SCMYJaehong An with Soyeong Choi and 1 other
ABOUT
In 2077, a 112-year-old cleaner moves through a sterile data facility while addressing the daughter she lost fifty-one years earlier. In a society that prolongs life without consent, she sabotages the machines that sustain its order, believing death will finally reunite them. Instead, she is sentenced to ninety years of cryonic imprisonment, her memory scheduled to be erased before she awakens in 2167. Told through an intimate human voice and AI-generated images, MSC: CRM 90 is a dystopian meditation on grief, longevity, and the right to let go.
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PROCESS
MSC: CRM-90 began with a question: does endless technological progress lead to a happier future for everyone? I first wrote an essay-form script, then worked with an actor to record the narration. A simplified storyboard helped communicate the scenes and their emotional context to the actor. The visual world centered on a contrast between an almost impossibly smooth city and an aging figure marked by wrinkles, bare feet, and physical vulnerability. I deliberately sought distance from familiar science-fiction imagery. Ferrofluid became a reference for the world’s underlying technology, informing its flowing movement, viscosity, and material behavior. Using the actor’s face as a reference, I generated images in Midjourney and animated them with Seedance 2.0 through the Runway platform. I divided the narration into sections and developed the corresponding shots around them. The production generated 880 video clips, including unused iterations. Emotional continuity guided the selection: each shot needed to sustain the feeling established by the surrounding scenes. Keeping the character and cart consistent required extensive iteration. The road-crossing sequence was particularly demanding, involving traffic movement, the character’s direction, and the way the cart tipped over. The chamber sequence required repeated work to maintain spatial and mechanical continuity as its doors opened and closed. Throughout these revisions, I evaluated how each result served the film’s emotional progression. I edited the film in Adobe Premiere Pro, using the recorded narration to structure the sequence. Music was created with Suno, and sound effects were generated with ElevenLabs and Varco Sound.
Credits
- Jaehong AnCreatorVIEW PROFILE →
- Soyeong ChoiWriter
- Mihyun YoonActor (Voice)
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