Gener8ion | Romain Gavras

Athens, Greece, 2034

Romain Gavras’ first film to be shot in Greece, produced by Onassis Culture, presents poetic images of a near future shot in an ancient marble quarry. Teenagers living in abandoned areas on the outskirts of Athens pass the time hunting ostriches, and surfing in the Isthmus of Corinth. Meanwhile, the government has strictly restricted access to an area inundated by toxic algae, allowing only local residents to enter.

Credits

Featuring Shake 070 (Danielle Balbuena / Benoît Heitz) (p) Iconoclast Music / 070 Shake appears courtesy of Getting Out Our Dreams, Inc. / Def Jam Recordings, a division of UMG Recordings Inc.

Directed by Romain Gavras

Music by Gener8ion

Co-produced by Iconoclast and Onassis Culture

Producer: Arnaud Le Méné

Director of Photography: Nicolas Loir

Focus Duller: Vincent Toubel

Second Camera Assistant: Paul Bailleux

Drone Operators: Myron Mance, Stephan Van Zyl

Art Design: Arno Roth

Stylist: Nick Royal

Stylism: Alyx Studio

Executive Production: Akrobat Films

Executive Producer: Theodora Gourgouras

Production Manager: Babis Vlachodimitropoulos

First AD: Emmelia Chatziandreou

Location Manager: Giorgos Alexopoulos

Unit Manager: Nikos Filippakis

Make-up and Hair: Maria Vez

Jetfoil company: Takuma

Postproduction: Poster

Post Producer: Cyril Bordesoulle

Editors: Nicolas Larouquere, Walter Mauriot

Color Grade: Mathieu Caplanne

VFX production: Guillaume Marien

VFX supervisor: Yan Aldabe

Flame: Fred Brandon & Clement Germain

Casting: Ilan Guyot, Joris Ly, Djiby Kebe, Chloé Payen, Marguerite Thiam

Body Double: Théo Démanez, Clément Colmas, Léo Paul Etienne

Mumbai, India, 2034

How many emotions can fit inside a film? Charlize Theron – a leading actor of our time – plays the principal role in “Emotions”, appearing as a perfect, AI-animated 3D star. According to the film’s plot, this system provides the Indian film industry with hyper-realistic replicas of Hollywood actors capable of rendering a wide range of emotions.

Credits

Directed by Romain Gavras

Music by Gener8ion

Produced by Iconoclast

Producer: Arnaud Le Méné

Production Coordinator: Alice Eynaud

Executive Producer: Francesco Colombo

Producer: Jeff Kopchia

Coordinator: Nathaniel Dueber

First Assistant Director: Spike Topian

Second Assistant Director: Yvonne Wang

Director of Photography: Arnaud Potier

First Camera Assistant: Chris Strauser

Second Camera Assistant: Per Chris

D.I.T.: Lanlin Wong

Gaffer: Jesse Wine

Best Boy Electric: Simon Cho

Key Grip: David Riggio

Best Boy Grip: Per David

Sound Mixer: Joe Hettinger

Boom Op: Mark Grech

Hair: Sami Knight

Makeup: Laramie Glen

Stylist: Sara Sensoy

VFX: François Xavier Pourre

Post-production: Poster

Wyoming, NAU, 2034

“Agartha” was shot in the forests of Ukraine, where a metal spaceship was constructed out of old Red Army tanks. The film is a propaganda video of the so-called Agartha Liberation Army. This fictitious insurgent group declared their independence from the North American Union in the states of Wyoming and Idaho in the year 2029. Their firm belief that the Earth is hollow and holds the answer to everything means they violently oppose any form of space exploration.

Credits

Directed by Romain Gavras

Music by Gener8ion

Produced by Iconoclast

Producer: Arnaud Le Méné

Director of Photography: Benoit Soler

Focus Puller: Vincent Toubel

Second Camera Assistant: Paul Bailleux

Drone Operators: Myron Mance, Stephan Van Zyl

Art Design: Nathan Parker

Stylist: Hannah Edwards

Executive Production: Shelter Film

Executive Producer: Albert Zurashvili

Producer: Daria Stepani

Line Producer: Roman Kravets

First Assistant Director: Grits

Second Assistant Director: Vadim Yuzhba

PM: Maks Matveev

Production Designer: Mikhail Levchenko

Wardrobe Stylist: Valentin Bren

Gaffer: Eugene Vivcharik

SFX: Vadim Lysak

Stunts: Ilya Yurchishin

Location Manager: Oleg Kuptsov

Casting Assistant: Ive Botoku

Crowd Casting Assistant: Panas Andrew

Post-production: Poster

Post producer: Cyril Bordesoulle

Editors: Benjamin Weill, Walter Mauriot

Colorgrade: Mathieu Caplanne

VFX: Mathématic

The Mandra is a venue currently under reconstruction and situated on a pedestrianized precinct in Plaka (at 2 Dionysiou Areopagitou Street), soon to be integrated into the dynamic ecosystem of the Onassis Foundation. Pitched at a stone’s throw from the Onassis Library at Amalias Avenue, the Mandra is being restored back to life as a vibrant hub of cultural and artistic expression. Lying hidden at its heart is the most representative example of Athenian Belle Époque open-air theater architecture: an outdoor stage built in 1909 belonging to the ‘mandra’ (‘yard’) theater type, which is to say an outdoor theater taking the form of a rudimentary stalls area with an Italianate stage. Athenians of a bygone era knew it as the “Athinaikon” (“Athenian”), as the “Arch of Hadrian Theater,” but also as the “Germaniko” for a time, when German operettas were in their heyday.

In the summer of 2022, the parts of the theatrical stage were carefully transported to a conservation center for their restoration. At the same time, for their faithful reproduction, special molds were fabricated, aspiring to a complete restoration of the outdoor stage. The molds are exhibited at the construction site area of the Mandra, fully accessible by the public, while, upon completion of the construction works, various activities springing from the reality of the city we live in will be hosted there, as a diverse mosaic of human experiences.