About

Eirini Vianelli (1985) is an award winning director / animator based in Athens Greece.

She studied Graphic Design (BAHons) at the University of the Arts London (Camberwell) in 2007 and received an MFA in Experimental Animation from the California Institute of the Arts in 2017. She is an Onassis Foundation Scholar.

Her short film Icebergs was Oscar qualified for 2018 after winning best animation short in San Francisco Film Festival. In 2018 she created the animation that works as a set for the Greek National Opera show of Lena Platono’s the Emperor’s Nightingale. Since then she has continued her work with the GNO with the Animal Assembly and Don Quichote ballet, while continuing to develop her personal films.

In 2018 she became an ARTWORKS fellow.

She works independently as an animator and director in films, music videos and commercials. She is always on the look out for new collaborations and would be very happy to hear from you :)

Interview by Alexander Strecker

Icebergs wins best animated short at SFFILM 2018, qualifying for 2019 academy awards. The jury found Icebergs to be “like looking through the windows of a high-rise — Eirini Vianelli’s short weaves together the small, funny, mundane, and most important moments of its characters’ lives, presenting only snippets of what are full, complex people: the human condition in ten minutes.”

interview at vice gr

cartoon brew write up

Interview at flix gr

flix gr

interview at athens voice gr

Zippy frames