Story / Storyboard Artist
Elpida Panourgia
Direction
Elpida Panourgia
Design / Layout / Concept Art / Backrounds
Elpida Panourgia
2D Traditional Animation
Elpida Panourgia
Photography / Coloring / Effects / Editing
Elpida Panourgia
Production
Elpida Panourgia / Athens / Greece / 2014
Music
Bill Korakas
End Credits Song
Nikos Spiliotis
Sound Correction / Orchestration
Giannis Sakketos
Sound Design
Nikos Spiliotis / Elpida Panourgia / Nick Panourgias
We, ourselves, define time.
Ora, is a young ballerina, who has a very weird relationship with time. For her, the big clock that she is staring every-day on the walls of the theater is the ruler not only of her dance, but of her life as well. Only when the clock stops, does she realize that clocks cannot define time, we are.
Ora, our main character, is a talented ballet dancer. Every day for Ora is pretty much the same. The same routine over and over again, faster and faster, the same steps that seem to go nowhere, the same clock on the theater’s wall ruling her whole life. One day, as Ora was doing her routine, the clock breaks. Ora, desperately looks at the pieces of the broken clock, without knowing how she would continue her practice without it. While she was crying above the clock’s pieces, the gears of the clock become alive and suddenly Ora enters the world of time. Ora starts to run as fast as she can, with her body stiff as wood from anxiety and fear, in order to escape from the monster of TIME that is after her. But when she turns back in order to see the monster’s face, she sees nothing else but a monster wearing her own face. Only then does she understand that it is not that monster to blame for her anxiety and fear of time, but herself. She is the one who created the stress in her mind. After cutting the ropes and connections with her old self, she starts to live a life in which she is able to define her time and how she wants to live every moment.
2D Traditional Animation
Drawing – Inking on paper
Concepts / 2D Background creation
Markers on paper
Coloring of the Animation Drawings
Adobe Photoshop CS4
Effects / Shadows / Lighting
Hand drawn on Paper / Adobe Photoshop CS4 & After Effects
Editing
Adobe Premiere Pro
TIME’s journey in animation begun in April 2010, when Elpida Panourgia, its director, decided to make a 2d short film in order to tell a story about her greatest fear, TIME. The story of the animation does a big cycle starting in the present, going to the past and ending to the present again, like the rotation of a clockwise. The story unfolds with the help of a gear, a part of a clock that breaks due to its working overload. Like human beings actually “break” due to anxiety and the crazy dancing rhythm of their everyday lives. Time becomes a living nightmare and a villain at the same time, a nonsensical world in space but also a living, scaring, monstrous being that drains a human’s happiness and liveliness. Anxiety transforms humans’ souls and bodies to stiff, wooden puppets. But is TIME the real enemy that people should fear, or is it their own self that actually hides beneath that fearful creature? Only when people realize that this fear is actually created inside their minds, they can become friends with time and are able to treasure every moment of their lives.
Rising Star Award:
Animation Competition 2015, Canada International Film Festival
12th April 2015
Vancouver, Canada
canadafilmfestival.com
Diamond Award:
Animated Film Competition 2014, California Film Awards
30th December 2014
California, USA
calfilmawards.com
Best Short Animation Award:
Filme Short Film Festival
10th May 2014
Thessaloniki, Greece
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Silver Award:
Best Animator for Animation Film, Filmmakers of The Year Film Festival
30th November 2014
Russian Culture Center, Jakarta
filmmakersoftheyear.com
Award of Merit:
Animation, The Indie Film Awards 2014
21th November 2014
Villa La Jolla, USA
theindiefest.com
Diamond Award:
International Independent Film Awards
8th October 2014
Encino, CA, USA
iifilmawards.com
Award of Merit:
Animation, Best Shorts Competition
26th September 2014
La Jolla, California, USA
bestshorts.net
2015 Florida Movie Festival:
Official Participation (shortlist) – Finalist for «Women Directed / Produced (D/P)»
18th April 2015
Maitland Orlando, Florida, USA
floridamoviefestival.com
2015 Canada International Film Festival:
Official Participation (shortlist)
12th April 2015
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
canadafilmfestival.com
8th International Children’s film Festival Bangladesh 2015:
Official Participation (shortlist)
24th January 2015
Dhanmondi Dhaka, Bangladesh
cfsbangladesh.org
2015 California Women’s Film Festival:
Official Selection
23th January 2015
North Hollywood, CA, Jet Studios, USA
calwomensfest.com
2014 California Film Awards:
Official Participation (shortlist)
30th December 2014
California, USA
calfilmawards.com
2014 Filmmakers of the Year Film Festival:
Official Participation (shortlist)
27th November 2014
Russian Culture Center, Diponegoro, Jakarta
filmmakersoftheyear.com
The Indie FEST Film Awards 2014:
Official Participation (shortlist)
21st November 2014
Villa la Jolla, CA, USA
theindiefest.com
Ohio Independent Film Festival 2014:
Official Participation (shortlist)
8th November 2014
Atlas Cinemas, Ohio, Lakeshore Blvd, USA
ohiofilms.com
TOFF – The Online Film Festival:
Official Participation (shortlist)
4th November 2014
Atlas Cinemas, Ohio, Lakeshore Blvd, USA
facebook.com/toffilmfest
International Independent Film Awards (Fall 2014):
Official Participation (shortlist)
16th October 2014
Santa Monica, Los Angeles, USA
iifilmawards.com
International Animation Festival and Forum “AnimaSyros 7.0”:
Official Participation (shortlist)
4th October 2014
Hermoupolis. Syros, Greece
animasyros.gr
