Student Greek Competition

1. Nikitaras Immortal!!! / Νικηταράς Αθάνατος!!! 06:49 Greece 2022
   

   Screenplay:	Students of 6th grade of 1st Primary school of Ilion
   Production:	Students of 6th grade of 1st Primary school
   Dialogue Language:	Modern Greek (1453-)

   
   

   The project is an animation documentary that is a tribute to the hero of the 1821 Greek Revolution, Nikita Stamatelopoulo or Nikitara.

2. Caw! Woof! Splash! 03:40 United Kingdom 2022
   2nd Place - Greek Student Short Animation - Jury
   

   Directed:	Lamprini Loukaidi
   Dialogue Language:	English

   
   

   Existential comedy about a neighbourhood in captivity.

3. Dystopia 07:41 Greece 2022
   Honorary Mention - Greek Student Short Animation- Jury
   

   Directed:

   Domenica Varvalouka

   
   

   Τhe animation "dystopia", created on 3Ds Max & Lumion 11.0, stems from the mystical myths of the Dryads. It could function as a sequel to the videoart "melidies" revealing everything that happens in the transcendental world and we can not see. A transcendental space that as we move away from it, we can't be sure of what is real and what is not, as elements are constantly disappearing and reappearing, making us doubt reality. The music of Chrysostomos Patilas gives a pagan atmosphere to the video that emphasizes mysticism.

4. Looking for Joy 07:39 Greece 2021
   Honorary Mention - Greek Student Short Animation- Jury
   

   Directed:	Anna Oikonomou
   Production:	University of West Attica
   Dialogue Language:	English

   
   

   A girl is looking for a way to break the vicious cycle of her routine. She lives the same day over and over again.The world she lives in is gloomy and colorless. As time goes by, the pace gets higher and the girl finds herself in a nightmare, trapped on an alarm clock, on which different scenes of her routine come to life and attack her. The only thing that is colorful in her world is her cat, Joy, who helps her wake up from the nightmare and in the end, find the way-out that she was looking for. The film was produced as a graduation project for the Department of Graphic Design and Visual Communication of the University of West Attica, under the supervision of Dr Eleni Mouri.

5. Morph 06:49 Greece 2021
   

   Directed:	Sofia Persegidou, Lamprini Faka
   Screenplay:	Lamprini Faka, Sofia Persegidou
   Production:	Lamprini Faka, Sofia Persegidou
   Dialogue Language:	Modern Greek (1453-)

   
   

   A post-apocalyptic stop motion animation, which aims to comment on human behavior. When the need for companionship goes beyond the instinct of fear and survival.

6. Fish It 03:04 Greece 2022
   Honorary Mention - Greek Student Short Animation- Jury
   

   Directed:	Chryssa Voudouri
   Production:	Kostas Backas
   Dialogue Language:	English

   
   

   Fish It, is a cut out stop motion animated short film, created during a 2D Stop Motion Animation seminar-workshop, in May and June 2022, at the Graphic Arts, Typography and Book Arts Studio of thw Athens School of Fine Arts. Purpose of the seminar was introduction into Stop Motion Animation and creation of a collaborative stop motion short film from start to finish. The persons responsible for the seminar were the undergraduate student Chrysa Voudouri and the Studio technical staff member Kostas Backas. 12 students participated, who collaborated in groups, after jointly deciding how to create the animation (paper cut out - creating all the scenes and the moving parts with cut out colored papers), and the script (the story and characters of the student Iliana Fafouti were voted on). According to the storyboard made by the students and with the director's instructions, each group undertook to implement some scenes, i.e. to make the characters and scenery with paper and to take all the necessary shots for the scene in the studio set up for this purpose in the Studio. Some of the students also took on the role of coordinator, so that while one group was filming, the others were preparing their material. Each student also made for themselves a paper cut out character for the end credits, while student Thalia Vegkou created a digital typeface specifically for the film. After all the shots were done, the images were transferred for post production, which was also done in the Lab, as was the design of all the sounds. During the seminar the students were introduced to animation and video production, in the context of expanding the subject matter of Graphic Design. The students who participated in the seminar (in alphabetical order): Elena Asimakopoulou, Iliana Fafouti, Spyridoula Fideropoulou, Themis Gourgiotis, Stefania Karabela, Myrto Papadopoulou, Eva Rizou, Katerina Skordou, Christianna Sotiriou, Margarita Stefanidou, Alekos Tranoulidis, Thalia Vegkou.

7. Fragments: The Beginning 07:25 Greece 2022
   Greek Student Short Animation - Audience Award
   

   Directed:

   Manolis Karavidas

   
   

   A journey through medieval times.

8. Fragments: Deconstruction / Θραύσματα: Αποδόμηση 08:05 Greece 2022
   3rd Place - Greek Student Short Animation - Jury
   

   Directed:

   Manousos Manousakis

   
   

   An exploration of a bizarre, dark world.

9. Talos: the guardian of Crete 04:37 Greece 2021
   

   Directed:	John Kiritsis
   Screenplay:	John Kiritsis

   
   

   When the citizens of Crete were under attack, the King pleaded the gods for help. In response to the King's plea, the gods created a gigantic robot guardian named Talos. He was tasked with the protection of the island of Crete from all kinds of harm. Talos was proven successful in his role until the arrival of Jason and Medea who knew his only weakness.

10. The Fisherman 03:01 Greece 2022
    

    Directed:	Valasia Dodulu
    Screenplay:	Valasia Dodulu
    Production:	Valasia Dodulu

    
    

    A story of a fisherman, fishing inside a sewer

11. Scripted Apes 06:24 Greece 2022
    

    Directed:	Costas Philippou, Stergios Samsakis, Marios Antwniadis
    Screenplay:	Costas Philippou, Stergios Samsakis

    
    

    Scripted apes is an experimental animation video that explores the roots of the matter, from the distant past when the first explossion began until the human race appeared. It searchs the intensions of the matter and and how it creates and affectes the organic life. Different chaotic static shots generate transisions between one shot shot story telling sequenses that combine together to display the transition from anorganic matter to organic. From the creation of an inteligence to corruption and exploitation.

12. My Garden / Ο Κήπος μου 17:00 Greece 2022
    1st Place - Greek Student Short Animation - Jury
    

    Directed:	Eleni Filiou
    Screenplay:	Eleni Filiou
    Production:	University of West Attica

    
    

    The love and self-sacrifice that a human relationship needs, is paralleled to the care that a garden needs in order to flourish.

13. Day after Day/ .01 04:38 Greece 2022
    

    Directed:	Andriana Mila
    Screenplay:	Andriana Mila
    Production:	Andriana Mila
    Dialogue Language:	English, Modern Greek (1453-)

    
    

    "Day after Day" is a thinking process about our lives and the way they pass in front of our eyes like a Dream and a sweet Memory, both of them as the medium of self-exploration and reading of our inner psyche. Digital world gives birth to imagination, through virtual reality. Representation of the Cinema's Big Screen, night's stars and Creator's Digital Museum are things that are selected to show the life of ours and dreams passing in front of our eyes as someone's eyes who is sitting in front of the big screen and waits for the "movie" to start. "Life is meant to be a forgotten memory" is the expression that characterizes the mood of the video as the creator's personal belief, in a more poetic reading and interpretation of the connection that memory has with our everyday life and our dreams.