THE PURE OVERLORDS
Execution Strategy | Sovereign Production Directive
Formation of a New Cinematic Genre
Foundational Principles
Innovative Cinematic Genre
Ignition point of cinematic evolution
Rearticulation of Tradition
Like electricity was to fire
Global Cultural Transformation
Entrepreneurial independence and decentralized influence
New Paradigms
The Pure Overlords is the ignition point of a new cinematic genre.
This is not a break from tradition — it is a continuation of cinematic history in the way electricity was a continuation of fire. A change in energy, in scale, in structure, in reach. It builds upon the mythic foundation of storytelling and fuses it with the technological, cultural and semiotic realities of the post-2010s world.
The project draws directly from the transformation of global culture — entrepreneurial independence, decentralized influence, alternative payment systems and the rise of narrative power outside of legacy institutions.
Rare Discipline
Print Edition
Ultra-premium photographic AI renders mounted on 14th century deckled-edge paper
Mastery Exemplified
Cross-cultural symbolism, linguistics, materials engineering and digital infrastructure
Ready for Visibility
Complete narrative and visual codex prepared for public presentation
Cultural Artifact
The print edition — crafted entirely manually with ultra-premium photographic AI renders, mounted on 14th-century deckled-edge paper — represents a cultural artifact of rare discipline. It required mastery in cross-cultural symbolism, linguistics, materials engineering and digital infrastructure.
This project features a complete narrative and visual codex. It is ready to become visible.
Executive Production Structure
Leadership
Spearheaded by Alex Reay and his partners
Financial Provision
Royally affiliated sovereign company in the Emirates
Strategic Alignment
Scandinavian production stakeholders
Executive Production Structure
To ensure full creative and logistical integrity, The Pure Overlords is envisioned to be produced in collaboration with a newly formed executive entity
  • Spearheaded by Alex Reay
  • Provisioned by a royally affiliated sovereign company
  • Headquartered in the Emirates
  • Strategically aligned with Scandinavian production stakeholders
  • Independent & Sovereign
This executive production company holds full financial and jurisdictional command. All collaborators are onboarded by direct commission — no layers of inherited access, no legacy intermediaries.
Trailer Initiative – Cinematic Ignition
  • Director of Unblind, Wings and Riefenstahl
  • Filmmaker known for rendering high-fidelity cinematic excerpts with minimal logistics overhead
  • Valuable for reproducing historical sequences using VFX and AI with controlled budget impact
The first cinematic trailer will be produced using frontier-grade AI production methodologies by the most advanced AI filmmaker working today
Wachholz also serves as a creative advisor to the project.
Directors & Key Advisors
An entirely new format of direction is being defined in The Pure Overlords — a methodology designed not around individual ego or legacy studio frameworks. A methodology around collaborative intelligence, shared authorship and global cultural pacing. Elevating radical elegance, ceremonial modernity and a digital-spiritual convergence that channels the project’s mytho-technological identity.
The cinematic leadership structure of the project will be formed through a dynamic, democratic interview process that invites participation from an international pool of extraordinary figures. These individuals are drawn from across disciplines: some are master craftsmen of traditional film; others are trailblazers in AI, motion graphics, or narrative theory; and many come from the world of social media, where storytelling occurs in real time and under intense algorithmic pressure.
Each will be evaluated not just for their accolades — but for chemistry and shared resonance within the team, through in-person sessions held across various hubs of cultural and cinematic innovation. Some candidates will serve as co-directors. Others as advisory anchors. All will be part of a constellation of influence that defines the execution logic of The Pure Overlords.
Key Directors Candidate Profiles
Anorak Films (Paris)
One of Europe’s most renowned creative production firms. Anorak’s roster includes collaborators with LVMH, Cartier, Mercedes-Benz, Apple, Porsche, Nike and many more. Their directors have worked on global campaigns that blend cinema with brand myth-making.
A filmmaker under Anorak, known for creating boundary-pushing visuals for Hermès, Lacoste, Mercedes-AMG, and Louis Vuitton. Grevet brings an aesthetic logic shaped by fashion, luxury, and kinetic identity.
