The Chaos Paradigm – Image, Power, and the Dissolution of the Real

In 2011, Anita Likmeta wrote and directed The Chaos Paradigm, a documentary that reflects on the transformations of the contemporary world, exploring the relationship between image, mass media, and the construction of reality. Conceived in Paris, the project began as a study—and remains one. For over a decade, it has continued to evolve as a living investigation, in constant transformation, into the nature of our hyperreality. In an era where information is simultaneity and overload, where communication no longer describes reality but reshapes it, Likmeta explores the implications of this mutation through conversations with figures of extraordinary intellectual and artistic depth. Still in development, the documentary resists a definitive form. It is a work in motion—a narrative not of the past, but of the future. Its incompletion is intentional: the reality it seeks to understand is still unfolding. Observing it, mapping it, intuiting it takes time. This is a film that listens before it speaks. Among the voices involved: Ismail Kadare, regarded as Albania’s greatest writer, translated and studied worldwide—an unparalleled interpreter of power, trauma, and ideological collapse. Kiki Picasso, a subversive and provocative graphic artist whose work anticipated the visual vertigo of our digital present. Tanino Liberatore, the visionary architect of a hyperrealist and fantastical imagination. The Chaos Paradigm is not only an inquiry into the media, but a meditation on the human condition in the age of hypercommunication. Does a reality still exist outside its own representation? Or is chaos no longer a rupture in order, but its new configuration? A work that offers no answers—but raises essential questions. An open space for reflection on a world changing at a pace never seen before.