Paris international fantastic film festival 2025
Several years after the impact of the meteorite which on its course to ground burned down the roof of Notre dame, violently ruptured a housing block and killed dozens, EM Industries will finally open its gates at the quai d’orleans and unravel the mysteries around the end of this rocks journey and the start of Elizabeth Murdoch’s disappearance.
After dedicating all that Elizabeth Murdoch was to the research of what she called extraterrestrial life the documentary around her work and disappearance will open this years PIFFF hosted at the now public EMI-Building.
Al Berti the worlds most renowned art and film critic glances at the EMI-building noting:
I go as slow as I can. (1)
Some parts of the old buildings were still standing after the impact, like a skeleton, then they added the sinews and muscles, and finally clothe the bones and muscles with flesh and skin. (2)
The infill is placed between the bones, the openings, and the other parts. (3) An Enquiry of the utmost Difficulty; for whatever that Property be which is so gathered and collected from the whole Number and Nature of the several Parts, or to be imparted to each of them according to a certain and regular Order, or which must be contrived in such a Manner as to join and unite a certain Number of Parts into one Body or Whole, by an orderly and sure Coherence and Agreement of all those Parts: Which Property is what we are here to discover; it is certain, such a Property must have in itself something of the Force and Spirit of all the Parts with which it is either united or mixed. (4)
Whatever the mix, you must constantly knead it until even the smallest particles are absorbed. (5)
While entering the building he realises that this truly is a city within the city
For one Situation and one Space is allotted to an Exchange, another to a Theatre, another to a Place of Exercise, and another to a Temple (6); probably the place Elizabeth lived in through the time she spent in here.
Woe to the Woman who desires to be a parasite! (7)
I think its time to follow the others to the cinema
Wanting the unknown (a documentary)
Research log 1: I want to make something where I don’t know what it’s going to be’. The start of a new work itself, more often than not, is fired by no more than an ‘itch’, a curiosity about something yet to be named or seen. (8) This is my home. It may be the proof I need and I need something, Galaxy knows to awaken the Foundation. (9)
The time and energy to make up new things seems appropriate to such directly empathic situations. (10)
Research log 2: In order to know, therefore, how to conclude many things from the principles proper to them, which is nothing other than having science, it is first necessary to acquire intellect—that is, the habit that knows the principles, which I here would call ‘understanding’ so as to not mix the terminology of things. (11) This lab will grow the more knowledge we accumulate around this rock.
Research log 3: “It seems the walls we built around the meteorite can’t hold the brute force this strange rock emits when tried to approach it. it was a force to be reckoned with. (12) Most of my researchers quit and some already feel sick. This mustn’t reach the outer world.
Research log 5: I went to bed but could not sleep. At three or four in the morning I turned on the light. I took out the impossible book and turned its pages. On one, I saw an engraving of a mask. (13) …I put one on and I was able to approach, closer than anybody before me…I don’t need the others…they must leave us alone here.
Research log 8: This strange voice is still talking to me. Just like the parasite, the background noise never ceases (14).…it seems it knows much more about us, our history and our future than we dared to believe. It seems to know more than everything…
Research log 21: Day 20 of exposing terrestrial life to the new life form. This life form seems to have characteristics of a symbiont…
Or something like a parasite, with which we must negotiate a contract of symbiosis? (15)….I can’t help thinking that they are looking for a worthy life…it must be me.. I need to try it.
Research log 34: I know what I need to do…I have to stop it from happening..
Research log 144: the room with the meteorite is in flames. Elizabeth still not to be seen.
In loving memory of Elizabeth
As the curtain falls a woman in the front row starts to clap, stands up and says with a strange glow in her eyes: “Wow, you never seize to amaze me with your stupidity, now everybody knows. I’m back by the way…
The hall became very bright as Photographers on every other seat flashed their cameras.”
(1) Alberti, The Family in Renaissance Florence
(3) Williams, Daniele Barbaros Vitruvius of 1567
(4) Alberti, 10 books of architecture 1755
(5) Alberti, On the Art of Building in Ten Books 1988
(6) Alberti, 10 books of architecture 1755
(8) Mieves, Wonder in Contemporary Artistic Practice
(9) Asimov, Complete Robot Anthology
(10) Boradkar, Encountering Things Design and Theories of Things
(11) Williams, Daniele Barbaros Vitruvius of 1567
(12) Steinberg, Gotham Unbound To De Witt
(13) Borges, Collected Fictions
(15) Serres Latour, Conversations on Science Culture and Time