Gener8ion | Romain Gavras
Three short films from the future featuring surfers, rebels, and Charlize Theron
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Tickets | Onassis Stegi, Upper Stage, Exhibition Hall -1
Onassis Stegi Friends and general presale: from 9 SEP 2022, 17:00
Full price: 4 €
Reduced, Friend: 3 €
Unemployed, People with disabilities, Companions: 2 €
The Mandra
Free admission
Introduction
The enfant terrible of French cinema presents defamiliarized images of a familiar-feeling future in his new work “Gener8ion”, co-produced by Onassis Culture. Three pop video installations starring surfers, freedom fighters and Charlize Theron.
Still: “Neo Surf”
Is there room for beauty in an apocalyptic setting? Filmmaker Romain Gavras – who has directed some of the most subversive music videos ever made for the likes of Kanye West, M.I.A., Jay-Z, and Justice – gives answer to this question with his new work, created in partnership with the musician, DJ, and record producer Surkin. Comprising three short films, “Gener8ion” traces the story of a future that feels very much like the present. This audio-visual journey set in the year 2034 launches at Onassis Stegi before setting off for The Mandra on Dionysiou Areopagitou Street. In these films, there’s no sudden threat, no end-of-the-world scenario, just a seemingly “normal” setting threaded through with a slow, invisible violence – precisely the kind we’re experiencing in the present day.
Shortly after its international premiere at the Venice Film Festival, the feature film “Athena” was also presented at a special screening on the Onassis Stegi Main Stage on Friday, September 23. “Athena” – a modern Greek tragedy about an undeclared, all-out war that plunges the French suburbs into chaos – is Romain Gavras’ third feature, co-written with Ladj Ly and Elias Belkeddar, and distributed by Netflix.
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22.9 -23.10.2022 | Exhibition Hall -1 | Wednesday - Sunday 19:00 - 23:00
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 CultureProducer: 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
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Still: “Neo Surf”
22.9 - 23.10.2022 | The Mandra | Everyday, 12:00 - 21:00
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
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Still: “Emotions”
22.9 - 23.10.2022 | Onassis Stegi, Upper Stage | Wednesday - Sunday, 19:00 - 23:00
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
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Still: “Agartha”
“It was my first time shooting in Greece, and I felt at home. With the support of Onassis Culture and my amazing Greek crew, we made something I could not have made anywhere else in the world built from images and locations of Greece I had in my mind since I was a child. Kids will be kids, doing kid's thing and creating memories even if the world is dying.”
—Romain Gavras
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Biographies
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.
