In December 2022, a life-altering medical event fractured a long-standing career in investment banking and replaced it with the immediate, breathless reality of a struggling aorta. Born from poetry written in July 2025, this 12-minute experimental work uses a three-panel triptych structure to navigate the stages of post-traumatic recovery.
The work moves through three distinct phases: Mortality (the rupture of permanence), Trust (the clinical confrontation of the machine), and Humility (the eventual surrender to form). Staged within a stark, shadow-driven digital noir, the film avoids the “glossy” clichés of modern AI in favor of a “Technical Mono” aesthetic—where pulse becomes rhythm and breath becomes structure. This is not a documentation of a crisis, but its internal reconstruction.
Written & Directed by Adam J K N Mitchell (UK).