Making the invisible visible.

Hypnoesis (Referring to the Greek words "Hypno": Sleep, and "Noesis": Cognition or "the ability to sense or know something immediately"). The movie first started as work of observation within the urban landscape of London. The vision was then transferred using a digital video camera, a job that would take several years to achieve. The intensive process became like a quest, taking French filmmaker Mick Ankri (and eventually the audience) into a world of the unknown and the unseen. The city was used like a film studio, with all its available props and locations. No actual people were filmed during the whole process (the only humans appearing in the film were taken from the multitude of posters and promotional campaigns), purposely focusing on the material world and the subliminal. The protagonists became the automobiles, the colossal double Decker buses, the CCTV's/speed cameras implanted everywhere, the countless billboards (with their ads mirroring the world described on the streets), thus creating a world of their own and evoking humanity dominated by its creation). The atmosphere depicted, an ultra secured Orwellian state under the control of an artificial/invisible intelligence, also revealed many forms of disguised propaganda, suggesting a hidden hand manipulating society behind the curtain. All the images, messages, phrases, titles and slogans were assembled and edited together in a very special order, creating a sense of narrative as the story unfolds. Finally, with the addition of Italian composer Paolo Carnevali's mesmerizing and mind-blowing melodies, the cycle became complete.—Mick Ankri