Project Team:
Lina Theodorou with Vasso Christou, Michalis Manolios, Ioanna Bourazopoulou, Hepheaestion Christopoulos, Costas Charitos, Stamatis Stamatopoulos, Titika Bourka, Yiannis Papadopoulos, Dimitris Fyssas, Teti Theodorou and Kelly Theodorokapoulou (Writers); Ioannis Savvidis (drawings); Dimitris Arvanitis, Katerina Oikonomakou, Giorgos Katsavos, Antonia Katsavou (collaborators)
α2525, Athens in S.F. is based on 13 short stories written by 10 Greek sci-fi authors, who were specifically commissioned to provide them imagining the future of Athens. It is a film project that was subsequently created to address the questions, images and ideas presented in the utopian or dystopian scenarios of the authors. In the form of an omnibus documentary, which makes use of interviews, videos and drawings, the film evokes the writers' visions and hypotheses regarding the city's future in different time periods. The project touches upon several issues such as: climate change; possible epidemics; the application of augmented reality in public space; the fusion of cities through virtual reality; the uncontrollable dissemination of fake news; religious fanaticism; a future society based on collectivity; a new autocratic plan of global development; technologies that are beyond man's control or trigger global geopolitical shifts. The film is accompanied by the published stories on which it is based.
