ESCAPE VELOCITY

Film 1 of 3 · September 2026 · 5:06

A techwear fashion show where every Look is a Silicon Valley meme, walked by an AI model who is also a fashion model. A split-flap board counts down 18 MONTHS TO ESCAPE THE PERMANENT UNDERCLASS until it flips to THERE IS NO UNDERCLASS and the catwalk lifts off.

The images How it was made The post on X ↗

Song: 5:06 · Suno v6 · 131.5 → 133.9 BPM
Edit: 141 shots · 9 chapters · every word on screen
Midjourney: 188 prompts · 636 images · 130 plates
Seedance 2.5: 47 clips + 30 continuations · ≈ $93
Made in: about 19 hours · about 50 notes from the director

The film

27 frames from the finished cut

Blue-black night and steel blue, one red lamp as the only warm light, a colour halftone over everything, garment tags, split-flap boards and computer-vision boxes tracked to her. She wears look 00: a white cropped puff-sleeve shirt, a black pleated skirt in coated nylon with a harness belt and a hanging garment tag, black knee boots.

Midjourney

Every image the film generated · open one for its prompt

92 images

medium shot of a young woman with a glossy black blunt bob with heavy bangs and one clay-orange streak, a white cropped puff-sleeve shirt, a black pleated skirt with a harness belt and a hanging white garment tag,…

hall-ms · #3

hall-ms · #4

full-length shot of a young woman with a glossy black blunt bob with heavy bangs and one clay-orange streak, a white cropped puff-sleeve shirt, a black pleated skirt with a harness belt and a hanging white garment…

hall-turn · #3

looking up at a huge blank white billboard on a steel pole above the 101 freeway at dawn in thick fog, the billboard face flat and empty, powerlines, grey sky, monochrome, fine grain, no text, no letters, no logos

billboard-blank · #1

billboard-blank · #4

medium close-up of a young woman with a glossy black blunt bob with heavy bangs and one clay-orange streak, a white cropped puff-sleeve shirt, a black pleated skirt with a harness belt and a hanging white garment…

flap-cu · #4

a dozen white driverless robotaxis stranded among cypress trees in the Presidio in thick fog at dawn, their roof sensors still spinning, headlights on, no people, monochrome, fine grain, no text, no letters, no logos

presidio · #2

a young woman with a glossy black blunt bob with heavy bangs and one clay-orange streak, a white cropped puff-sleeve shirt, a black pleated skirt with a harness belt and a hanging white garment tag, black knee-high…

moat · #1

a single empty folding chair in a front row lit by one spotlight, a staff lanyard badge lying on the seat, darkness around, fog, cinematic 35mm film still, fine silver grain, blue-black night palette, one small red…

empty-seat · #3

freeway-dawn · #2

extreme macro photograph of a blank white woven garment tag with a barcode area and a stitched hem hanging from a black pleated coated-nylon skirt, shallow focus, monochrome, the tag face empty for printing, no text,…

tag-macro · #1

tag-macro · #2

extreme macro photograph of a blank white satin care label sewn into a white technical fabric seam, soft raking light, high-key, the label face empty, fine grain, no text, no letters, no logos

care-label · #3

a white driverless robotaxi with a spinning roof sensor stopped at the far end of a long wet concrete catwalk inside a colossal dark server hall, its rear door swinging open, a silhouetted crowd holding glowing…

waymo-arrive · #4

a white wireframe grid test arena floor and walls peeling away like paper to reveal a dark foggy city behind, a young Caucasian American woman with pale skin and light freckles, a glossy black blunt jaw-length bob…

arena · #1

a colossal mechanical split-flap departures board hanging in a dark concrete hall, all flaps blank black, a young Caucasian American woman with pale skin and light freckles, a glossy black blunt jaw-length bob with…

flap-wide · #1

flap-wide · #2

a young Caucasian American woman with pale skin and light freckles, a glossy black blunt jaw-length bob with heavy bangs and one clay-orange streak through the bangs, a small flat clay-orange eight-pointed star hair…

freeway-dawn · #2

close-up portrait of a young Caucasian American woman with pale skin and light freckles, a glossy black blunt jaw-length bob with heavy bangs and one clay-orange streak through the bangs, a small flat clay-orange…

hall-cu · #1

hall-cu · #3

a driverless white robotaxi stopped in a Mission District street at night while fireworks burst low overhead and sparks rain onto its roof, smoke, a young Caucasian American woman with pale skin and light freckles, a…

mission-fire · #2

an elevated concrete freeway ramp that ends abruptly in the air against a pure white overexposed sky, a young Caucasian American woman with pale skin and light freckles, a glossy black blunt jaw-length bob with heavy…

ramp-white · #1

a pile of sneakers and slides outside the glass door of a startup office in North Beach at night, a sign-less door, a young Caucasian American woman with pale skin and light freckles, a glossy black blunt jaw-length…

shoes-off · #1

takeoff · #1

takeoff · #2

waymo-seat · #3

close-up of a young Caucasian American woman with pale skin and light freckles,'s hand pulling a black utility harness strap tight over a black pleated coated-nylon skirt, a white garment tag with a barcode hanging…

n-P04 · #3

low-angle full-length view of a young Caucasian American woman with pale skin and light freckles, a glossy black blunt jaw-length bob with heavy bangs and one clay-orange streak through the bangs, a small flat…

n-P11 · #1

n-P11 · #3

medium close-up of a young Caucasian American woman with pale skin and light freckles, a glossy black blunt jaw-length bob with heavy bangs and one clay-orange streak through the bangs, a small flat clay-orange…

