“Cinema Impero” is named after a cinema built in the centre of Asmara in 1937 during the fascist regime. As a language, cinema has always had the power to create imaginaries and, at the same time, to shape and construct narratives, especially when used as propaganda by authoritarian regimes. The new languages of present-day artificial intelligences also attempt at once to surprise and distort reality. “Cinema Impero” is a meta-narrative that brings together multiple space-time layers and different linguistic elements: video material from the Istituto Luce historical archive and the artist’s private archive, narrated and executed by two voices and two intelligences, an artificial one and an emotional one. “Cinema Impero” is a black box that encompasses the language of film, theatre and the algorithms of artificial intelligence. Within this multi-sensory device, designed for one spectator at a time, the person is placed at the centre of the macro-narratives and invited to flow towards proximity, a space of intimate otherness, between narrator and listener.