CUL-DE-SAC

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  Girl's dream

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  Nature fights back

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  A mountain of trash

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  Advertising Trash Masks

Inspiration & Story

Inspired by the films of Lynne Ramsay, Roy Andersson and of course David Lynch, this tells the story about how we would deal with trash if we were left to dispose of it ourselves rather than sending it away. After a government mandate ends waste collection, a young Scottish narrator watches with deadpan wisdom as her city descends into a mounting rubbish apocalypse. Through hyperreal imagery – raining refuse, buried streets, neighbours feuding over garden dumping – everyday waste transforms into something both cosmic and absurd. Blending surreality with bleak humour, the film is an environmental fable seen through a child’s clear eyed gaze: a tender catastrophe about the systems we rely on and our place in the world

What it does

It makes us think about how much of our waste is collected and disposed of without us really knowing what happens to it, and forces us to confront the fact that we must be more careful and thoughtful with our home - both near and far.

How we built it

Via various platforms: Hailuo, LTX Studios (And Veo 3), Sora, Nano Banana for visuals; Eleven Labs & Hume for music, sfx, and voice. Edited myself on Premiere Pro.

Challenges we ran into

Getting the renders in the same tone, mood, era; getting sequential renderings of characters; loading trash bags into trucks was surprisingly difficult for AI to tackle!

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Putting it all together myself, and learning as I went.

What we learned

Working across platforms really helps, there was a lot of trial and error so it pays to get the prompts precise first; also arriving at the type of camera and film stock early on really helps the process.

What's next for CUL-DE-SAC

This is a one-off film but would love to make more films using all the tools available.

Built With

• elevenlabs
• hailuo
• hume
• ltx
• ltx-studios-(and-veo-3)
• nanobanana
• sora
• veo