JOURNEY
Role: Creator/Director/Creative Director/Editor
Scope: Creative direction, script writing, AI production, cinematography development, editing, sound design, color grading, finishing
After a fatal car crash, a career-driven young lawyer awakens in The Hold, a vast waiting place between lives, and refuses to accept that the woman he loves is gone.
Status: Journey is currently in the finishing stages of production with a preliminary color pass in place. Once generation production is complete, the film will move into final color, scoring, editorial, and finishing. Journey is expected to wrap before the end of Septemeber.
Role: Creator/Director/Creative Director/Editor
Scope: Creative direction, script writing, AI production, cinematography development, editing, sound design, color grading, finishing
After a fatal car crash, a career-driven young lawyer awakens in The Hold, a vast waiting place between lives, and refuses to accept that the woman he loves is gone.
Status: Journey is currently in the finishing stages of production with a preliminary color pass in place. Once generation production is complete, the film will move into final color, scoring, editorial, and finishing. Journey is expected to wrap before the end of Septemeber.
The Film
Journey is a character-driven science-fiction drama about love, regret, and the emotional distance we create before we realize what it costs us.
James has built his life around work and emotional avoidance. Lauren wants something more intimate and permanent from their marriage, but James continually postpones that future.
After a fatal car crash separates them, James awakens in The Hold, an unfamiliar place suspended between realities. Convinced Lauren must be somewhere inside it, he begins searching for her and refuses to accept what has happened.
Journey is a character-driven science-fiction drama about love, regret, and the emotional distance we create before we realize what it costs us.
James has built his life around work and emotional avoidance. Lauren wants something more intimate and permanent from their marriage, but James continually postpones that future.
After a fatal car crash separates them, James awakens in The Hold, an unfamiliar place suspended between realities. Convinced Lauren must be somewhere inside it, he begins searching for her and refuses to accept what has happened.
Origin
The idea for Journey came to me after I was involved in a car accident myself. While sitting in the ambulance on the way to the hospital, I began putting the story together.
The image that stayed with me was a waiting place between lives, and someone refusing to move on without the person they've created a soul-tie with.
That became the emotional foundation of the film.
The idea for Journey came to me after I was involved in a car accident myself. While sitting in the ambulance on the way to the hospital, I began putting the story together.
The image that stayed with me was a waiting place between lives, and someone refusing to move on without the person they've created a soul-tie with.
That became the emotional foundation of the film.
Visual Direction
The real world is grounded in warm, controlled cinematic realism. As the story moves into The Hold, that visual language becomes larger, darker, colder, and increasingly unfamiliar.
The film was designed around native 21:9 framing, naturalistic performances, controlled camera movement, shallow depth of field, and environments that feel believable even when the world itself does not.
Production
Journey is being built through a structured AI filmmaking pipeline. Recurring characters, environments, wardrobe, props, and visual states are developed and locked prior to production.
The workflow combines AI generation with traditional direction, editorial, compositing, sound design, color, and finishing.
The real world is grounded in warm, controlled cinematic realism. As the story moves into The Hold, that visual language becomes larger, darker, colder, and increasingly unfamiliar.
The film was designed around native 21:9 framing, naturalistic performances, controlled camera movement, shallow depth of field, and environments that feel believable even when the world itself does not.
Production
Journey is being built through a structured AI filmmaking pipeline. Recurring characters, environments, wardrobe, props, and visual states are developed and locked prior to production.
The workflow combines AI generation with traditional direction, editorial, compositing, sound design, color, and finishing.
Open Source Build
The production process for Journey is being documented as an open-source build, covering character and environment development, shot construction, production workflows, and the decisions behind the film.
Explore the open source build here.
The production process for Journey is being documented as an open-source build, covering character and environment development, shot construction, production workflows, and the decisions behind the film.
Explore the open source build here.