– Montel, during the visit:
“As I was saying, with a small group of actors and actresses, we are restaging the Simulationist experience. They were artists who refused the monopolization of technological progress by liberal and capitalist movements. They advocated instead for a radical and social accelerationism. Why not, after all? The Simulationists — for that is what they were called — saw in computer simulation a powerful technical tool for critical and social emancipation. A tool, or rather a constellation of tools, that had to be seized. At the time, the motto was: simulate to anticipate, anticipate to improve, improve to emancipate, emancipate to survive. Therefore, one had to simulate in order to survive.”
Through repeated iterations, viewed from different angles, the film shows a group of characters immersed in a stuttering learning experience. Inspired by the experimental models of the architects’ collective, Archizoom, and the funfair hall of mirrors, Simulation Comedy functions like a forever unfinished pilot episode.