FUTURE '79

Short List
TitleFUTURE '79
BrandMERCEDES-BENZ
Product/ServiceCONCEPT EQG
Category A04. Production Design / Art Direction
Entrant ANORAK Berlin, GERMANY
Idea Creation ANTONI Berlin, GERMANY
Production ANORAK Berlin, GERMANY
Post Production TIME BASED ARTS London, UNITED KINGDOM
Post Production 2 MERMADE SOUND GMBH Berlin, GERMANY
Post Production 3 PLAYDIS Berlin, GERMANY
Credits
Name Company Position
Marcell Francke antoni garage GmbH & Co. KG Managing Director:
Tillman Gossner antoni garage GmbH & Co. KG Managing Director:
Daniel Duerbeck antoni garage GmbH & Co. KG Managing Director:
Christina Mueller antoni garage GmbH & Co. KG Client Service Director:
Christian Pauli antoni garage GmbH & Co. KG Account Director:
Marcell Francke antoni garage GmbH & Co. KG Executive Creative Director:
Christian Kies antoni garage GmbH & Co. KG Creative Director:
Christopher Hoene antoni garage GmbH & Co. KG Creative Director:
Tim Grötzinger antoni garage GmbH & Co. KG Art Director:
David Kaufmann antoni garage GmbH & Co. KG Copy Writer:
Daniel Duhn antoni garage GmbH & Co. KG Copy Writer:
Henning Rieseweber antoni garage GmbH & Co. KG Agency Producer:
Christiane Dressler ANORAK Film GmbH Managing Director:
Christoph Petzenhauser ANORAK Film GmbH Executive Producer:
Toni Jaschke ANORAK Film GmbH Producer:
Nina Holmgren ANORAK Film Director:
Mauro Chiarello ANORAK Film Cinematographer
Robin Brown ANORAK Film GmbH Production Design:
Lauren Anne Groves ANORAK Film GmbH Wardrobe consultant:
Evheniy Popovichenko radioactive film – Ukraine Art-director:
WeRelease WeRelease radioactive film – Ukraine Styling:
Janne Vartia ANORAK Film GmbH Editor
Miikka Kalia ANORAK Film GmbH Edit Assistant:
Filip Lisowski ANORAK Film GmbH Edit Assistant:
Chris Aliano Time Based Arts POST Producer:
Stephen Grasso Time Based Arts VFX Supervision/Lead Flame:
Jamie Crofts Time Based Arts 2D Flame:
Jamie Crofts Time Based Arts 2D Flame:
Leo Weston Time Based Arts 2D Flame:
Leandro Vazquez Time Based Arts 2D Nuke:
Will Robbinson Time Based Arts 2D Nuke:
Matt Shires Time Based Arts 2D Nuke:
Ralph Briscoe Time Based Arts 2D Nuke:
Ian Baird Time Based Arts CG:
Emma Malric Time Based Arts CG:
Sam Osborne Time Based Arts CG:
Teodora Retegan Time Based Arts CG:
Tom Robinson Time Based Arts GFX:
Stephan Ross Time Based Arts GFX:
Wenke Kleine-Benne Mermade Sound Sound Design:
Lewis Crossfield Time Based ArtsLondon Colorist:
Max Ferguson-Hook Assistant Colorist: Assistant Colorist:
Sharn Talbott Time Based ArtsLondon Assistant Colorist:
Georg von dem Bussche PlayDis! Music Composer:

Write a short summary of what happens in the film

To announce the making of an electrified G-Class “Future 2021” envisions the year 2021 from the perspective of the year 1979. The year the first ever G-Class saw the light of day. The film introduces the new G-class in a fantastic, futuristic setting packed with aliens, talking robots and outlandish landscapes. Together with the car we become part of a classical science-fiction narrative and travel through space and time. The adventures of the Concept EQG are whimsical, humorous and out of this world.

Cultural / Context information for the jury

The task was to bring together the history of the G-class with the futuristic ideology of its new model - a reflection of its classic design combined with newly-innovated technology. The challenge was to create a film that was rooted in 1979 whilst looking forward to the present. What better way to do that than to work with genre, nostalgia and style.