Educational Workshop

‘Optical Toys’

18-19 July 2024 at the Tomato Industrial Museum D. Nomikos

The Santorini Film Festival and the Tomato Industrial Museum, D.Nomikos are joining forces to co-organize an educational workshop, which will take place in the historic factory on 18 and 19 July during the 7th SFF.  This year the modern museum celebrates its 10th anniversary as part of the island’s cultural scene with a rich agenda of events and exhibitions and invites the Santorini Film Festival to become part of the celebrations. From 1945 to 1981 the Tomato Industrial Museum, “D. Nomikos” operated as a tomato processing factory. In 2014 it was transformed into a modern museum and and a wider cultural space with a rich exhibition that presents the island’s history and traditions.

Through the two-day workshop which will take place during the 7th SFF, the birth of Cinema meets the local history in the atmospheric premises of the museum on the Vlychada beach. Can cinema exist without a projector, electricity and music? Yes!

Yet, how will the film roll?

The “Optical Toys” workshop invites young cinephiles to learn the process of moving images by sketching their own frames and to become familiar with moving image gadgets. Participants will explore what existed before cinema and by designing and making their own optical toys will discover how an image can start moving, and a film frame to come to exist. The educational workshop addresses children 8-10 years old and will last 6 hours (3 hours per day).