, and the room he recognizes as the home of his childhood. He returns to the womb without finding an answer to what tortured him along the way, since "there is no sanguine answer" because everything "is a vast void rather like a tomb". Panagiotis Rappas May 2021
- Alice in Covid-land 03:30 Greece 2021
Directed: Tina Mamali Screenplay: Tina Mamali Production: Tina Mamali Dialogue Language: English Alice in Covid-land is all of us apart when we experience our own personal deadlocks , when we swim in a deep depression and we can't find the way out, when our own self is the enemy , when we are moving in to the deep darkness and the light at the end of the road keeps getting stronger! - An experimental animated short film about Pandemic/Quarantine time inspired from the unique storie of Alice in Wonderland combine the original idea of a story with elements of postmodern filming using a multimedia content.
- "Le Théâtre de Gravures" 10:00 Greece
Directed: Christophoros Katsadiotis Production: Christophoros Katsadiotis The city as a theater stage. A city shaped by its ghosts. Familiar ghosts; characters from the darkest of darkness. Dreams escaped from the confines of mundanity, taking flight. Heroes dressed as madmen breaking free from conformity to the ordinary, crossing into the fantastical like solitude in a public square. And love, love is expressed as something cold. The music – audio – background intensifies the silence. The city’s chain, clanking, sets the rhythm. An agony of colors. Sadness. Grief and sarcasm rise from the abyss to define the characters. Instead of masks those playful shapes can be imagined as the faces themselves, illuminated by ersatz neutrality. Survival against the crash; a dream against the reconstruction of reality. There are no hypocrites here. Paper heroes become truths. You cannot hide in a dream. The cast of characters cannot and will not pretend that silence and loneliness do not merely complement each other but engage in a discourse between fact and the immaterial archive. The show moves at cinematic speed, glance askance and prone to twists. Poetic symbolism and ellipticity tacitly form a scream. Irony comes in a sob. The abyss leaves a track on the space and the narrative, inviting us to follow it.
- The chess game / Η παρτίδα 13:10 Greece 2021
Directed: Georgia Vorria Screenplay: Georgia Vorria Production: Georgia Vorria The story that takes place in a hostile, fragile city made of paper is a comment on the modern way of life and the forms of power. The hero of the story is victimized in a system full of loneliness, monotony, routine, lack of emotions and communication, bombing of controlled news and surveillance, consumerism and pollution.
- Fetuses 06:10 Greece
Directed: Sissy Barakari Screenplay: Sissy Barakari Production: Sissy Barakari In his book, "The Fall of Public Man", R.Sennet states that people nowadays sought to find personal meanings in impersonal situations and they are too close so as they can’t ensure a healthy social contact. The "fetuses" project attempts an unboxing of some of the imposed social conventions and behaviors, which are directly related to the satisfaction of the (real or apparent) needs of the individual. Under the guise of "intimacy", these conventions lead to the fragmentation of society into individuals who never manage to connect effectively. Individuals "come out" of their hypothetical boxes, but eventually they fail to communicate with each other like helpless fetuses trapped in the amniotic sac.
- Hyperhumanisme 05:57 Greece 2021
Directed: Vassia Zorbali Production: Vassia Zorbali People were buttons, weren't they? Suddenly we are falling into the water. We are trying to hold on to a familiar anchor, the Other, but we slip. Motion seems like a never-ending cycle around ourselves. One next to the other but nowhere to grasp. During the pandemic, the social veil of bewilderment falls heavy upon our shoulders, confining the desire to connect. Βy weaving, though, the net that will keep us united, we will resist at the gravity when falling and we will emerge anew. Connected as an entity without touching each other, we are all there. I can see you, I can hear you. Are you still there? These times of pronounced disembodiment find the body at its most rigid state, yet subjects are reconstituted. Once again they merge in water -the most familiar milieu of every unformed being- penetrating into mankind's womb. The battle of coexistence causes partitions out of which organic matter is reformed again and again. When kinetic energy meets inertia the being-in-the-world starts to emerge. Hyperhumanisme is inspired by the work “The dreams” (1964)- a collaborative radio art work between the dramatist and poetess Barry Bermangethe and composer Delia Derbyshire- and created in Anna-Maria’s Rammou music.
- Per Aspera 05:00 Greece 2021
1st Place - Greek Professional Short Animation - JuryDirected: Nika Lominatze Screenplay: Nika Lominatze Dialogue Language: English A glimpse into the life cycle of strange creatures from another universe.
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