Ars Electronica
Each year the Prix Ars Electronica awards the most important and accomplished productions of alternative media - and the Athens Open Air Film Festival collects the most interesting works among them and presents them to you in a groundbreaking screening!
The most important festival of the electronic arts in the world, the equivalent of the Academy Awards for the mixed media, and an interactive platform of trends and new creations, Ars Electronica marries moving image and music with digital art, to discover alternative suggestions for art.
Each year the Prix Ars Electronica awards the most important and accomplished productions of alternative media - and the Athens Open Air Film Festival collects the most interesting works among them and presents them to you in a groundbreaking screening!
The Cow Who Wanted to Be a Hamburger
Director: Bill Plympton
Duration: 5'47
It’s the story of a young cow, mesmerized by the marketing power of a hamburger billboard, and his ultimate goal of becoming the best hamburger he can be. A children's fable about the power of advertising, the meaning of life and ultimately the test of a mother's love.
The Greek Crisis Explained
Director: NOMINT MOTION DESIGN
Duration: 2'43
Greece, a young spoiled girl gets devoured by Dept, a humongous monster. EU cannot help Greece out on its own. And when all hope is lost, IMF is brought into play...
La Détente
Directors: Pierre Ducos, Bertrand Bey
Duration: 8'30
In a trench during the First World War, a French soldier becomes paralyzed with fear. His mind disconnects from reality and escapes to a world where wars are fought by toys.
The Third & The Seventh
Director: Alex Roman
Duration: 12'29
Roman creates a digital environment in which the viewer “walks through” every past project of his, experiencing them spatially and tangibly.
Meet Buck
Directors: Denis Bouyer, Yann de Preval, Vincent E Sousa, Laurent Monneron
Duration: 4'28
The story regular guy named Buck that just so happens to have a deer head. Well, it also just so happens that his girlfriend’s father isn’t to keen on the idea of him dating her...
Trois Petits Points
Directors: Lucrece Andreae, Alice Dieudonne, Tracy Nowocien, Florian Parrot, Ornelle Prioul, Remy Schaepman
Duration: 3'33
A seamstress is waiting for her husband to return from the war.
Umbra
Director: Malcolm Sutherland
Duration: 5'35
An explorer adventures into an unknown world, yet it seems that he has been there before.
Dripped
Director: Leo Verrier
Duration: 8'12
New York, 1950. A passionate fan of art, Jack wanders around museums all day long. He steals paintings, which he hides in his flat in order to...
My Mother's Coat
Director: Marie-Margaux Tsakiri-Scanatovits
Duration: 6'06
An Italian mother confesses the hardships she faced when she moved to Greece in the 70s, leaving behind the small town shw was born in.
Paths of Hate
Director: Damian Nenow
Duration: 10'31
A stunning aerial dogfight between two pilots brings both to the edge, transforming them into something darker.
Train of Thought
Director: Leo Bridle, Ben Thomas
Duration: 3'57
In a world made entirely out of paper, the wistful drawings in a man′s sketchbook are brought to life by the rhythm of a train journey...
One Minute Puberty
Directors: Alexander Gellner, Niklas A Kroger
Duration: 1'41
A one minute animated journey of a boy's experience with puberty.
Danny Boy
Director: Marek Scrobecki
Duration: 10'
A young man, the only one who's kept his head in a headless city, wanders the streets aimlessly.
Stanley Pickle
Director: Vicky Mather
Duration: 11'19
Stanley never goes outside. He likes to play with his clockword toys and every night his mother kisses him goodnight.
Stanley is twenty.
The trouble is that Stanley thinks this is all quite normal until an encounter with a mysterious girl turns his world upside down...
Free entrance
When: Friday 24th August, 21:00
Where: Technologiko Politistiko Parko Lauriou
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The Athens Open Air Film Festival is organized by the Greek Film Center and the Athens International Film Festival and is co-financed by the European Fund of Regional Development and is incorporated in the Priority Axis 2 “Sustainable Development and Improvement of Life Quality” of the Regional Operational Program «Attica» NSRF 2007-2013. All the events are carried out under the auspices of the Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs, Culture and Sports.
