BAFF 2025

The Tirana Conspiracy

Manfredi Lucibello, Italy 2024 ⁄ 71' ⁄ ST - OND: FR

Something is rotten in the kingdom of art: revisiting one of the greatest contemporary art frauds. In December 2000, a celebrated photographer, invited by an influential critic, selects four “artists” for a supposedly groundbreaking Biennale. Their work is indefensible—artistically, aesthetically, and ethically—yet the art world embraces it. Tirana Conspiracy reconstructs the scandal through unseen testimonies and archival footage, exposing a system more corrupt than it appears.