original title:
Il complotto di Tirana
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production:
Small Boss Production, with the support of Emilia-Romagna Film Commission
country:
Italy
year:
2024
film run:
71'
format:
colour
status:
Ready (01/07/2024)
festivals & awards:
December 2000. The famous photographer Oliviero Toscani accepts the invitation of Giancarlo Politi, publisher and art critic, to curate a section of the first edition of the Tirana Biennial. The photographer presents four scandalous artists, authors of works that are uncomfortable, inappropriate, even offensive to morality: Dimitri Bioy, a paedophile; Marcello Gavotta, a pornographer; Bola Equa, an activist wanted by the Nigerian government; and Hamid Picardo, Bin Laden's official photographer. This is just the beginning of what will go down as one of the biggest hoaxes in contemporary art history. Now that the statute of limitations has expired, the protagonists can finally tell the truth.