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Α STEREOSCOPIC FILM BY ANTONIS NTOUSSIAS & ARIS FATOUROS
INSPIRED BY THE PAINTINGS OF THEODOROS PANTALEON
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FILM


CHARACTERISTICS - FACTS

Animation
Technique: 3D Computer Graphic
Production year: 2016
Production country: Greece
Color
Duration: 10' 18΄΄
Language: No dialogue
Aspect Ratio: 1:1,85
DCP 2K – HD
Worldwide rights: Steficon
Sales & festival contact: Vassilis Konstandopoulos
aenigma.3d.shortfilm@gmail.com


SHORT SUMMARY

A 3D requiem to Form, Feminine-Goddess, eternal Eve, Art. From idealization and
sacred worship to delectation and insemination, to transformation and
reproduction, to deterioration and decay, to desecration and vandalizing, to
condemnation and subjugation, to the fall into timeless erebus. To the dream of
regeneration.


EXTENDED SUMMARY

A 3D requiem to Form, Feminine Goddess, eternal Eve, Art. From idealization and
sacred worship to delectation and insemination, to transformation and
reproduction, to deterioration and decay, to desecration and vandalizing, to
condemnation and subjugation, to the fall into timeless erebus. To the vision of
regeneration. It is a field ruled by the poetic codes of painting, escaping,
daydreaming, introspection, coherent association, insight, ambiguity, intuition
and an overbearing surrealistic call for inner expression, emancipation of
spiritual forces and the tearing down of any dividing screen between conscious
and subconscious, between dream and reality.


CREDITS

Directed by Antonis Ntoussias & Aris Fatouros Screenplay Antonis Ntoussias &
Aris Fatouros Music – Sound Design Marios Aristopoulos Vocalists Anna Linardou,
Tassos Apostolou Art Direction- Αnimation- Editing Antonis Ntoussias Assistant
Αnimator Nadia Zervakou Mixing Kostas Varimpopiotis Production Michael
Sarantinos / Steficon Executive Producer Maria Kontogianni Creative Producer
Aris Fatouros Co – producers Christos Gartaganis, Panos Bisdas / Authorwave,
Kyriakos Chatzimichailides / T – short Financial Support Hellenic Broadcasting
Corporation (ERT), Greek Film Center (GFC) With the kind support of Ioannis F.
Kostopoulos Foundation Powered by Plaisio Sales & Festival co-ordination
Vassilis Konstandopoulos Official Airline Sponsor Aegean Airlines With the
support of Alliance for Greece (Symmahia gia tin Ellada) With the support of
ASIFA HELLAS


PRODUCERS / COPRODUCERS


SPONSORS


WITH THE SUPPORT OF



AWARDS & NOMINATIONS

AWARDS NOMINATIONS

2017 Cartoon Club (Rimini, Italy) – Cartoon Cub award Best International Short
Animation

2017 Greek Film Academy Awards - “Iris” award for Best Animation film of 2016

2016 National short film festival in Drama - Special Mention of Artistic and
Technical Achievement

2016 International short film festival in Drama - Best Animation Award

Syros, Greece – Best Greek speaking film of international competition

2017 Annecy International animated film festival (France) - Official competition
- International Premiere

2017 Encounters short film festival (Bristol, UK) – Official Competition (UK
Premiere)

Ιnterfilm 2017 short film festival (Berlin, Germany) – Official Competition

(Seoul, Korea) – Official Competition - Asian Premiere

Goias, Brasil – Official Competition - South American Premiere

2017 Split Film Festival (Split, Croatia) – Official Competition (Croatian
Premiere)

2017 Balkanima European animated film festival (Belgrade, Serbia) – European
Panorama (Serbian Premiere)

2017 Fest Curtas Belo Horizonte film festival (Belo Horizonte, Brasil) –
Official Competition

2017 Festival Filmlets (Bandalona, Spain) – Official Competition (Spanish
Premiere)

2017 Linoleum festival of contemporary animation and media art (Kiev, Ukraine) –
Official Competition (Ukrainian Premiere)

