Feature Film ∙ now shooting
Café Fallible
Cabaret, quantum physics, and utopian dreamers. Just another night at the café.
Synopsis
In a city where technological progress has been curtailed following the collapse of a once-liberal golden age, Cat and Fae use the bohemian Café Fallible as their stage for irreverent performances that blend entertainment with philosophical critique and an unwavering anti-authoritarian stance. As threats from an anti-technology and progress cult close in, a mysterious code appears in Fae’s mind, followed by cryptic messages embedded in jazz music, as though something or someone is reaching out from beyond their controlled world. Café Fallible stands as a space to resist control and explore freedom.
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
- Geneis Res — A remote intelligence asking to be recognised
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