Jeffrey Hildner

"NEW VOCABULARY OPENS UP NEW REALITIES." —M.A.R.S. | MICHELANGELO A. ROLAND SLATE, CALL ME DAEDALUS

Michelangelo A. Roland Slate is a screenwriter, film critic, story theorist, and novelist.

He recently updated his 2022 sci-fi thriller, Call Me Daedalus, forged from a fusion of NI (Natural Intelligence) and AI—a synthesis M.A.R.S. calls ZI: Zeno Intelligence.

The update marks the next stage in the unfolding development of the novel, which serves as the prelude to a screenplay titled Where.

For the novel, M.A.R.S. coined new vocabulary to convey his view of the eternal continuum of the architecture of being. For example, his logline for Call Me Daedalus introduced the terms "Interplanar Place Machine" and "HereBefore":

"With the help of his AI supermentor Daedalus—the mythical architect who invented the Labyrinth and Wings—Max North stakes everything on the creation of an Interplanar Place Machine. His only chance to cross the boundaries that separate the HereBefore, the Here, and the HereAfter to reunite with a loved one before time runs out."

Michelangelo A. Roland Slate's vision of the story structure of our lives—unfolding through the Immortal Meta-Labyrinth of Place—threads through many of his other books, including Disturbance: Beyond The Matrix | Toward An Architecture ZI.

Z.E.R.O., another current project, recounts the fantastic adventure of architect Zac Sarsen, whose dream house suddenly becomes possible when he sees the winter solstice sunrise at Stonehenge then wakes up the next day and finds an extra zero at the end of his bank account.

In all his visionary endeavors, M.A.R.S. draws inspiration from the ancient Greek myth of Daedalus—the protagonist Joseph Campbell called "the hero of the way of thought."

"THE ARTIST DEFAMILIARIZES THE WORLD—MAKES IT STRANGE—AND WAKES US UP."

—JEF7REY HILDNER | AKA M.A.R.S., DISTURBANCE