25/03/2026 - Produced by WILD FILMMAKER and directed by Michele Diomà, the movie “combines the production and aesthetic principles of the Nouvelle Vague with AI animation”

“A film that combines the production and aesthetic principles of the Nouvelle Vague with AI animation.” This sentence sums up the starting point from which Comedy of the Moon was born. It’s an independent animated film dedicated to the history of cinema, told through the fable of a cat dressed as a Native American who travels among the stars aboard a flying tricycle, accompanied by a tribal chief inspired by Federico Fellini.

The cinephile feline explores planets inhabited by David Lynch, Jean Vigo, François Truffaut, Stanley Kubrick, Agnès Varda, Mario Bava, Pier Paolo Pasolini and other great figures of cinema. His journey begins with Georges Méliès and a possible link between painting and cinema found in a work exhibited at the MoMA, the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Produced by WILD FILMMAKER, Comedy of the Moon is directed by Michele Diomà, a filmmaker whose previous indie works include collaborations with Academy Award winner James Ivory and Nobel Prize winner Dario Fo.

In an exclusive statement, Diomà said: “We are living in an historic moment of epochal change for cinema. Let’s remember what happened with the arrival of sound at the end of the 1920s – it was a shock, and many stars’ careers ended abruptly, but a new way of making films was born. AI is an ‘earthquake’ in the film industry 1,000 times more powerful than the transition from silent films to sound. I am very happy that Comedy of the Moon is the first film dedicated to the history of cinema created largely using AI animation. AI is nothing more than a tool – like a camera for a filmmaker or a brush for a painter.”

According to Diomà, what truly makes a difference in artistic creation is originality and creativity, not the tools used to achieve it. “Up until a few years ago, producing an animated film like Comedy of the Moon would have required a much larger budget than the one we had, even with the help of AI. That’s why AI has made the seventh art more democratic and will increasingly become an opportunity for independent producers.”

Comedy of the Moon is the result of a major technological evolution and is aimed at audiences of all ages, from four years old and up. It reflects on what cinema was in the past century, when it reached its most important moments with directors such as Truffaut, Godard and Fellini, but also with Pixar under Steve Jobs – creatives who had the courage to challenge the rules of cinema.

The film contains many tributes, from a dreamlike reinterpretation of Fritz Lang’s masterpiece Metropolis on its 100th anniversary to references to Ingmar Bergman, Akira Kurosawa, Orson Welles and more.

Currently in its final stages,
COMEDY OF THE MOON is a United States–Italy co-production.
Production: WILD FILMMAKER
Written, directed, and illustrated by: Michele Diomà
Animation and Editing by: Lorenzo Scibilia