Louisiana Mees

If youth is the season of hope, it is often so only in the sense that our elders are hopeful about us. And each crisis seems final simply because it’s new. – George Eliot

Waithood embodies the desire of five young adolescents for an independent adult life. In the Greek capital, where some 44% of young people are unemployed, these Athenians move through a fictional plot. The solution to forget their hopeless future? Days in luxurious Airbnbs, where the skyline of their city makes them dream even more of other worlds.

This film was screened during the PLAN B 2018 Arts Festival together with Oosteroever by Quinten Wyns. In both films, in addition to killing time, the role of the individual/group within a culture in crisis also plays a part. What cog are they in this world that is increasingly shaking at its foundations?