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DRM—002 · 04:21
Speculative · AI Film
2025 · Speculative short · 04:21

SpeculativeAI

A speculative film about the night your subconscious goes public.

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⟶ Synopsis
DRM—002
Direction · Concept · Edit

Dream Stream imagines a near-future where streaming platforms can broadcast our dreams. A speculative short about consent, voyeurism, and the last thing we have left that's only ours — with one catch: if a dream goes unwatched for 30 days, the dreamer is trapped inside it forever.

⟶ Final film

Dream Stream — full film

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⟶ Behind the screen

A sneak peek inside Oculus

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⟶ Process
01 /

Started with a single line in a notes app at 3am: "what if Netflix could buy your dreams." Spent weeks figuring out whether that was a good idea or a stupid one. It was both.

02 /

Built the visual language around analogue glitch — VHS edges, static between thoughts. The dream itself is shot clean; everything around it degrades. The format is the point.

03 /

Used speculative-design tools (futures wheel, futures triangle) to map the world before writing a frame. Half the rules in the film never made it on screen — they're the reason the rest of it holds.

04 /

Created using Flow AI. The film blends surreal AI-generated visuals with narrative design and ethical speculation — exploring the tension between creative freedom and entertainment capitalism.

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For the final exhibit, I built a small future-cinema inside the Oculus — a fully imagined screening room, complete with seats, a screen, and the hush of a theatre. Putting the headset on doesn't just play the film; it drops you into the room where the film is being shown, somewhere in the year the story is set. The medium becomes the world.

⟶ Stills · Process · Gallery

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⟶ Credits

Direction
Mishti Agarwal
Concept
Mishti Agarwal
Year
2025
Format
Speculative short · 04:21
⟶ Process notes
Notion · public
Speculative AI Design — reflective log