Feature Film ∙ now shooting
Café Fallible
In the ruins of a liberal golden age, two performers running the wrong kind of café attract the wrong kind of attention.
Synopsis
In a city where human progress has been curtailed following the collapse of a once-liberal golden age, Cat and Fae use Café Fallible to stage performances that blend entertainment with anti-authoritarian philosophy. One day a mysterious code appears in Fae’s mind embedded in jazz music only she can hear. Instructions to build a lo-fi radio set, or so it seems. Meanwhile, idealistic activists of various persuasions attempt to infiltrate the cafe, drawn by rumours of something that shouldn’t exist.
Project Status
- Feature film, now shooting in Barcelona
- Part of the ART e FACTs film series.
Location
- Shot in Barcelona, with Parc del Fòrum’s brutalist architecture and an iconic Late 18th-century Urban Industrial art space as the Venue
Visual & stylistic approach
- Fixed camera tableaux and long passages without dialogue
- Cabaret numbers as philosophical engine
- Deliberate anachronism: paper, public phones, no visible computers
- Science fiction largely off-screen
Themes
- Consciousness and legitimacy
- Art as resistance
- The ethics of fallibility versus certainty
Key Characters
- Cat & Fae — Cabaret performers using satire as resistance
- Colin — A conflicted infiltrator with ties to the past
- Jack & Jill — Believers whose shared ideology fractures in opposite directions
About ART e FACTs
- Café Fallible is part of ART e FACTs, a series of formally adventurous films examining creativity, authority, and power.
Contact
- Robert Iolini – info@iolini.com