At the height of the Cold War, facing the threat of nuclear annihilation, a group of Hollywood filmmakers who are veterans of the atrocities of World War II unite in a top-secret program called ARCA, with the aim of preserving cinema from the end of History. Eighty years later, in the twilight of civilization, a climate colony hidden in the mountains of North America gives refuge to the last custodian of their legacy.
About the author
Lorenzo Quagliozzi
Born in Rome in 1999, he approached directing as a self-taught. After graduating high school, he participated as an intern on the set of The New Pope by Paolo Sorrentino and Exterior Night by Marco Bellocchio. Between 2018 and 2019 he curated the videographic documentation of the Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea in Rome and collaborated on the archive research for the documentary Ennio by Giuseppe Tornatore. After Illusione (2020) and Il mio cuore è vuoto come uno specchio – episode of Odessa (2022), in 2024 with De l’amour perdu he won the Nastro d’Argento for Best Short Film.