Feature Film ∙ In Development
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 becomes a site of artistic defiance and radical possibility.
Project Status
- Feature film, in development.
- Part of the ART e FACTs film series.
- Planned Barcelona shoot.
Location
- Shot in Barcelona, with Parc del Fòrum’s brutalist architecture and an iconic cabaret venue at its centre.
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