Hollywood's darkest secret outlives the apocalypse. What did Hitchcock's ghosts bury?
At the height of the Cold War, facing the threat of nuclear annihilation, a group of Hollywood filmmakers—haunted by the horrors of World War II—bands together in a secret programme known as ARCA. A hundred years later, their legacy is our last hope.
Cinematography
Century-spanning visuals that collapse time into single frames.
Direction
Quagliozzi packs feature-film ambition into breathless minutes.
Sound
Voice work bridges eras—ghosts speaking through static.
Director
Lorenzo Quagliozzi
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
ARCA shares its name with a real Italian aerospace company founded in 1999, perhaps slyly suggesting all space programs carry cinematic DNA.
The 'secret programme' structure mirrors actual Cold War operations like MKUltra, but replaces psychological warfare with artistic preservation—asking whether creation or destruction is the greater weapon.
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