An Eggshell in Mallorca
The image I keep coming back to from Egg is the three of them around the egg talking under a tree. Harold cradles it in moss. Luce making a case, both paws up, her whole body in the argument. Harley off to the side, watching. None of them has moved, but all three have already decided, quietly, privately, differently, what the egg is for. That decision is made, and remade, and remade again across the day.
Egg, my seventh film, was named an Official Selection at the AIMA AI Movie Awards in Mallorca this week. Finalists are announced April 17th . This is the first festival to programme the film outside the one-day premiere showcase it played on Easter morning, and it is the first time a group of people whose job is watching films carefully will watch this one.
The film is four minutes. Harold, Luce, and Harley are three meerkats who agree on almost nothing, especially not the glowing egg half-buried outside their burrow. Harold names it. Luce circles it with hunger. Harley watches and waits. Throughout the day something shifts quietly inside each of them. By morning, only an empty shell remains. And what's left behind isn't an answer.
Building a needle-felted meerkat, or even a digitally generated meerkat with needle-felted textures, means you have to decide on things like faces. Harold's face carries the weight of carrying something he can't explain. Luce's face is for argument. Harley's is for watching what Luce does with the argument.
I have been asked, since the film went up, whether the egg is God. Doubt and faith. I have watched audiences land on that reading without being told where to look. A viewer of the film can arrive there. The director who wrote it cannot do that for you. I like that gap more than anything I could explain.
The film was made in Seedance 2.0, directed scene by scene, scored in Suno. Every frame was generated and then edited with intention. The tool is the medium. The three characters and one glowing object across a single day is the film.
Finalists are announced April 17.