Two days for the xperimental spirits

Cyprus’ Pantheon Xperimental Film & Animation Festival opens November 27

Celebrating its 8th year, the Pantheon International Xperimental Film & Animation Festival continues to pioneer within the experimental scene of Cyprus, while the Pantheon Cultural Association in Nicosia strives to enforce its annual festival into a globally well established entity which will continue to keep standards and a niche to those interested in the field. The 8th edition of the festival was embraced by 136 artists and runs for two days, November 27 and 28, at the Pantheon Gallery and Pantheon Tritos on the third floor.

Following the success of the previous experimental film festivals, the experimental music (Sonic Arts) and the Urban Soul Festival, the Pantheon Cultural Association is quickly establishing itself as the official playground for Cypriot and International experimentalists.

Forty-six works from around the world will be screened at the gallery and Tritos, which will be transformed into an “xperimental” cinema theatre, where viewers will enjoy the films along with drinks and a music set that will develop at the end of the screenings. The festival will be joined by a group experimental video and animation exhibition entitled Shootings on Mirrors by artists Nikoletta Karayiorgi, Aggela Chimona and Chrysanthy Christoforou.

The participants of the Xperimental festival have each developed their own unique style of film producing an atmospheric result either technically, visually, or through a given concept. The beauty of experimental films lies within its final result, and its result can best be described as removing boundaries and limits within art. The festival’s main aim, throughout its brief but successful history, has been to give creative people of all kinds a medium and an opportunity to let them show the Cyprus audience their own personal visions through film.