Experiencing Interruptions?

El escritor ciego (The Blind Writer)

The drawings of this film were made blindfolded, that is, without looking at them while drawing but using only tactile cues. This constraint deconstructs the individual drawings, which are then assembled into a whole in the viewer's mind. The film gropes along like a blind man. This reflects the writer’s perplexity, who questions dogmas and certainties. Faced with the complexity of the world, eternal questions concerning the relationships among people, political and metaphysical questions arise:
- Who created the universe?
- God.
- And who created God?
Faced with ready-made ideological answers, the writer admits his helplessness, his blindness is more metaphorical than real. What does “see” mean? Does what we see, the appearance, reflect reality? The viewer is called to provide his/her own answer. S/he is the one who will have to decide, as his perception does, by assembling the disparate lines of the drawings in order to make them meaningful.
In a world where communication has acquired special significance, where images and views are constructed on order, how can one discern what is substantial?
Is the candy edible or its colourful wrapping? The orange or its peel?
Paradoxically, the answer is not as simple as it appears.

  • Georges Sifianos
    Director
  • Georges Sifianos
    Writer
  • Georges Sifianos
    Producer
  • Jeanne Peylet Frisch
    Key Cast
  • Malo Martin
    Key Cast
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    L’écrivain aveugle
  • Project Type:
    Animation, Experimental, Short, Other
  • Runtime:
    9 minutes 50 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    August 19, 2021
  • Country of Origin:
    Greece
  • Country of Filming:
    France, Greece
  • Language:
    French
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16/9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
  • Festival del Cinema di Cefalù
  • 10th International Video Poetry Festival Athens
  • One Earth Awards
  • Hiroshima_Animation_Season_2022
  • Annecy Short film official selection 2022
  • Animafest Zagreb 2022 Programme "From the masters workshops"
  • Bologna in Lettere 10th – Videopoetry Semi-Finalist.
  • Athens ANIMFEST 2022 1st Prize Experimental

    1st Prize Experimental
  • T-Short Animated Film Online Festival 2022 Jury Diploma
  • ROFİFE official selection 2022
  • MONSTRA | Lisbon Animation Festival official selection 2022

    official selection 2022
  • ANIMAC, the International Animated Film Festival, Lleida official selection 2022
  • IFEFA-International film & Entertainment festival Australia Quarter Finalist
  • INQRVENTION official selection 2022
  • Brazil New Visions Film Fest
  • International Film Festival of Larissa
  • Parvaz International Film Festival Tehran
  • 25. International Film Festival ZOOM – ZBLIŻENIA
  • Paradise Film Festival Budapest
  • Tbilisi 2nd International Short Film Internet Festival "Diogenes 2021"
  • 5th INTERNATIONAL FOLKLORE FILM FESTIVAL 2022@INDIA
  • Hungarian Disability Film Festival Budapest
  • Ojo Móvil Fest 2021
  • Xposure International Photography & Film Festival: Nominee
  • IMARP - Mostra Internacional de dança - Imagens em Movimento - Video dança
  • Mykonos Biennale September 28, 2021
  • 4th Multicultural Film Festival, Toronto 2021
  • Sessions By Lift-Off Global Network
  • SIETAR Europa Virtual Institute Film Festival 2021
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  • Georges Sifianos
Director Biography - Georges Sifianos

Georges Sifianos, born in Greece, holds a PhD in animation aesthetics from the University of Sorbonne. He is a filmmaker and professor emeritus of animation at ENSAD in Paris, where he founded the Department of Animation Studies in 1995. He has lectured worldwide including universities in Europe, India, Korea, Japan and China.
As a member of PSL academic research group, SACRe (EA 7410), he is interested in the renewal of forms of animation cinema, particularly from the point of view of cognitive science. The blindfolded animation approach employed in “The blind writer” is part of this research. His other recent research interest concerns animation forms found on the Parthenon’s Frieze. His book Aesthetics of Animated Cinema received the 2014 "McLaren - Lambart" award for the best academic book by the Society for Animation Studies and the "Hemingway Grant" in 2015.
His filmography includes the films:
• “SMILE” (1974), animated short film. 2’.
• “PETROCHEMICALS, THE CATHEDRALS OF DESERT” (1981), feature-length documentary, in co-direction with Stathis Katsaros. 80’.
• “SCENT OF CITY” (1994), animated short film. 8.30’.
• “TUTU” (2001), animated short film, co-directed with Pascal Dalet. 26’.
• “EGO” (2007), animated short film. 12’.
• “THE BLIND WRITER” (2021), animated short film. 9.50’.

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