Multidisciplinary collective of animators and designers based in Athens Greece.
In the midst of a searing heatwave, two little children find a way to cool everyone down!
A playful stop motion short film animated in a hybrid techique between cut out, claynimation and thousands of replacements pieces.
Written, Animated and Directed by
Fokion Xenos
Edited by
Stella Heath Keir
Cinematography by
Brenden Freedman
Produced by
Priya K. Dosanjh
Music by
Andreas Gutuen Aaser
Sound Design by
Kevin Langhamer
Production Design by
Antonio Niculae
Model Making by
Thanos Katzavelos
Character Design and Additional Animation
Alexandros Apostolakis
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NFTS
This is an anthology animation series created by Vassia Hadjiyannaki and Joan Zhonga that I had the pleasure to work as episode director and part of the animation creative team on every episode!
It was a very hard production to realize but we are very proud with the results!
Follow Γέγονε Fans for more details and behind the scenes video’s coming up!
Idea, Script
Vassia Hadjiyiannaki
Series Director, Cinematography, Animation
Joan Zhonga
Episodes Director, Animation, VFX, Editing, Art Direction
Fokion Xenos
Music by Theodoros Lebesis
Sound design by Vassilakis Vassilis
Post production and color grading by Dahouse Productions Konstantinos P. Kakarountas Maria Mavroeidi
Production executing by Neda film
Isavella Alopoudi & Amanda Livanou
Episodes teams
Lead Model maker
Thanos Kantzavelos
Art director Stefanos Pletsis St Pl
Vfx and Editing Athena Boutari
Illustrator Yorgos Sgouros
Modelmaking assistants
Avra Sotiropoulou
Daniela Machou
Νίκος Μπουρλούκας
Agelos Agelakis
Ralleia Milioti
Danae Peramatzeli
Laertis Tsiakos λαερ της
Dimitra Chasiaki
https://www.onassis.org/whats-on/pytheas-travels
Four musicians, a video with landscapes of Tinos and Northern Norway, a party on board, and AI developers meeting in the belly of a whale. A surrealistic cruise from the Mediterranean to the northern countries, with the journey of Pytheas the Greek—the unassailable explorer of antiquity—in its very center.
CREATED BY
HYPERCOMF AND MAJA S. K. RATKJE
ART DIRECTION & FILM DIRECTION
HYPERCOMF
MUSIC COMPOSITION
MAJA S. K. RATKJE
GREEK PERFORMING ENSEMBLE
ERGON ENSEMBLE: MANOS VENTOURAS (FRENCH HORN), ANDREAS-ROLANDOS THEODOROU (BASS TROMBONE), KONSTANTINOS PANAGIOTIDIS (VIOLIN), DIMITRIS TRAVLOS (CELLO)
NORWEGIAN PERFORMING
ENSEMBLE
TØYEN FIL OG KLAFFERI: HANNE JONES REKDAL (FLUTE/BASSOON), ELENA PERALES ANDREU (BASS CLARINET), EIRA BJØRNSTAD FOSS (VIOLIN), MARIANNE BAUDOUIN LIE (CELLO), TOVE MARGRETHE ERIKSTAD (CELLO/ONSTAGE OSLO)
OTHER MUSICIANS IN RECORDING
AMUND SJØLIE SVEEN, CRAIG SNOWDEN, RICHARD BURROWS
SPEAKERPHONE NARRATOR VOICE
GURI GLANS
NORWEGIAN PYTHEAS NARRATOR VOICE (NORWEGIAN VERSION)
TORBJØRN DAVIDSEN
GREEK PYTHEAS NARRATOR VOICE (GREEK VERSION)
KOSTAS BERIKOPOULOS
MUSICIANS’ RECORDING, ATHENS
JACOPO FOKAS AT ANTART STUDIOS
GREEK NARRATOR RECORDING STUDIO, ATHENS
BOUNCE MUSIC PRODUCTIONS / NASOS STERGIOU
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ANIMATION, MODELMAKING &
VFX BY
OUT . THERE
ANIMATION DIRECTION
