What started as an experiment turned into something very personal.
I wanted to see if I could tell a story the old-fashioned way, through dialogue, timing, awkward silences, and people with flaws.
No masked sci-fi creatures. No abstract voice-over explaining the theme. Just characters trying to connect, and sometimes failing.
The tech challenge was very real though. Every generated shot was limited to 8 seconds, which turns emotional continuity into a bit of a puzzle. Holding a performance, matching eyelines, connecting reactions, all of that suddenly becomes editing gymnastics. Fun ones. Sometimes painful ones.
A bigger challenge was resisting the temptation to lean on spectacle. AI makes it very easy to impress. It’s much harder to stay small, human, and a little uncomfortable. That’s where I wanted this film to live.
What is about aging, miscommunication, loneliness, and the quiet hope that you might still be understood if you try one more time.
I made it because I wanted to see if traditional storytelling still holds up inside a very new medium. For me, it does.