n-P12 · #3

macro of thirteen small square silver desktop computers stacked on a wire shelf, each with a tiny white status light and one red, tangled cables, hacker house at night, the left third dark, blue-black #0f1216 and…

n-P14 · #3

n-P15 · #3

a black leather jacket hanging alone on a hook in a hacker house kitchen at night, a rotating red alarm beacon on top of a fridge, a young Caucasian American woman with pale skin and light freckles, a glossy black…

n-P16 · #1

n-P17 · #3

close-up of the plain front panel of a washed black baseball cap worn by a young Caucasian American woman with pale skin and light freckles, a glossy black blunt jaw-length bob with heavy bangs and one clay-orange…

n-P18 · #1

n-P18 · #2

n-P20 · #1

extreme close-up of a slim glass thermometer pendant on a long steel chain resting on a white cropped shirt, the mercury halfway, dark background, the right half empty, blue-black #0f1216 and steel blue, one small…

n-P24 · #3

n-P25 · #3

n-P27 · #4

n-P28 · #1

n-P28 · #3

close-up of a young Caucasian American woman with pale skin and light freckles, a glossy black blunt jaw-length bob with heavy bangs and one clay-orange streak through the bangs, a small flat clay-orange…

n-P33 · #2

close-up of a black knee-high boot pressing flat on the bare floor of a driverless robotaxi, no pedals, no steering wheel, night light sweeping across, blue-black night turning to first light, clay-orange #D97757…

n-P34 · #3

a dark crowd of front-row spectators raising glowing phones above their heads in a data hall, backlit fog, warm light from a giant board behind, blue-black night turning to first light, clay-orange #D97757 light as…

n-P35 · #3

n-P36 · #3

a front-row spectator in a plain white t-shirt seated in the dark, arms folded, face cropped at the chin, warm light, blue-black night turning to first light, clay-orange #D97757 light as the only colour, fine grain,…

n-P37 · #3

n-P43 · #1

n-P51 · #3

n-P52 · #2

three white reclining treatment chairs in a row in a pale concrete room, ring lights above each, a young Caucasian American woman with pale skin and light freckles, a glossy black blunt jaw-length bob with heavy…

n-P53 · #2

n-P58 · #1

n-P58 · #2

a line of spectators along a freeway barrier at dawn holding phones up, fog below, pale dawn grey-white, soft even light, a single clay-orange #D97757 accent, fine grain, calm, no text, no letters, no logos

n-P64 · #4

n-P71 · #4

extreme close-up of an eight-pointed clay-orange spark hair clip in black hair against white, high-key white paper, one clay-orange #D97757 accent as the only colour, soft shadowless light, no text, no letters, no logos

n-P74 · #2

boot-tag · #4

podcast · #2

extreme wide shot of a vast empty grey concrete hall with a perfect grid of small painted floor marks receding to the horizon, a young Caucasian American woman with pale skin and light freckles, a glossy black blunt…

grid-hall · #1

grid-hall · #3

medium close-up of two identical copies of a young Caucasian American woman with pale skin and light freckles, a glossy black blunt jaw-length bob with heavy bangs and one clay-orange streak through the bangs, a…

two-of-her · #4

low close-up of a black knee boot stamping down on pale concrete, a puff of dust, a pleated black skirt hem at the top of the frame, no face, pale dawn grey-white, soft even light, a sea of fog below, one small…

boot-stamp · #2

rail-mcu · #1

bridge-cu · #4

white-cu · #3

straight-down aerial of a vast datacenter roof with hundreds of identical round cooling fans in a grid like a city, white haze, the black pleated skirt hem and two black knee boots at the top edge of the frame,…

datacenter-roof · #3

medium shot of a young Caucasian American woman with pale skin and light freckles, a glossy black blunt jaw-length bob with heavy bangs and one clay-orange streak through the bangs, a small flat clay-orange…

veil-monitor · #2

wide shot of a chain-link construction fence at the edge of a vast empty desert site, one blank laminated notice cable-tied to it and flapping, high-key white sky, no people, high-key white paper light, almost no…

fence-notice · #3

wide shot of eleven headless dress forms lined along an endless white catwalk, dressed in a washed black dad cap, a black leather jacket, a sheer organza shell, a pale cashmere hoodie with a badge, narrow sunglasses,…

dressforms · #4

wide shot of a small black split-flap board with blank flaps alone on a seamless white paper wall, a young Caucasian American woman with pale skin and light freckles, a glossy black blunt jaw-length bob with heavy…

paper-board · #1

tag-to-lens · #1

extreme wide shot from a high overpass of a fogged eight-lane freeway at night, rows of enormous blank billboards on steel poles receding into the fog, streams of red tail lights, one small white compact electric SUV…

waymo-101 · #1

penrose-hands · #3

white-cu-b · #4

close-up from a low angle of a young Caucasian American woman with pale skin and light freckles, a glossy black blunt jaw-length bob with heavy bangs and one clay-orange streak through the bangs, a small flat…

flap-cu-b · #1

flap-cu-b · #3

extreme wide shot of a vast windowless datacenter on a black plain at night, white steam plumes rising from its roof, a long row of loading bays lit white, one red aviation lamp, a small white electric SUV robotaxi…

datacenter-night · #4

full-length shot of a young Caucasian American woman with pale skin and light freckles, a glossy black blunt jaw-length bob with heavy bangs and one clay-orange streak through the bangs, a small flat clay-orange…

shoebox · #1

shoebox · #4

In the film (recovered by matching each shot of the finished cut against its candidates; the original pick records were lost) · The director's pick, from their storyboard review (CLODYSSEY only).

How it was made

The making-of, as it was published

The story

CLODYSSEY

How it was made

Midjourney

Seedance

Suno