PYTHEAS TRAVELS (2023) - Vfx & Animation

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.