Michaelalonzo Kominsky
Producer/director of Independent films
FINAL CUT: A Novel-ish by Michael A. Kominsky
A serialized novel on SPOTIFY.COM
Fiction – the lie through which we tell the truth.
— Albert Camus
A cautionary parable of the twin existential perils of the unfettered, unregulated worship of technology, that has driven the threat of the 6th Mass Extinction from Climate Change, and now, the exponentially increasing reliance on dehumanizing, Artificial Intelligence.
Michelangelo Kozlov, a self-satisfied plutocrat and successful “media hitman”… a contract assassin of character— for the Media Mafia,—is livin’ large, when his idyllic lifestyle is shattered by a personal near fatal putative attack by Islamic terrorists a month after 9/11, provoking a painfully honest re-examination of his callow core values.
It is often said that technology is a “sword that cuts both ways. ” An idiom meaning a course of action, argument, or tool that possesses equally powerful positive … and negative consequences, or can harm the user as much as the intended target. It describes situations with significant advantages that come with equally significant risks or drawbacks.
According to Newton’s Third Law of Motion, for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.
And so it is with technology … It givith…and it taketh away …in equal measure.
As a consequence of the inherent asymmetrical time-frame of perceived benefit ratio of technology, the initial, often highly seductive benefits can obscure the long term detriment.
Does the aging filmmaker Mickey Kozlov, a once strident 60’s counterculture activist have the courage, conviction and guile to again oppose, by any means necessary, the canons and ruthless plutocrats of the same mighty “machina ex corporati” that made him very, very rich?
It’s long day’s journey in to light…so let’s get on with it…
CHAPTER 1 – 5 INTRO & PART ONE: THE BIG BOOM – RT 105 min.
- Unfettered Technology’s Existential Perils
A Family Shattered by the Big Boom - A Horrific Encounter at Moody Falls Park
- Hawk’s Past and Legal Family Influence
- A Father’s Unbearable Loss and Questions
CHAPTER 6 & 7 PART TWO: INTERLUDE: FAST FWD – BACK TO THE FUTURE: 2017 -RT 29 min.
- Meet Michelangelo Kozlov: The Storyteller’s Introduction
- How Political Restoration Stories Shape Our World
- Unfettered Technology: AI, Social Media, and Societal Decay
- Crafting a New Narrative: Fiction’s Role in Social Transformation
- From Media Hitman to Radical: A Propagandist’s Journey
- Post-9/11 Epiphany: Confronting the Unreality Industry
CHAPTER 8 & 9 -RT 27 min.
- My dinner with Ivan and Sanjana Tarnowski
A Dinner of Grief and Shared Memories - Remembering dearly depared Monique and Ivan’s Activist Legacy
- Climate Change and Unfettered Technology’s Existential Perils
CHAPTER 10 – RT 15 min.
- The Perils of Unregulated Technology and Capitalism’s Societal Failure
- Legislative Steps to Regulate Algorithms and Digital Platforms
- Redefining Social Order: Climate Change and the Risk of Tech Addiction
- The Corpocracy’s Surveillance and a Call for a Neo Renaissance
CHAPTER 11 – RT 29 min.
- How Film Shapes Society: From Propaganda to Progress
- The Perils of Modern Propaganda and Artistic Responsibility
- Why Artists are Prophets: Guardians of Hope and Truth
- Why Artists are Prophets: Guardians of Hope and Truth
- Gandhi, MLK, and the Cost of Peaceful Protest
- How General Strikes Toppled Communism in Poland
CHAPTER 12 – RT 27 min.
- Learning from History to Challenge Capitalism’s Failures
- Why the Corrupt System Needs Complete Demolition
- American Exceptionalism and Global Capitalism’s Crises
- Facing the Dire Consequences of Climate Change
- Reflecting on Past Principles and Unfinished Business
- Preparing for Survival and a More Egalitarian Future