These figures, along with others to be revealed, will undergo review for strategic placement based on narrative tone, regional access, technological compatibility, and visionary cohesion.
This structure is designed not to impose hierarchy — but to ignite co-creative command across multiple visual and narrative zones. It is, by design, a director constellation, not a director throne
Nina Holmgren is a distinguished cinematographer celebrated for her visionary work across high-end commercial productions, including campaigns for Mercedes-Benz and other major international luxury brands. Her cinematic style is defined by an extraordinary sensitivity to lighting, visual rhythm, and emotional depth — qualities that elevate her work far beyond conventional advertising
With a background rooted in directing and cinematography, she brings a profound artistic lens to every project, crafting images that are both meticulously composed and narratively rich. Holmgren possesses not only the technical mastery but also the creative depth to helm entire feature films, delivering visual storytelling with striking detail, tonal precision, and a powerful sense of atmosphere. Her work stands as a bridge between the refined aesthetics of fashion cinema and the immersive world building of auteur filmmaking
A UK-based cinematic analyst and filmmaker, founder and host of a widely respected YouTube channel dedicated to high-level visual and narrative analysis of the most iconic films in history. Burrows has participated in Raindance and Cannes and is known for his analog and digital cinematography expertise.
Key Advisors
Kellner is a filmmaker and aerial cinematographer known for luxurious spatial pacing, grand compositional rhythm, and poetic film essays. His visual tone blends high fashion editorialism with emotional wanderlust. He is considered one of the foremost cinematic documentarians of the Instagram travel nomad era.
Levitt is a social media-native filmmaker with broad understanding of YouTube pacing, cinematic reenactments of iconic film scenes, and gaming world storytelling. He translates meme-era humor, modern editing rhythms, and audience sentiment with precision, often recreating blockbuster scenes in DIY brilliance.
Berlin-based writer-director and creator of Spides (NBCUniversal/SyFy), Unblind, and other mythic-AI hybrid shorts. Wachholz combines rich narrative logic with expert-level VFX execution. He is renowned in Germany for his work on The Dark Eye and teaches advanced seminars in Systemic Storytelling and Dark Drama.
Advisors
An experienced creative advisor and co-director candidate who bridges new media, AI systems, and global youth cultural codes. Alberta is deeply attuned to TikTok-era semiotics, non-cringe humor, emerging tech logic, and narrative framing that aligns with current audience attention models.
Founder of Cinema Akil in Dubai, Kazim is a cornerstone of cinematic culture in the MENA region. She brings unparalleled regional insight and narrative diplomacy, with deep ties to both grassroots movements and high-level cultural institutions
Advisors
Installation artist with profound visual aesthetics lexicon
Acclaimed Malaysian director of Guang, known for intimate realism and regional storytelling power
High-impact visual creator and director with massive digital reach
Cinematography – Artistic Precision
A carefully selected pool of cinematographers and supporting talent will be evaluated and appointed through personal interviews to ensure visual philosophy and collaborative clarity are aligned with the tone of The Pure Overlords. The process is designed to select, not impose
Lead Cinematographer Candidates
A visionary Argentine cinematographer, known for dreamlike atmospherics, symbolic composition, and psycho-emotional resonance whose work stands out for its daring visual language and emotional intensity. Trained at the National Film and Television School in the UK, she has lensed many internationally acclaimed films consistently pushing the boundaries of cinematic aesthetics
Her approach blends technical mastery with poetic instinct—favoring naturalistic lighting, vintage lenses, unconventional framing, and tactile textures that give her images a deeply immersive, dreamlike quality. Braier’s background as a camera operator grants her an exceptional command of visual rhythm and intimacy, allowing her to choreograph light and movement with rare precision. In a field saturated with formulaic techniques, she remains uncompromisingly original, widely recognized for crafting some of the most visually compelling and emotionally resonant frames in contemporary cinema.
