Marat Sargsyan to Follow Venice’s ‘The Flood Won’t Come’ With ‘The Grand Inquisitor,’ Centering on a Malevolent AI Protagonist

What if a new Messiah appeared today, but his supernatural power was to release people’s intimate videos unprompted? Such a beguiling premise shapes Armenian Vilnius-based director Marat Sargsyan’s sophomore feature, “The Grand Inquisitor.” In it, the omnipotent creature is an AI that looks like a human being and has a human name, Vermis. Soon, his […]