Abraxas

Abraxas


World Premiere
Sebastian Vargas / France, Switzerland / 2020 / 20 min / Video
French

Les Espaces d’Abraxas, in the Paris region, is a huge neo-classical-inspired building complex designed in the early 1980s. The building, with more than 600 apartments, is regularly used as a set for film productions where its inhabitants are almost always invisible. Sebastian Vargas’ project gives a new voice to those who live in these spaces, who use and wear them out – thus taking a subtle and precise look at the architectural utopia of suburbs and the politics of image as well as story creation around these places.

Creation
Sebastian Vargas
Direction
Sebastian Vargas
Key collaborators
Lea Jullien (Assistant director, interviews), Jahn Koutrios (Graphic Designer), Ignacio Pérez (Creative Coding)
Interactive design
Ignacio Perez
Music
Jahn Koutrios, Lea Jullien
Production
Kairos Studio GmbH (KS), Geneva International Film Festival (GIFF), Counterpoint Association (CA)
With
People of Abraxas
Contact
Kairos Studio GmbH (Sebastian Vargas)
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