Independent AI short-movie
next floor
This short film serves as a contemporary study of Next Floor (Denis Villeneuve, 2008), which is widely discussed for its exploration of Buñuel’s dinner-party surrealism—where social order persists even as the environment collapses.
The original film is structured as a loop: ritualized eating, structural failure, a reset, and a calm command “next floor” that transforms catastrophe into procedure. The adaptation condenses this logic into 120 seconds, maintaining the same modular structure while shifting the focus to rhythm, repetition, and escalation
Previsualization required more than just mood frames. The project depended on continuity across repeated moments in the same environment: the table, chandelier, band placement, the central void after the final fall, and the progressive layer of white dust on wardrobe and skin.
A banquet is deceptively complex; continuity of food, hands, stains, and performances quickly becomes the essence of the film. The maître’s restraint, the staff’s coordinated step-back, and the diners’ gradual surrender to appetite had to be instantly recognizable
