Private Project

THEOX

The aged inhabitants of an imaginary land are going through a tough test. As they are only peasants, they are forced to transform their earth into a golden kingdom by adding a magic fertiliser to their crops. Secluded from any social interaction they can do nothing but accept the commands ordered by the power. The only one who resists? A little girl free from the fear dominating the entire kingdom... The overturn has already begun.

  • Giorgos Nikopoulos
    Director
    Butter Bunny and his Grape must Cookies
  • Giorgos Nikopoulos
    Writer
  • Giorgos Nikopoulos
    Producer
  • Dimitris Politis
    Key Cast
    "Old Man"
  • Natali Mandila
    Key Cast
    "Ox"
  • Nancy Manatou
    Key Cast
    "Girl"
  • Isidora Zolota
    Key Cast
    "Old Woman"
  • Natassa Karalia
    Key Cast
    "Angel"
  • Spiros Skordos
    Key Cast
    "Controller"
  • Dimitra Trypani
    Original Music
  • Nikos Kokkalis
    Masks
  • Giorgos Gargalas
    Sound Design
  • Project Type:
    Animation, Experimental, Feature
  • Runtime:
    1 hour 7 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    October 8, 2017
  • Country of Origin:
    Greece
  • Country of Filming:
    Greece
  • Language:
    Modern Greek (1453-)
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    2.39:1
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • 58th Thessaloniki International Film Festival
    Thessaloniki
    Greece
    November 9, 2017
    Worldwide Premiere
  • 3rd FICMARC - Caribbean Sea International Film Festival
    Pampatar
    Greece
    January 12, 2018
    Best Experimental Feature Film
  • 13th Athens Animfest
    Athens
    Greece
    March 17, 2018
  • DFK New Wave 2018
    Kolkata, West Bengal
    India
    March 30, 2018
    Indian Premiere
    Best International Feature Animation
  • DFK New Wave 2018
    Kolkata, West Bengal
    India
    March 30, 2018
    Indian Premiere
    Best Original Score
  • DFK New Wave 2018
    Kolkata, West Bengal
    India
    March 30, 2018
    Indian Premiere
    Best Sound Design
  • San Antonio Independent Film Festival
    Imbadura
    Ecuador
    April 4, 2018
    BEST EXPERIMENTAL FEATURE
  • Tlanchana Fest
    Metepec
    Mexico
    April 13, 2018
    Official Selection
  • Inca Imperial International Film Festival
    Lima
    Peru
    May 18, 2018
    Official Selection
  • AUDIOVISUAL Arts Festival
    Corfu
    Greece
    June 10, 2018
    Special Screening
  • Montevideo World Film Festival
    Montevideo
    Uruguay
    July 12, 2018
    Official Selection
  • Experimental Forum
    Los Angeles
    United States
    July 20, 2018
    Honorable Mention
  • Sacramento Underground Film & Arts Festival
    Sacramento
    United States
    August 4, 2018
    Official Selection
Director Biography - Giorgos Nikopoulos

Giorgos Nikopoulos (1987, Katerini, Greece) studied Audio & Visual Arts focusing on animation and performing arts. He has performed as an actor in theatre and worked as a director assistant with Dimos Avdeliodis from 2010 to 2013. In 2014 he founded BAUBO Productions and completed his first animation short film Butter Bunny and his Grape must Cookies. Since October 2013 he is a PhD Candidate at Ionian University researching shadow theatre and animation as two kindred arts.

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Director Statement

THEOX is an attempt to interpret and see through the crucial situation in which a large part of the planet has been in for the past years. The initial idea was conceived in 2011-2012 in Athens, where the signs of the economic crisis were irrefutable and harsh. With Midas’ myth and its symbolic elements as a starting point this play resembles shadow puppetry. All the characters are performed by people and represented as shadow symbols, like ancient forms that draw their inspiration from a wide range of civilizations in which these elements were used, from the ancient Greek black-figure pottery to the shadow play in Bali and the Japanese Bunraku. This way I tried to create a new language from which I took away speech and kept only the primitive physical narration, giving this film the ability to address the widest range of recipients possible around the world.