Candidate for Aerial Cinematography Advisor with strong aerial and environmental filmmaking credentials
Casting Philosophy
Beyond Industry Doors
Cultural legitimacy not confined to traditional industry gatekeepers
Value-Based Influence
Today's most influential voices built followings through value, persistence, and public resonance
Character Verification
Acting as a vessel for character, verified by real-world myth
Decentralized Legacy
The Pure Overlords does not conform to the premise that cultural legitimacy must pass through closed industry doors. Instead, it acknowledges that today's most influential voices built their followings through value, persistence and public resonance — without waiting for permission.
Proposed Cast
TThese are not novelty choices — they are a return to the principle that acting is a vessel for character, and character is verified by real-world myth.
Central Character
Not a Meme
A culturally and visually resonant figure, not an impersonator
Mythic Brother
Represents one of two mythic brothers - two hemispheres, two timelines, one origin
Active Involvement
In contact with production team, not hypothetical participation
Symbolic Gravity
A milestone of archetypal significance
Yilong Ma
Among the most pivotal characters in the narrative is portrayed by Yilong Ma
He is not a meme nor an impersonator. He is a culturally and visually resonant figure who appears, to many at first glance, as an AI-generated likeness of Elon Musk
However, he is very real — and in the story of The Pure Overlords, he is central. He represents one of the two mythic brothers — two hemispheres, two timelines, one origin. The concept is archetypal. The execution is literal.
Yilong Ma is in active contact with the production team.
His interest is not casual. His involvement is not hypothetical.
It is a milestone of symbolic gravity that cannot be overstated.
instagram.com/yilong.meta
VFX and Post Production
Ultra-Precise VFX
High-impact visual effects that outclass industry giants
Layered Simulation
Advanced procedural worldbuilding capabilities
International Operations
Based in Eastern Europe with global reach
Reality-Level Rendering
Clean compositing with integrity for mythic storytelling
VFX and Post Production
Post-production on The Pure Overlords will be entrusted to a studio that exceeds the aesthetic and technical standards of any conventional blockbuster.
  • Based in Eastern Europe with international operations
  • Known for ultra-precise, high-impact VFX that outclass industry giants in execution and emotional rhythm
  • Trusted by major global brands and filmmakers pushing beyond the boundaries of commercial spectacle
Jilrock's team offers layered simulation, procedural worldbuilding, and clean compositing with integrity — an ideal match for a mythic project requiring reality-level rendering
In addition to Jilrock Productions’ leadership in photorealistic VFX, The Pure Overlords proposes a significant allocation of animation and kinetic visual sequences to be executed under the direction of Ardhira Putra in consultation with the curatorial team at Pocko.
Ardhira Putra is a visionary Indonesian-born animation director whose signature aesthetic — rooted in Southeast Asian mythologies, Vaporwave surrealism and hyper-layered motion rhythm — has redefined what “Kawaii” and Japanese-inspired animation can be in the 21st century.
Rather than copying anime traditions, Putra reinvents them:
  • Executing sequences that shimmer with metaphysical symbolism
  • Embedding cultural memory into frame-level motion design
  • Building character presence through colors and textures that evoke dream-state synesthesia
Under the guidance of Pocko, a renowned London-based creative agency known for representing avant-garde illustrators, technologists and motion artists, these VFX segments will form an entirely new language of animated storytelling — unseen in any prior large-scale cinematic production.
This partnership signals a radical departure from overused CG tropes and instead embraces a visual-poetic grammar of global myth — precise, stunning, and deeply intentional.
Production Execution
Era Defining Level
Era-Defining Work
A blueprint for cinematic transformation
Sovereign Funding
Financial independence enabling creative freedom
Collaborative Execution
Drawing from modern creator ecosystems
Radical Currency
Honoring the past through extension, not imitation
Closing Statement
This is a blueprint for an era-defining work.
It is sovereign in funding, collaborative in execution, and radically current in tone.
It honors the past not by imitation.
By extension — just as electricity did not reject fire, but transformed its reach.
Let this be the reel that reshapes the real.
The Pure Overlords starts now