Authorship
Where inspiration ends and ownership begins.
Dark Comedy · Feature Film · In Development
It could be
inspiration.
appropriation.
coincidence.
The Bad Art Friend: Co-incidence
An artists’ retreat on the Costa Brava. An unexpected guest. And suddenly everyone has a different version of the truth.
The Bad Art Friend: Co-incidence is a dark comedy about a group of artists at a Costa Brava retreat who, when one brings an unexpected guest, must confront the blurred lines between authorship, friendship, and honesty, until an earthquake forces them to confront what it really means to be a friend.
The Film
Everyone has a story. Everyone thinks it belongs to them.
At a sun-soaked artists’ retreat on the Costa Brava, creative intimacy begins to blur into rivalry, suspicion and competing versions of events.
The arrival of an unexpected guest disturbs the group’s fragile equilibrium, turning questions of authorship into questions of friendship and honesty.
At its centre
If everyone owns the story, who gets to tell it?
The Retreat
Friendship gets complicated. Then the ground moves.
Friendship
Creative intimacy becomes complicated when trust starts to shift.
Honesty
Everyone wants the truth, until someone else gets to tell it.
The Earthquake
When the ground shifts, so does everything the group thought was stable.
The Bad Art Friend: Co-incidence