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Unicity

2030, Aaron and Alexia find themselves at the heart of an insomnia pandemic that is slowly leading people to exhaustion.

Seeing the situation getting worse, the couple has fled the city.

However, the pandemic is not weakening, its origin seems to gradually become clearer.

  • Antonin DOMAGE
    Director
  • Antonin DOMAGE
    Writer
  • Antonin DOMAGE
    Producer
  • Antonin DOMAGE
    Key Cast
    "Aaron"
  • Mélanie LEMAIRE
    Key Cast
    "Alexia"
  • Anais Kimpe
    Key Cast
    "ETI (intelligence artificielle)"
  • Jérôme Marie
    Key Cast
    "Vendeur d'arme"
  • Carolle Marie
    Key Cast
    "Journaliste "
  • Olivier Peissel
    Key Cast
    "Grand père d'Aaron"
  • Seth Shannon
    Key Cast
    "Journaliste 2"
  • Mickael Deshaye
    Key Cast
    "Vendeur d'arme"
  • Quentin DOMAGE
    Key Cast
    "Eden"
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    Unicité
  • Project Type:
    Feature
  • Genres:
    Sci-fi, Thriller, horror
  • Runtime:
    2 hours 6 minutes 10 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    November 1, 2021
  • Production Budget:
    14,000 EUR
  • Country of Origin:
    France
  • Country of Filming:
    France
  • Language:
    French
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
  • Boden International Film Festival

    Semi Finalist (First time features film) 2022
  • Thrills And Chills Film Awards

    Honorable Mention - Best Thriller Film (30 janvier 2022)
  • AI International Film Festival

    Award Winner (Best International feature) 2022
  • Royal Society of Television & Motion Picture Awards

    Award Winner : Horror / Science Fiction / Genre Feature Film (Above 40 minutes)
  • Paradise Film Festival

    Award Winner : Award Winner (Best Sci-fi) 2022
  • Stockholm City Film Festival

    Semi Finalist - All Categories Feature Film (12 mars 2022)
  • Tokyo Film Awards

    Award Winner (Best Thriller) Décembre 2021
  • Royal Society of Television & Motion Picture Awards

    Award Winner ( Horror / Science Fiction / Genre Feature Film) 2022
Director Biography - Antonin DOMAGE

Antonin was born on 11 August 1991 in Paris.

Lulled by Disney creations, his attraction for video and cinema
goes back to his 11 years old when The Lord of the Rings:
The Two Towers was released in theaters.

The works of Hayao Miyazaki, through their stories and their
universes also played an important role in his nascent passion
for the seventh art.

In 2003, film rentals allowed him to gradually immerse himself
in the film culture. Later on, the arrival of the streaming platforms Youtube and Dailymotion will change his vision of audiovisual creation.

In 2007 and 2009, the films Rec and Paranormal Activity slowly sharpened his attraction for the found footage (story filmed by the protagonists).

In 2012, the emergence of "Daily Vlogs" (daily video blog) posted on Youtube in the United States, will be a real revelation for the young man.

The creators Jesse Wellen, Ben Brown, Louis Cole, Casey Neistat, whom he watches with admiration, push the nail in, making the very amateur format at first into real short films posted every day.

Between 2013 and 2014, impregnated with the Youtube culture, Antonin made about fifteen Vlogs.

In 2015, suffering from Ehlers Danlos syndrome, a period of hyperacusis and pain caused him insomnia, which gradually faded away. This episode marks him deeply, the subject of insomnia will be at the heart of the story of Unicity that he will write 4 years later.

The movies Rec, Cloverfield, The Witch, Her, Prometheus, Hungerford as well as The Da Vinci Code fascinated him. Associated with the Vlog culture, these works will strongly orient his attraction for: horror, thriller and anticipation.

In 2018, while making a new vlog, he considered writing and directing his own film. At the end of the year, when his employment contract is not renewed into a permanent contract, he finds himself unemployed and decides to embark on the adventure of writing and directing.

From 2019 to 2021, he creates Unicity ("Unicité" in french), a feature film with a budget of about 14,000 euros. The film will have required 6 months of writing, 28 days of shooting, several months of editing and post-production.

He will complete the film in November 2021 while giving freelance training in video editing and graphic culture.

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Director Statement

Unicity is a film in Vlog format, filmed by the protagonists, halfway between thriller, horror and anticipation.

Many films have used this format called "found footage": Cloverfield, Rec, Paranormal activity, Area 51 or the Blair Witch project to name a few. The main goal is to entertain but also to make the audience aware of the different problems that man will face over the next twenty years.

Indeed, the film takes place in 2030, the topics addressed are:

- The unexplained decrease of sleep time as well as sleep paralysis.
- Permafrost melting
- The regulation of artificial intelligence
- The place of esoteric writings in a constantly changing world.

I have tried to take some of the material presented and documented in the film from real sources.

Apart from paraphrasing some symbols and verses to make them more “occult”: books, paintings, biblical verses, symbols, as well as certain scientific and historical facts do exist.

However, the story remains a fiction created to entertain: the narrative of the film, the Vatican's research, the rise of sectarian groups linked to sleep, the pandemic as well as the connection between the melting of permafrost and the decline in sleep time are fictitious.

Sleep, insomnia and sleep paralysis are the main themes of the film. These subjects are relatively little covered, while the possibilities offered, both esoterically, scientifically and historically, are great.

The Vlog / Found Footage format is a format that I particularly appreciate. The protagonists sometimes speak to the audience: They then share their joys, fears and discoveries throughout the film.

A link is created with the viewer allowing a certain immersion. The editing via cuts, cropping and adding music improves the pacing.

Image stabilization limits the phenomenon of "motion sickness" sometimes associated with found footage.

Overall, these subjects, my strong attraction for writing, anticipation, and the format of the found footage / Vlog pushed me to create this story, which I hope will achieve the three objectives : entertain, raise audience awareness, and for my part, enjoying the creation process.