FOKION XENOS
VFX DIRECTION & PRODUCTION DESIGN
STEFANOS PLETSIS
LEAD VFX ART & MODELMAKING
CHRISTOS PANAGIOTOU
VFX ASSISTANCE
YIANNIS RALLIS
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SHRIMP PUPPETMAKING
STATHIS MARKOPOULOS
ART DEPARTMENT ASSISTANCE
CHRISTOS FOUSEKIS, NIKOS MPOURLOUKAS & DIMITRA CHASIAKI
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DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY
ALEXANDROS TINIAKOS
COLORIST
DIMITRIS KARTERIS
MAKE-UP
SISSI PETROPOULOU
MODEL
IASONAS LAIOS
LIVE SOUND, VIDEO & LIGHT SYNCHRONIZATION
TROND KJELSÅS
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STAGE DESIGN CREDITS
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LIGHT DESIGN
ELIZA ALEXANDROPOULOU
COSTUME DESIGN
LITA KOKKONARI
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ONASSIS STEGI CREDITS
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SENIOR CONSULTANT
CHRISTOS CARRAS
TRANSMISSIONS PROGRAM GENERAL COORDINATION
THEODORA VOUGIOUKA, VERA PETMEZA
HEAD OF PRODUCTIONS
VASSILIS PANAGIOTAKOPOULOS
PRODUCER
DESPOINA SIFNIADOU
“Pytheas Travels” is a co-production of Onassis Stegi and Ultima Oslo Contemporary Music Festival (Norway), in the framework of the TRANSMISSIONS project, funded by the EEA Grants and the Norwegian Financial Mechanisms 2014-2021.
Two stowaway bugs explore European countries using a little girl’s suitcase as their Home and Vehicle. Every adventure starts when Little Pauline and her parents travel to a different european destination. The moment the suitcase is put on the ground Louis the Beetle and Jason the Ladybug get the chance to come out, meet the locals and explore! The possibilities for microscopic adventures are endless! From airports and ports to the city center. From museums to the mountain village and then sightseeing historical monuments. TRAVEL BUG’S unique mixed media technique allows children to experience how these destinations actually look ike, educating and entertaining at the same time!
- Target audience 4-8 years Old
- Stop Motion & Live Action technique
- 5 minutes, 26 Episodes
Really happy to share this small spot for International Animation Day 2023 by @asifa_hellas!
Join us at the event on the 30th of October @institutfrancaisgrece!
Lots of thanks and love to the people that helped me put this little film together in a week!
Color correction & Sound design: @konstantinos_kakarountasProp makers: @nikos_mpourloukas, @alex_mayestatico, @nefeltiti_ @_dimi_chas_ , @annou_oik
Big thanks to ASIFA Hellas for the opportunity, let’s hope we are gonna visit this busy highway again soon!
#animation #stopmotion #instaart #styrofoam #stopmotion_community #animator #traffic #tafficjam #internationalanimationday #iad #asifa #asifahellas #ballon
TACK by Vania Turner – 2024
https://www.onassis.org/culture/cinema/onassis-documentaries/tack-by-vania-turner-2024
An Onassis Culture production
The Olympian who pioneered Greece’s #MeToo movement inspires a younger athlete to come forward with her own abuse. In a milestone trial, Sofia stands with Amalia, who is seeking justice for her own abuse at the hands of her coach when she was a child.
