{"id":2458713,"date":"2020-05-21T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-21T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=326005"},"modified":"2020-05-21T16:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-05-21T22:00:00","slug":"aspen-shortsfest-best-comedy-prizewinner-postcards-from-the-end-of-the-world-may-be-the-short-film-for-our-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/aspen-shortsfest-best-comedy-prizewinner-postcards-from-the-end-of-the-world-may-be-the-short-film-for-our-moment\/","title":{"rendered":"Aspen Shortsfest Best Comedy prizewinner \u2018Postcards from the End of the World\u2019 may be the short film for our moment"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Aspen Shortsfest Best Comedy winner “Postcards from the Edge of the World” is one of nine prize-winners streaming Memorial Day weekend.<\/strong>
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Filmmaker Konstantinos Antonopoulos never imagined viewers would describe his short comedy of the apocalypse as \u201ctimely\u201d or \u201cfamiliar.\u201d But, of course, few people thought they\u2019d experience a global pandemic this spring.<\/p>\n

The Greek filmmaker\u2019s 23-minute \u201cPostcards from the End of the World,\u201d which won the Best Comedy prize at the virtual Aspen Shortsfest<\/a> during the early days of the global coronavirus lockdown period, has been drawing attention and praise as viewers see it through the lens of their current experience.<\/p>\n

It tells the story of a couple, Dimitri and Dimitris, on a beach vacation with their children in the Greek Isles when human civilization collapses. It imagines a situation similar to the one we\u2019ve read about in news stories in recent months, like the ones about American couples stranded on their honeymoons in the Maldives and Sri Lanka as U.S. borders closed in April.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat we see in the film is the idea of reality collapsing for people and this feeling of not knowing what\u2019s going to happen tomorrow invading the lives of the characters,\u201d Antonopoulos said in a telephone interview from home in Athens, Greece. \u201cNow that\u2019s something we\u2019ve all experienced to a degree. So it\u2019s become more relevant. It\u2019s funny and it\u2019s tragic.\u201d<\/p>\n

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