20-22 OMEGA: 2021 EDITION

A non-verbal cinematic symphony about the humans of the Anthropocene. 20-22 is the prequel project to 21-22 the VR series project.

In 8 chapters, 20-22 OMEGA: 2021 EDITION invites us on a cinematic odyssey into the human civilization which engendered a new Earth epoch known as the Anthropocene.

Shot over 5 years across 100 locations, with an expansive and profound look at contemporary postmodern humanity, this film brings us compelling Black & White imagery revealing various human environments, activities, events and behaviors; all captured on celluloid film. In symphony with the cinematography, Cathedral organ music, choir songs and Inuit throat singing come together to create a hypnotic operatic soundtrack, standing in for speech.

This film reprises the Avantgarde "city symphony" cinema genre of the 1920s -- as an ode, a reference as well as a juxtaposition to the past -- and thus conjuring a postmodern cinematic symphony about the 21st century. Through the medium and language of nonverbal cinema (music and imagery), we are presented a meditative examination of the anthropocentric way of life full of crowds, machines, technology, production and abstraction.

20-22 OMEGA is a "true civilization symphony" as described by Fabrice Montal, programmer and curator of the Cinémathèque Québécoise, and a "stunning feature film translating the great art of the 1920’s “city symphonies” into our modern-day world" as described by the British Film Institute.