Crisi d’autore

An abandoned cinema, with broken neon lights and torn
seats. A solitary, theatrical figure, Gradiscka, wanders
among the remains of what was once a collective temple of
cinema. He is our guide on a journey through the agony and
possible resurrection of Italian cinema, told through the
use of fake news, artificial intelligence and ruthless
satire.
Through disguised real testimonies, grotesque newsreels,
impossible interviews with deceased directors and actors
(from Pasolini to Monicelli, from Fellini to Scola), and
visual sequences generated entirely by AI, the film
denounces with fierce lucidity a production system that
has replaced expressive urgency with tax reporting, and
art with algorithms.
Crisi d’autore is not a classic documentary. It is a
hybrid, irreverent, unconventional work that dismantles the
rhetorical scaffolding of the Italian film industry with
the same material it is made of: fiction and simulation.
A film that doesn’t ask for permission. Because the time
for requests is over.