Animasyros 2022 returns to Syros on September 20-25 for its 15th edition with a rich programme of screenings, discussions and parallel events. The main pillar of the Festival are the educational workshops aimed at children, teenagers, young professionals, seniors and people with disabilities.
This year, the theme of the workshops is based on the 100th anniversary of the Asia Minor Catastrophe and in this context, in cooperation with the Association of Asia Minorists of Ermoupolis Syros, participants are invited to be inspired by literary quotations, photographs, traditional music from Asia Minor, recorded and written testimonies and create animation films with the guidance of experienced instructors from Greece and abroad.
Thus, Animasyros 2022 will host the three-day workshop for teenagers, “Animating the past”, with the talented Romanian filmmaker Paul Muresan as instructor for another year. Using the song “Smyrna Minor” as a starting point and using pastel colours on paper, participants will reanimate the past as it is vital to remember where we came from and where we choose to go. See the film “Children of Animasyros” created as part of last year's workshop: https://vimeo.com/615863073
In addition, the one-day workshop for children, “Yet It Moves”, with the Syrian cartoonist and illustrator Yannis Xagoraris, will take place in the beautiful Posidonia. Participants will make their own personal flipbook.
The workshop, aimed at adults and young professionals, will be led by the up-and-coming Israeli animator who lives and works in France, Mor Israeli. Using an excerpt from Ilias Venezis« »Aeoliki Γη« and the traditional song »Thalassa spite" as a starting point, we will explore and animate the concepts of migration and refugee for a lost past, a new present, and an unknown future.
Applications for these three workshops open on 23 August via the website www.animasyros.gr. More information is available at education2@animasyros.gr.
In addition to these, an educational workshop for disabled people with Elena Pavlaki as a trainer is organized in cooperation with the Municipality of Syros Ermoupolis, while the veterans of the active KAPI of the Municipality of Syros Ermoupolis will create their films with the animator, graphic designer and trainer Margarita Simopoulou.
Finally, in cooperation with the DELASAL Syros Education Centres, a three-day educational workshop for the school's students is organized with the instructor Charalambos Margaritis, director of the film "Landmarks of Hellenism": Ermoupolis, produced by Animasyros and on the occasion of this film.
Information about the workshops:
https://animasyros.gr/blog/animasyros-2022-educational-workshops
School Screenings at the Apollo Theatre
Animasyros, following the requirements of the times, invites students, teachers and professors to make use of the possibilities offered by the art of animation in a specially designed programme for children and teenagers:
20/09: Louis and Luca - Mission to the Moon (Rasmus A. Sivertsen, Norway, 2018, 80’’)
In the international race to the moon, the Norwegian expedition is led by the brilliant inventor Reodor from the village of Pinchcliffe. With Luca the Magpie as the brave astronaut, what could possibly go wrong? The screening is supported by the Embassy of Norway in Athens.
21/09: Captain Morten and the Spider Queen (Kaspar Jancis/Henry Nicholson/ Riho Unt, Estonia/Belgium/Ireland/England/England, 2018, 80’’)
As part of Animasyros' Baltic tribute, acclaimed Estonian director Kaspar Jancis shows ten-year-old Morten accidentally shrinking from an incompetent wizard and getting trapped on the deck of his own ship with the evil Spider Queen. The screening is supported by the Embassy of Estonia in Athens.
22/09: Icarus and The Minotaur (Carlo Vogele, France/Luxembourg/Belgium, 2021, 72’’)
On the island of Crete, in the time of King Minos, there lived a dreamy boy named Icarus. One day, he discovered a mysterious creature with the body of a man and the head of a bull, the well-known Minotaur. When the king asked Icarus' father, the famous inventor Daedalus, to work on a secret project, Icarus realized that his new friend might be in danger...
The screenings for schools take place at the Apollo Theatre in Ermoupolis, Syros, are free of charge and reservations are required at education2@animasyros.gr. There will be a first come, first served basis. For schools outside Ermoupolis, transport will be provided.
Applications for the workshops have started!
Deadline for applications: 14 September 2022
More information: www.animasyros.gr.