FEATURING
SOFIA BEKATOROU, AMALIA PROVELENGIOU
PRODUCTION
ONASSIS CULTURE
DIRECTED, FILMED AND EDITED BY
VANIA TURNER
RESEARCH PRODUCER
MARIA SIDIROPOULOU
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS
AFRODITI PANAGIOTAKOU, DIMITRIS THEODOROPOULOS
EDITOR
NIKOLETA LEOUSI
ILLUSTRATION ARTIST
GEORGIA ZACHARI
ANIMATION AND COMPOSITING
FOKION XENOS, STEFANOS PLETSIS, GIANNIS RALLIS
MUSIC
NIKOS VELIOTIS
SOUND DESIGN AND SOUND MIXER
DIMITRIS MIYAKIS
COMMISSIONING PRODUCER
CHRISTOS SARRIS
SUPERVISING PRODUCER
AMANDA LIVANOU
COORDINATING PRODUCER
ELENA CHOREMI
LINE PRODUCERS
MARINA DANEZI, TASOS KORONAKIS
SUPERVISING PRODUCER ASSISTANT
KATERINA TZOUROU
Greek Distribution: CineDoc
International Distribution: Journeyman Pictures
Direction / Compositing : Fokion Xenos
Art Direction : Stefanos Pletsis
Animation : Christos Panagiotou, Yiannis Rallis
Editing : Yiannis Rallis
Direction / Compositing: Fokion Xenos
Art Direction: Stefanos Pletsis
Animation: Alexandros Apostolakis, Christos Panagiotou
Coloring: Christos Panagiotou, Yiannis Rallis
Sound design: Yiannis Spanos
Title card, Lettering: Natalia Qadreh
Special Thanks: Manos Angelakis
❝ I visited Japan in the winter of 2019, a few weeks before the outburst of the pandemic. What I had already been imagining about that place and what I learned in those ten days, November 22 to December 2, in Tokyo, in Nara and in Kyoto, is what I portray in this exhibition. In my painting, the ghosts of Japanese mythology become one with the ghosts in my mind. Personal stories, moments of inner struggle, and a constant excited curiosity prevail. I feel that I become, for a while, part of a riveting culture, and I try to share this chaos with someone who is not there. I am on my own, faced with millions of new stimuli, almost as many as the aerial cables of Tokyo and the sushi/kami in my paintings. I focus on the reasons that brought me to Japan, and I embark on a long, intense, but brief inner journey, in deafening noise and in total silence, which could be actually condensed to just one day: that walk to Nara from the hotel and the morning coffee on the way to the pagoda we had found closed the afternoon before, through the park with the deer, the tree trunks, the first temple, the spider, the forest, the crows, the first tree, the second tree, the second temple, the imposing brass Buddha and the pagoda which, again, closed down as soon as we arrived, evening already. In that long walk, strolling through the two devotional complexes, I thought of the harmonious coexistence around us of Shinto and Buddhism, shaped by their idiosyncrasies, the norms and the forms of the temples with their sharply contrasting characters; just like two people. Even now, I find this similitude between temples and people intriguing. I could be any one of those two temples. ❞ — Stefanos Rokos, December 2021
Credits Animation Concept/ Drawings by Stefanos Rokos
Direction/ Editing by Giorgos Gousis
Animation mentoring/ Post production by Fokion Xenos
Music soundtrack and sound design by Jim Sclavunos #stefanosrokos #thetwotemples
The Third Module of the Directing Animation Department at the National Film & Television School.
The Sound Design department create a one minute soundscape for the Directors to create a story that fits the track. No further information is given about the sound until the end of the shoot.
Design / Animation / Direction / Puppets : Fokion Xenos
Sound Design: Benjamin Goodall
Cinematography: Michael Filocamo
Editing: Chloe Hardwick
Production Design: Thanos Katzavelos, Sally Hugson
Model Making: Thanos Katzavelos, Angus Choy, Lisa Ott, Oliver Arnel Angles
A short Promo for the Greek Ejekt Festival 2015 and client Detox Events.
http://www.detoxevents.gr
Direction / Compositing : Fokion Xenos
Animation : Yiannis Rallis
Sound Editing & Sound Design: Vasilis Nissopoulos
Special Thanks to Manos Angelakis
written & directed by: yiannis veslemes
producers: yorgos tsourgiannis, christos v. konstantakopoulos
co-producers : eleni bertes, yiannis veslemes
director of photography: christos karamanis gsc
editor: yannis chalkiadakis
production design: yiannis veslemes
music: felizol
mixage: kostas varypombiotis
sound: dimitris kanellopoulos, persefoni miliou, valia tserou
costumes: alkistis mamali
make up artist: dora nazou
sfx: yorgos & roulis alahouzoi, michalis samiotis
Title animation: fokion xenos
visual fx: fokion xenos / ionas katrakazos / deepgreensea
line production: log line
trailer edited by petros silvestros
a horsefly production
in co-production with: faliro house productions
and
nerit, marni films, logline, deepgreensea, tugo tugo, 2|35, Kostas Varybopiotis
Colour, 2.44:1, 74’ DCP, Digital 5.1 Greece, 2014
“The Queue” is a sand rosrtum film about invading dark thoughts. First module of the Directing Animation Department at the National Film and Television.
Music and Sound Design: Andreas Gutuen Aaser
A motion graphics video clip commissioned for artist Manos Angelakis's debut album Goldfish Memory. A longer looped version accompanied the album presentation at six d.o.g.s live stage.
