The posters of the 27th Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival (6-16/3/2025) bear the signature of painter Dimitris Anastasiou.
The reasoning behind the posters of the 27th TiDF:
The figures portrayed in the three paintings that make up the posters of the 27th Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival embark on a journey across the Greek landscape, but also to the cities of the future. Without us ever taking a glance on their faces, the people in the Festival’s posters look ahead, towards what is coming up next. The three paintings converse with the tributes and the thematics of this year’s Festival. In the artist’s words: “The three paintings compose a three-fold narrative. If placed aligned, each serves as a continuation of the previous one. The two first (that depict a field of land and a provincial Greek town of the 1960s) allude to the Greek landscape. The third one (that portrays an absurd and imaginary city, whether utopian or dystopian) nods to Artificial Intelligence. Viewers, like time travelers, move within these landscapes.”
The artist’s profile:
Dimitris Anastasiou was born in Athens, in 1979, and studied at the Athens School of Fine Arts. He has hosted four solo exhibitions, while also having taken part in more than 50 collective exhibitions in Greece and abroad (Russia, Cyprus), as well as in international fairs in Greece, Spain, Switzerland and Germany. His graphic novel titled Α=-Α, released in Greek by Kaleidoscope Publications, and in English by Jonathan Cape publishing firm, having achieved great international success. His work has also been hailed by Wetransfer, labeled as exploring the “singularities and the illusions of contemporary life.”
