Split Apart

Split Apart

Zina Papadopoulou, Petros Papadopoulos

Louizos Aslanidis

Greece

Indie Shorts Awards Cannes
Cannes, France
France
November 7, 2020
World
HONORABLE MENTION Best Female Director, Best Actor, Best Actress
New York Cinematography AWARDS (NYCA)
New York
United States
November 22, 2020
United States
Best Sound
Asian Cinematography AWARDS (ACA)
Manila
Philippines
November 30, 2020
Asian
Best Director, Best Cinematography, Best Experimental Short Film
Golden Wheat Awards
Instanbul
Turkey
February 1, 2021
Best Experimental
European Cinematography AWARDS (ECA)
Amsterdam
Best Sound
Canadian Cinematography Awards (CaCA)
Toronto
Best Experimental, Best Sound
New Wave Short Film Festival
Munich
Germany
Best Experimental Film
Madrid Film Awards
Madrid
Spain
Best Soundtrack

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Zina Papadopoulou
Director
Eight-minute Deadline, Bloody Mary
Petros Papadopoulos
Director
Eight-minute Deadline
Zina Papadopoulou
Writer
Grigoris Grigoropoulos
Writer
Grigoris Grigoropoulos
Music & Sound Design
Harisma, Evil in the time of Heroes, Eight-minute Deadline, Bloody Mary
Louizos Aslanidis
Producer
Thanos Lekkas
Key Cast
Kitty Paitazoglou
Key Cast
Christos Douros
Director of Photography
Hara Kotsali
Choreographer
Stavros Liokalos
Set Designer
Alkistis Mamali
Costume Designer
Stephanos Mangriotis
Still Photographer

In a single-tone, vertical city, a lonely man. He stands out as he stands out from his selves. Divided, split. Trying to fit in, to synchronize.

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Zina Papadopoulou is an independent animator and director. She studied Graphic Design and took her Master’s degree in Animation at the Utrecht School of the Arts, the Netherlands.

Petros Papadopoulos is a Greek director and animator. He studied Technology of Graphic Arts at the Technological Educational Institute of Athens. After finishing his MA in Digital Moving Image at London Metropolitan University, he worked in the field of TV advertising.
Director Statement

I tend to think a lot in visual terms, so I was walking down the street together with my brother brainstorming ideas about interesting situations. We came up with the idea of a man who is divided and cannot control his body, he splits visually and cannot synchronize with himself.

Having no dialogue was challenging, we had to focus on the body language. Together with a choreographer and the actor, we designed his every movement: from the way he walks, to the way he moves his fingers.

We did want to stay in line with an idea about a non-descriptive world, a place that has no space or time. The outer world is flat blue animated layers of skyscrapers, a cold city without details. Most of the plot is inside the apartment of the main character, the inner world, situated on the upper floor of a skyscraper: A gray apartment with damaged walls and detailed, neoclassical architecture.