Manos Angelakis - Goldfish Memory (Official EP 2015)
Direction / Editing / Motion graphics: Fokion Xenos
Videography: Yiannis Rallis, Christos Panagiotou
Sound Design: Yiannis Spanos
Futuracha Pro is an Open Type Font that magically adjusts and readjusts as you write, based on the preceding and following letter - an exquisitely decorative font by høly that you’ll definitely fall for!
Support: holy.gd/futuracha
Contact: hello@holy.gd
º Bangies SøundStystem º
Bassment Live Sessiøn
Mixing & Mastering: Strof - Bangies
Camera: Øut There Studiøs (Yiannis Rallis - Fokion Xenos - Chris Panagiotou)
Videø Editing: Fokion Xenos - Bangies
Music: Bangies
https://www.facebook.com/BANGIES
https://soundcloud.com/bangies-band
A school project about zombies being bored in the 1950s.
Direction / Animation: Fokion Xenos
Animation / Character Design: Christos Panagiotou
Music : The Del Vikings
TEI of Athens 2012
Direction & Animation : Alexandros Apostolakis
Sound Design : Yiannis Spanos
Post Production & Compositing : Xenos Fokion
Music & Bayan : Maria Deli
Violin : Dionysis Vervitsiotis
Sound Mix & Master : Miyaki(movement.gr)
All Rights Reserved
Copyright © 2014 Athens
a short film written and directed by Efthimis Kosemund Sanidis
producer yorgos tsourgiannis
coproducers fabian gasmia, henning kamm
director of photography christos voudouris
editing yorgos mavropsaridis
art direction & costumes kiki pitta
makeup kiriaki mellidou
sound recordist dimitris kanellopoulos
sound design leandros ntounis
sound mixer torben seemann
production manager giannis karantanis
production coordinator despoina sifniadou
assistant director Haris Kontogiannis
2nd assistant director & script Elizampetta Ilia Georgiadou
vfx: ion katrakazos/ fokion xenos / deepgreensea
image processing 2|35
sound postproduction (de) chaussee filmton
junior producer (de) sara bökemeyer
a horsefly production in coproduction with detail film
and
nerit
deepgreensea
efthimis kosemund sanidis
with the support of nordmedia - film- und mediengesellschaft niedersachsen/bremen mbh
kuratorium junger deutscher film
greek film centre
supported by the municipality of molos/agios konstantinos
sponsored by elomas
participated at
μfilm 2012
sarajevo iff pack&pitch program 2011
Written, Directed, Edited and Produced by Nasos Gatzoulis
Starring: Dimitris Liolios, Thanos Alexiou, Iro Diamanti
Dop: Vassilis Klotsotiras
Music: Fleck
Sound mixer and Sound Design: George Aris Anastassopoulos
Production Designer and Costume Designer: Mahi Arvaniti
Production Manager: Giorgos Pergantos
First AD: Rozita Gatzouli
Casting: Christina Akzoti, Alex Kelly
Gaffer: Spiros Aggelopoulos
Vfx & Titles: Fokion Xenos
Make up: Magda Dimou
Boom operator: Thanasis Papageorgiou
First AC: Vaggelis Ntoumas
Production assistants: Panos Stellas, Kostas Hatziagapoglou, Minos Karalis, Fotis Papanikolaou
Camera Rental: Agent represents
A Ros Films Production
objecto diseño de lo cotidiano /// everyday object design
lo cotidiano como objeto de diseño /// everyday as the object of design
This project was created for the "Museo Nacional de Arte Decorativo" in Madrid, Spain.
Part of the Informanimation Erasmus Intensive Programme 2012 this video was created in a week period.
Credits
Fokion Xenos
Christin Marie Sundberg
Isobel Seacombe
Music by Battles
A writer gets lost in his creation as his personal life and work merge.
Result of a 3-day pixilation Workshop at the National Film and Television School.
Director/Animator: Fokion Xenos
Cinematographer: Sara Pantoli
Production Design: Qingling Zhang
Starring: Mathew Lee
Editing: Stella Heith Keir
Music and Sound Design: Andreas Gutuen Aaser
Gaffer: Luis Santos
National Film and Television School - April 2017
