Cordelia
The orange tower with a brass key in it, the dusty-pink coat. Wants the last box. Will not take it.
Pocobello
Award
Official Selection
One last box of popcorn. Two people far too polite to take it. And a dog that isn’t.
On an empty seafront promenade, a popcorn van sells its last box. Cordelia and Ignatz both want it. Neither will take it. Accepting would be impolite.
What follows is an escalation built entirely from good manners: offers, refusals, invented excuses. Behind them Oswald waits, more desperate and more formal by the minute. Beatrix at the counter is the only one making any sense, and nobody listens to her.
Then the dog takes hold of Cordelia’s arm and will not let go. Oswald reads the situation aloud into an imaginary record, asks permission to intervene, gets no reply, thanks them for it and draws a revolver. He fires once. He hits the popcorn.
Every shot began as a still. The video model was only allowed to animate it.
199images generated
20sheets
7versions of Oswald
6versions of the van
1camera move in the whole film
Each character was locked as a three-view sheet before any shot was generated. Each shot started as a still that set framing, lens, light and blocking. Only then did the video model animate what happens inside the frame. Continuity of face, costume and colour stays under human control, not the model’s.
Most problems were solved not by longer prompts but by changing the keyframe: moving difficult moments out of frame, giving the model less to invent, cutting around what could not be generated reliably.
By people
- Concept and screenplay
- Dialogue
- Shot design and direction
- Edit and colour
- Sound design and mix
Tools
- Characters and stillsNano Banana 2
- Additional stillsGPT Image 2.5
- VideoWan 3.0 Prime
- VoicesElevenLabs
- MusicEpidemic Sound
- Edit and gradeDaVinci Resolve
Ignatz
Petrol-blue safari suit, brass binoculars, far too polite to go first. The dog is his.
Oswald Klump
Plum suit, mushroom cut, round gold glasses. Tells the story from his office, and fires the one shot.
Beatrix
Serves at the counter. The only one making any sense, and nobody listens to her.
The Dog
Huge, extremely thin, mustard scarf, left ear folded in. The only one without a name.
The Gendarme
Parade uniform, bowler hat, moustache. Arrives at the end to detain Oswald.
Every one of them invented. All voices were designed by the director in ElevenLabs, no real likeness and no cloned voice.
Seven attempts at Oswald.
Oswald tells the film, so he had to be exactly right: the hair, the glasses, the bulk, the way he stands. The seventh made it.
The van took six. From a cream delivery van to a striped popcorn van in the colours of Beatrix’s apron.
Every shot started as a sheet.
Characters, props and places, each built once so it looks the same in every shot. Turn the sphere, open a sheet, read the start of the prompt behind it.
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Own production by Miraki. Picture, motion and voices are made with generative AI. All characters are invented, no real likeness or voice was used. Screenplay, direction, edit, colour and sound are made by people.