The Pond
The Pond
A Short Film By Dimitris Argyriou, 2010
Awards:
- Nominated Best Film at Radical Democracy Video Challenge 2014
- "PEOPLE'S CHOICE AWARD" at 8th Niff- Naoussa International Film Festival at Moville Category
Official Selections in Festivals:
- Glastonbury Festival Short Film Festival 2016, UK, 23-25 June 2016
- Radical Democracy: European Video Challenge 2014
- Youth on the Move, Volos, Greece, 20 - 22 April 2013
- 'Bird City' Festival, Warsaw, Poland, 7 - 21 April 2013
- Once A Week Online Film Festival, USA, February, 2013
- ArtFools Video Festival, Larissa, Feb. 15-17, Greece, 2013
- 1st Online Short Film Festival for Balkan Filmmakers
-5th All Together Festival, Athens, Greece, 3-5 July 2012
- Before Talk to Me, Pre-Festival of Balkans Beyond Borders - Short Film Festival, Athens, 10th of July 2012
- Indiemand Online Short Film Festival, USA, June 2012
- 9th San Francisco Greek Film Festival, S.F., U.S.A., 7 - 13 May 2012
- Balkans Beyond Borders - Short Film Festival, Belgrade, Serbia, March 2012
- 8th Niff- Naoussa International Film Festival, Naoussa, Greece, 29 Sept -2 Oct. 2011
-Sapporo International Short Film Festival and Market, Japan, 5-10 Oct. 2011
-Balkans Beyond Borders - Short Film Festival, Athens, 2011, 20-22 June 2011
-1st Formentera Film - International festival of short films, documentaries and video art in Formentera, Spain, 2011
-6th Video Festival Citta di Imperia, Imperia, Italy, 2011
-5o Athens International Short Film Festival Psarokokalo, Short Film Market, Athens, Greece, 2011
-Watersprite-Cambridge International Student Film Festival , Cambridge, England, 2011
-26th Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Market 2011, Clermont-Ferrand, France
-KustFilmTag, Dusserdorf, Germany,2010
-12th International Panorama of Independent Film and Video Makers, Patra, Greece, 2010
-4th Thessaloniki International Short Film Festival 2010
- -#3nd in votes at Online Contest EMOVIE, #8th in finals.
-Official selection at "publicdigitalfestival.gr, 2010"
-5th Crash Festival, Thessaloniki, Greece, 2010
- GoShort Campus, International Short Film Festival, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, 2010
Screenings:
- Palia Mousiki, Kavala, Greece, 28 December 2013
- KinoBerlino, Moviemento Cinema, Berlin, Germany, 28 November 2013
- Kino in Batic,Wedding-Berlin, Germany, 21 November 2013
- Summer Media Studio, Juokrante, Lithuania, 29 June 2013
- KunstFilm bar Fitzcaldo, Kreuzberg,Berlin, 20 March 2013
Synopsis:
(Greek & French Below)
English:
The duck pond is a metaphor for E.U. and the ducks are the european members-countries.
When everything is fine, all the members-countries of our community interactive well together and they live in Harmony.
But what is happening when a problem comes to the surface?
Then the harmony falls apart and they are each for their own.
Ελληνικά:
Η λίμνη που ζουν οι πάπιες είναι μία μεταφορά για την Ευρωπαική Ένωση και οι πάπιες τα κράτη-μέλη. Όταν όλα βαίνουν καλώς, όλα τα κράτη-μέλη λειτουργούν αρμονικά μεταξύ τους. Αλλά τι γίνεται όταν προκύπτει ένα πρόβλημα? Τότε η αρμονία διαλύεται και ο καθένας κοιτάει το συμφέρον του.
French:
Le lac des canards est une métaphore pour l'Union Européenne, et les canards sont les pays européennes.Quand tous fonctionnent bien, tous les membres vivent et interagissent harmoniquement.Mais, que se passe quand un problème apparait?Dans ce cas, l'harmonie est interrompue, et tous prennent soin des ses mêmes.
Note of the author
All start when they asked me to make a teaser for a feature documentary about European Union.
That time the financial problems of Greece were the main topic in the european news and everybody asked me about the "crisis" in my country.
One day while I was sitting in the park, i saw some ducks fighting for a piece of bread, then I came with the idea about "The Pond".
Dimitris Argyriou
"With his video in which a voice claims two minutes to speak, Dimitris Argyriou responds to a contemporary-historical perspective on economic hierarchies and marginalized countries in Europe."
Kunstfilmtag :: Handschrift der Macht / Signature of Power
www.kunstfilmtag.de
"Can you explain the EU and relations between member-states in just 2 mins? Maybe if the EU was "The Pond"."
https://www.altcineaction.com/altcine/screening.action?film.filmId=28
"The Pond" has been created(Written,Shot & Edited) in 3 days (19-20-21 March 2010), during the "Go Short International Student Campus" in Nijmegen on March 2010.
First public screening on "Go Short International Film Festival, Nijmegen 2010".
Cast List:
A lot of ducks
Credit List:
Director: Dimitris Argyriou
Writer: Dimitris Argyriou
Cinematography: Dimitris Argyriou & Vincent van den Broek
Editing: Vincent van den Broek
Photography: Vincent van den Broek
Sound Editing: Vincent van den Broek
Voice Over: Tim Meijerink
Text of Voice Over: Marit Brom
Producer: Dimitris Argyriou
Thanks To Breaking Ground & Go Short Team
Thanks To Antonios Tzimas-Liosatos for the translation in French
More details in film's Facebook group:
https://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=110266682339225&v=info
