What if your escape key was broken and you were the glitch?
A girl trapped in a time loop leaves an AI replica to relive her final days. Glitches and burned-in subtitles reveal the machine’s fractured view, until the loop shifts to the real her — blurring the line between memory, code, and consciousness. "Told from the memory stream of a trapped A.I., the film visually glitches as it attempts to 'escape,' including encoded flashes of an 'ESC' key."
Cinematography
Intentional degradation: burned subtitles, scan lines, compression artifacts as storytelling.
Editing
The loop mechanics—when AI memory slips, reality frays beautifully.
Production
DIY 1980s aesthetic that feels authentically scavenged, not nostalgically manufactured.
Director
Dave H. Macon
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The 75-minute runtime isn't economical—it's algorithmic, mimicking how AIs process time in compressed bursts.
Director Dave H. Macon allegedly corrupted actual VHS tapes to achieve authentic tracking errors; some 'glitches' are unplanned tape damage.
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