Romain Gavras and Surkin provide a special insight into their collective job and audiovisual triptych, Neo Surf.
GENER8ION is the multidisciplinary collective task of French filmmaker Romain Gavras – the director behind striking videos for Jamie xx, M.I.A. and Justice as well as the movies Our Day Will Come and The World Is Yours – and electronic manufacturer and author Benoît Heitz, aka Surkin.
Neo Surf is the veryfirst instalment in GENER8ION’s tale of the future with a lowercase ‘f’, a future that includes minutes that uncannily appearance like the present: an AI scanner catching feelings, a fly-over alliance positioning with a spaceship, teenagers takingpleasurein flying surfboards – a relatively ‘normal’ environment, underpinned by a risk of sluggish violence, simply like the one we are experiencing right now.
Presented as a triptych, Neo Surf is presently setup at Fact and 180 Studios’ brand-new exhibit Future Shock, offering a distinctively positive view of the future inspiteof a sense of gradually unfolding disaster. “It’s nearly more questionable to see a favorable side, that even when the world is collapsing, kids will be kids and do dumb shit,” Gavras states.
In this movie, we go behind the scenes of Neo Surf with the duo, who deal a distinct insight into its affects, setting and nontransparent significance. “I simply believe it’s essential to make individuals feel something,” Gavras states, “whether it’s great, bad or upsetting.”
Neo Surf is revealing now at Future Shock, at 180 the Strand, London upuntil 28 August,2022 For tickets and info on opening times, goto the 180 The Strand website.
Neo Surf was initially commissioned by the Onassis Foundation.
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