Gym Symphony
A hybrid experimental short film offering a contemporary, digital reading of Dante’s Divine Comedy.
Beginning in an ordinary gym and slowly mutating into a Bosch-like inferno, it evokes the apocalyptic atmosphere of late-stage capitalism by blending on-location footage with AI-generated dreamlike imagery.
The music follows the same metamorphosis. Written for a full symphony orchestra and colliding with raw electronics, it evolves into a multilayered, experimental sound world. The narrator’s voice is AI-generated, turning the soundscape into a metaphor for overload, self-exploitation, and contemporary body culture.
Credits +
Director: Jákob Ladányi Jancsó
Music: Petra Szászi
Performed by: Danubia Orchestra
Production Company: BEYOND
Producer: Petra Szászi, Péter Rádi
Co-Producer: SPARKS
Executive Producer: Judit Romwalter
Master: Roland Nagy
Additional Soundscapes: Ambrus Tövisházi, Vendel Vajda
Director of Photography (DoP): Dániel Bálint
Editor: László Csongor Csurka
Assistant Director (AD): Donát Seres
2nd AD: Sára Kisházy
Production Manager: Zsófi Mánya
Focus Puller: János Darmos
1st AC: János Darmos, Armand Puszta
2nd AC: László Szabó
Key PA: Tímea Czakó
Stat Coordinator: Fanni Szegedi
Gaffer: Botond Holndonner, Andor Valentiny
Grip and Electric Staff: Máté Előd, Gergely Povázsay, Bálint Taricska, Mátyás Lakatos, Zsombor Szász, Ágoston Mohácsi
AI Producer: Máté Barbalics
AI Artist: UMBRELLA’s AI Lab – Márk Sas, Panka Óvári, Áron Bajnok, Dávid Lendvai
VFX Composition: Bercel Hegyessy, Shahab Hosseini, Bence Major-Sasvari
On Set AI: Márk Sas, Áron Filkey, Emil Goodman, Máté Brauner
Camera Trainee: Zóra Elek
Production Designer: Panna Óvári, Bercel Hegyessy
Art Assistant: Luca, Kata Óvári
HMU Artist: Szilvia Szabó
Costume Designer: Linda Páva
Costume Assistant: Aliz Liszkay
VFX Stills: Géza Soós
BTS Photo: Lídia Paseczki
Casting: Hermina Fátyol, Dezső Bálint, Petra Szászi, Sára Kisházy
Choreographer: Domokos Kovács
Set Dressers: Luca Susla, Kata Óvári, Lilla Bukovacz, Sára Bacsfalvi
Wardrobe Assistant: Aliz Liszkay
Makeup: Szilvia Szabó
Driver: Endre Ferenc Szászi
Catering: Regina Fábián, Anna Horváth, Anna Kistamás, Katalin Fehérváry
Special thanks to: Power Gym and Fitness, Er-Si Moon Kft., Nebo Dojo, UMBRELLA, Zoom Casting