2017 Festival Cinema Del’ Arte (Milan, Italy) – Official Competition

2017 Pacific Meridian film festival (Vladivostok, Russia) - In the open (Russian
Premiere)

2017 Festival film fund of Otranto (Otranto Italy) – Official competition

2017 Animatou international animation film festival (Geneve, Switzerland) –
Official competition (Swiss premiere)

2017 Festival De Sevillia (Seville, Spain) – Short Matters!

2017 Anim’ est international animation film festival (Bucharest, Romania) –
Trippy animation night (Romanian Premiere)

2017 Banja Luka international animation festival (Banja Luka, Bosnia –
Herzgovina) – Official competition (Bosnian Premiere)

2017 Cinanima animation festival (Espinho, Portugal) – International Panorama
(Portuguese Premiere)

2017 Wiesbaden Animation Wochenende (Wiesbanden, Germany) – Official Competition
(German Premiere)

2017 Konstanze Kurz Film Spiele (Konstanze, Germany) – Official Competition

Reanimania (Yerevan, Armenia) – Official Competition


REVIEWS

MANUELA CERNAT, (Grand Temoin of International short film festival in Drama)

The jewel of the crown was by far the fabulous Greek production Aenigma ,
sophisticated tribute to painter Theodoros Pantaleon and to the golden times of
one of the most important and fascinating moments of twentieth century European
Art –Surrealism. Amazing both in terms of production and stylistic refinement,
this 3D animation is not only strongly visually appealing but also
intellectually rewarding.

JURY OF DRAMA INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL

This film quite simply blew us all away! It was a visual feast yet it also
achieved a remarkable level of emotional depth as it made the paintings of
Theodoros Pantaleon come alive; always moving and expanding our horizons… we
found ourselves delighted from our own various vantage points as only a great
film can do. Behind it all was a powerful historical story of the subjection of
women.

THEODORE PANTALEON (Painter)

It the sorcery of the film that captures inextricably the viewer, arousing a
flow of associations, thrills and new enigmas.

ROVIROS MANTHOULIS (Film director)

We are rarely happy to see such a cinematographic feat (and not only in Greece),
charged with modern therapeutic poetry and ancient Greek mist. Aris dear, this
is your superb film which will stay in history. We are not able to see often a
work in which intention, conception, inspiration, content, style, execution and
certainty coincide, without any kind of shortfall. Your film may be of “short
duration”, but it looks like covering miles and miles, jumping over the
mountains, despite Aristotle’s’ line in “Poetics” that something like that is
not proper. Bravo!

GIORGOS ARVANITIS (Cinematographer)

The day I watched this film, my aesthetics changed. I faced an enigma to solve:
What is superior, the aesthetic or the technique? The film is perfect
aesthetically as well as technically.

NIKOS KAVOUKIDES (Film director, Cinematographer, Producer)

I have been six decades in Greek cinema and I have never watched anything
better! This is not an enigma, it is a paradigm.

KATERINA KOSKINA (Director of the Greek Museum of Modern Art)

The film explores the correlation between cinema and visual arts thoroughly. It
is the first time that such a perfect result is succeeded, at least in Greece.

GIORGOS KOUROUPOS (Composer, Musician)

A happy occasion, with four artists working together successfully.

YIANNIS MEDZIKOV (Visual artist, Costume designer, Set Designer)

It is a really surprising experience! The film calls us to get near it and to
lose ourselves in shapes and colors which can not be found around us, existing
only inside the hearts of people.

PANAGIOTIS KYRIAKOULAKOS (Lecturer in Department of Computer Animation – Aegean
University, Vice president of ASIFA HELLAS)

That this film is a masterpiece is not a secret. It can travel Greece abroad.

ELIAS GEORGIOPOULOS (Danaos Cinema Owner, Distributor)

It is a really unique cinematic experience that I want to share with the
spectators of Danaos cinema.


DIRECTORS’ NOTE

The ten-minute long surrealistic 3D AENIGMA originated from the cinematic
outfall of fine painting and essays to portrait how a par excellence conjectural
motion picture stirs emotion and thrills. We’re altogether delving deep into the
uncharted domain of conjectural dramaturgy, where exploration preconditions some
serious experimentation, inspiration and luck. It is a field ruled by the poetic
codes of painting, escaping, daydreaming, introspection, coherent association,
insight, ambiguity, intuition and an overbearing surrealistic call for inner
expression, emancipation of spiritual forces and the complete bringing down of
any dividing screen between conscious and subconscious, between dream and
reality.

