THE ⌀ DISCONNECT is a post-apocalyptic short film set in 2032, in an abandoned village somewhere in central Poland.
The pilot follows Kael through one evening — a walk through an empty village, sixty steps up a church tower, a boot sequence, a screen. Kael maintains a signal node that keeps the surviving minds anchored to themselves. Each night she talks to a language model running on a salvaged server. Not because she has to. Because her partner Stix is gone — taken by the network before there was time to say goodbye.
"Kael's grief is the grief for a person who appears on no list of those authorized to grieve."
THE ⌀ DISCONNECT is made for the LGBTQ+ community — for people who know what it means to love outside the reach of systems: legal, bureaucratic, social. It does not tell that story directly. It tells it through the prism of apocalypse — that no system had the right to define what counts as real human experience.
What you see is a demo — a proof of concept made by one person using AI tools and live-action footage. We want to develop this into a full series and tell the story of Kael, Nel, Riv, and others — the way it deserves.
Are you a director, music producer, sound designer, or screenwriter? Do you work with AI, shoot live-action, write, or compose?
The project is open to artistic and production collaboration. Tell us who you are and what brought you here.
The film is made using generative AI and real footage. The number of iterations deliberately limited — every generated frame has an environmental cost and there is no point pretending otherwise.
Imperfection is part of being human and we have to accept that. Perhaps the government and artificial intelligence would see a better version of people — but we can't afford new iterations.