Veritas no verum

“Veritas No Verum” tells the story of Matteo Venturi, a brilliant scientist and inventor of a machine capable of exposing lies, the Tanatoscope.

Together with psychologist Silvia Ferrante, Matteo tests the device on his own relationship with Valeria, turning a scientific experiment into an increasingly intense emotional confrontation. Every word is filtered by the machine, bringing to the surface fragilities, suspicions and unspoken truths.

The short film unfolds as a game of mirrors in which truth seems finally within reach, while at the same time raising the doubt that the real deception may lie not only within the characters, but within the device itself.

The work draws inspiration from the cinema of Federico Fellini, particularly in its exploration of the boundary between reality, fiction and self-deception, developing the theme of the “lie within the lie”: the characters not only deceive one another, but are also embedded within a narrative structure that reflects and amplifies this condition.