
SpeculativeAI
A speculative film about the night your subconscious goes public.
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.
Dream Stream — full film
A sneak peek inside Oculus
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
7 images · click to expand⟶ Credits
- Direction
- Mishti Agarwal
- Concept
- Mishti Agarwal
- Year
- 2025
- Format
- Speculative short · 04:21