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Films made the new way.

Original films built from the music outward — every picture written, cast, scored, and shot entirely in-house by one director and his AI production partner. Click any poster to step inside.

The films
The showcase · Now in production
EMBER — a small glowing ember with a cracked shell and molten heart in a dark ash bed
The studio's first animated picture
Ember
One small light against the whole cold night.

The last ember of a dying campfire has until dawn to relight the fire before the frost reaches the family sleeping beside it. Scored note-for-note to Martin Landh's "Guna" — hear the track, meet the smallest hero the studio has ever cast, and watch the frost come for the blanket's edge.

Enter the night →
Coming 2026 · In production

The features

Now showing

Released

In the writers’ room

What’s next

DEAD AIR poster
Story in development
Dead Air
Dark synthwave noir — the artifacts of a film that doesn't exist. Yet.

The key art and a teaser were built first, the way you'd find relics of a lost picture. Now it enters the pipeline for real: the track hunt is next, and the story that survives the listen becomes the film.

Never the End

Film 001 of the score-story series — a 3:16 silent chase written beat-for-beat on a Stefan Ekstrom track. Cast locked, canon sheets drawn, waiting for its shoot.

Two untitled pictures

The studio picks its next two worlds this week. The rule never changes: the music leads, and no story survives unless it can hold a full listen with your eyes closed.