"Red Lion" by Oh. Selected to Participate in the Paleochora Lost World Short Film Festival

“Red Lion” by Oh. Selected to Participate in the Paleochora Lost World Short Film Festival

International & Greek Short Films in SW Crete

“Red Lion” was selected to participate in Paleochora Lost World Short Film Festival, 1-5 June 2019 in Paleochora, Crete.

The 1st Paleochora Lost World Short Film Festival takes place 1-5 June 2019. The VIP judging panel includes director and cinematographer Susan Kucera who is currently working with Academy award winner actor Jeff Bridges on documentary “Living in the Futures Past”. Bruno Chatelin the co-founder of FilmFestivals.com and who was responsible for the launch of over 250 films during his tenure as Marketing Director and Managing Director for Columbia TriStar Films and Twentieth Century FOX. Paul McGuirk author and lecturer in film studies at undergraduate and postgraduate level in University College Dublin, Trinity College Dublin and The National Film School at IADT.

Oh. aka Olivia Hadjiioannou Film Festival Paleochora Lost World Short Film Festival

The First Paleochora Lost World Short Film Festival launches in June 2019 in Crete. The festival focuses on short films of all genres which great storytelling. The ‘Lost World’ of Paleochora nestles between the Mountains and Sea in South West Crete and is the perfect location for Filmmakers to convene to show their work, network with colleagues and enjoy our fabulous Cretan hospitality. The festival also presents a keynote on Film Festival Strategy by Film Festival veteran Bruno Chatelin of filmfestivals.com and a Masterclass with Q&A by Chania based INDIGO VIEW Film Production Team.

Linda McGuire – Festival Director

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RED LION

The numinous Red Lion illuminates the road of the warrior goddess Metallia to restore the ever-present multidimensional vision long lost to humanity.

Red Lion has the inner Fire but only in potential. He eats matter when given his freedom and does the work of Nature. He inspires intelligence, imagination and life but he can not escape the prison of the Earth plane and can not free himself though his own power. A special key is necessary to dissolve the chains of the Earth.

Director/composer Olivia Hadjiioannou (aka Oh.) presents a consciousness-expanding visual and acoustic odyssey within a multidimensional psychedelic landscape.

Inspired by scenes from Federico Fellini’s, “8 1/2”, Lewis Carroll’s, “Alice in Wonderland”, Maurice Sendak’s, “Where the Wild Things Are”, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s, “The Little Prince” and ancient Greek myth.

“Red Lion” is the first in a six-part series of animated music videos by the multi-instrumentalist, Oh. for the progressive metal album “Metallia“.

Directors Statement

We all want to have answers to the ultimate meaning of why we are here.
There’s a time when you need to set aside everything you already know. We collect experiences and impressions with our minds and this increases the presence of our soul.There is a duality not only without but within because the mind receives information from both the body and the spirit. If the connection is weak between the spirit and the mind – there is no possibility to see the whole or our state and place in existence. Our minds – our everyday consciousness is cluttered with judgements, repetition, echoes of apprehension and fear, debates and doubts. If left on its own without the guidance of spirit; we exist in a negative world, alienated, in conflict with reality.
This missing connection is at the core of all our physical, emotional and mental health issues.
There is a way to recover our initial state so we can truly begin our journey here as we were meant to.
We must isolate the thoughts, feelings and emotions produced by the physical body first. Then it will be possible to isolate the thoughts, feelings, and emotions that are given by our spirits. Once both are recognized, a vision of an ever-present state of awareness awakens on its own.
Metallia acoustically and visually narrates this very intimate personal spiritual and psychic journey. – Olivia Hadjiioannou aka Oh.

“If you put Kate Bush, Auf Der Maur, Ayreon, Chiasmata, Igorrr, old White Zombie and Amogh Symphony in a blender with several metronomes running different time signatures, add a healthy dash of thrash riffs to the proggy mix and baked the resulting mixture for several hours you probably wouldn’t even come close to the sound.” – Lee Davidson – Prog Metal Madness

<a href="http://music.olitunes.com/album/metallia">Metallia by Oh.</a>