Apodemy- Ένα βραβευμένο video από την εικαστικό Κατερίνα Αθανασοπούλου

Apodemy from Katerina Athanasopoulou on Vimeo.

Ένα βραβευμένο video από την εικαστικό Κατερίνα Αθανασοπούλου. Της απονεμήθηκε το κορυφαίο βραβείο ψηφιακών έργων τέχνης ανά τον κόσμο ( Lumen Prize για το 2013) που στοχεύει στην ανάδειξη αυτής της διαρκώς μεταβαλλόμενης μορφής τέχνης για το έργο της  «Αποδημία». Το έργο της, μια τρισδιάστατη ψηφιακή αλληγορία για την Αθήνα, παρουσιάστηκε για πρώτη φορά στους Εικαστικούς Διαλόγους του 2012 κατόπιν ανάθεσης της Στέγης Γραμμάτων και Τεχνών.

και το λιγκ μιας μικρής συνέντευξης για το πως προέκυψε το έργο:  http://popaganda.gr/katerina-athanasopoulou-apodemy/

 Katerina Athanasopoulou

Plato likens the human soul with a cage, where knowledge is birds flying. We’re born with the cage empty and, as we grow, we collect birds and they go in the cage for future use. When we need to access knowledge we put our hand in the cage, hunt for a bird – and sometimes catch the wrong one.

Ornithology uses the term “Zugunruhe” to describe the turbulent behavior of birds before they migrate, whether free or caged.

These two images, birds inhabiting the human soul and the distress of the migrating bird became the starting points for this film, commissioned on the theme of Emigration.

A flock of birds circles around and moves a cage vehicle, seeking escape from a city half finished and abandoned, with roads interrupted by fragments of fallen statues. Those hands are simultaneously the pursuit of knowledge and also the heroes/leaders of the past that we have rejected but are still haunting us.

In a time when Europe seems to be imploding, this is my portrait of Athens.

Awards:

The Lumen Prize 2013 lumenprize.com

Best Animation, London Greek Film Festival, UK 2013

Special Mention for a Greek Film, Animasyros Festival, Greece 2013

Nominated for the Peer Raben Music Award, SoundTrack_Cologne, Germany 2013

Screenings:

Aesthetica Short Film Festival, York, November 2013

Underwire Festival, London, November 2013

KLIK! Amsterdam Animation Festival, Holland, November 2013

Shnit International Short film festival, Switzerland, October 2013

Belo Horizonte International Film Festival, Brazil, September 2013

Animasyros Festival, Greece, September 2013

The Queen of Hungary, Landscape: Dislocation /Space / Place, UK, Spring 2013.

Femina Film Festival, Brazil, July 2013

Athens Video Art Festival, Athens, June 2013

Hong Kong Art Fair, Animation Club Screening, May 2013

MAshRome Film Fest, Rome, May 2013

60th Belgrade Documentary and Short Film Festival, Serbia, April 2013

Skepto International Film Festival, Sardinia, April 2013

Holland Animation Festival, Utrecht, March 2013

Flatpack Festival, Birmingham Museum & Gallery, UK, March 2013

Visual Dialogues (Installation), Plato's Academy Park, December 2012 - February 2013