ANTONIS NTOUSSIAS - Biography

Born in 1962. Graduated from University of Athens (Physics department). Studied
design, painting and digital imaging as well as multimedia programming. One of
the Greek pioneers of 3D design, 3D moving imaging and more recently VR.
Selected Filmography:AS DIRECTORGame over (3D animated short) 2000
Aenigma (3D animated short) 2016AS ART DIRECTOR- SUPERVISOR OF COMPUTER
GRAPHICSMoney -–A mythology of Darkness (animated feature, 3D technique) 1998AS
ANIMATORTheogonia (animated short, 3D technique) 1995SPECIAL EFFECTSMeteors
(Greek feature film) 2004
Emma Blue (Canadian feature film) 2007
Biloba (Greek feature film) 2009

ARIS FATOUROS - Biography

Born in 1962. Studied Physics in University of Athens, Political Science in
Panteion University of Athens and film direction in Stavrakos film school. He
has worked as production manager, executive producer and film director. Since
2002 he has been program consultant in the Television channel of Greek
Parliament.Selected Filmography (as director)Make up (short film - fiction) 1994
Volcano (short film - fiction) 2003
This is London 1939 – 2005 (short film – documentary) 2006
Aenigma (short film – animation) 2016




AFTERIMAGE BY ARIS FATOUROS

IN THE PLACE OF A SCRIPT

Chaos
of colours and shades
the swaying wings of an angel
awaking of
the Maiden
in the garden of dreams
chimerical birds
and Siamese creatures
hybrids of matter and life
in utopian entanglement
fruits of passion
and luscious ornaments
ethereal apparel
carnivorous flowers
impetuous phalluses
and occult vaginas
inseminating the muse
the ideal
Figure
of timeless Eve

intoxicating fragrances
and magic spells
sublime sounds and chants
phones and phonemes
of some incoherent tongue
petrified words
praising the blasphemous goddess
Art and the clones
fragile reflections
upon heavenly mirrors
inverted images
on the pupil of the eye
desolate scenery
bloodstained rugs
dying rattle
castrated bodies
ripped umbilical cords
of time and memory
weeping, fiendishly mourning
in awe and horror
the rifts of the mask
the decay of beauty
the suspended downfall
in the sacred amnesia
of the eternal water
alchemic dream
fusion element
entropy explosion
in the Mind’s resonator

IN THE PLACE OF A SYNOPSIS

ode
to the reproductive circle
of the Figure
daughter of chaos
fiendishly moulded
through the barren fertility
of unnatural union
between organic with inorganic
fauna with flora
in honour of the feminine archetype
carving of time
holy memorial erecting
with sepulchral ornaments
a downfall
in the novel space
of perpetual dreaming


MEDIA

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AENIGMA INTERNATIONAL TRAILER
AENIGMA IN MICHALIS CACOYIANNIS FOUNDATION
ANTONIS NTOUSSIAS – ARIS FATOUROS
THEODORS PANTALEON (PAINTER)
ROVIROS MANTHOULIS (FILM DIRECTOR)
GIORGOS ARVANITIS (CINEMATOGRAPHER)
KATERINA KOSKINA (DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL MUSEUM OF MODERN ART)
GEORGE KOUROUPOS (COMPOSER, MUSICIAN)
YANNIS MEDZIKOV (VISUAL ARTIST, SET DESIGNER)
MARIOS ARISTOPOULOS (COMPOSER)
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PHOTO GALLERY




CONTACT


CONTACT LIST

Sales & festivals contact Vassilis Konstandopoulos
aenigma.3d.shortfilm@gmail.com +30 6973092235 Production Steficon - Michael
Sarantinos msarantinos@steficon.gr +30 210 6754413 Director – Screenwriter –
Animator – Art Director – Editor Antonis Ntoussias adonisdouss@yahoo.com
Director – Screenwriter – Creative Producer Aris Fatouros
fatourosaris@hotmail.com Original music – Sound Design Marios Aristopoulos
msoundtracks@gmail.com Inspired by the paintings of Theodoros Pantaleon