Marseille
Two strangers meet by chance in Marseille, share one perfect day, and let it go before it can become anything less than perfect.
A day that isn't supposed to matter, and matters anyway
A traveler arrives in Marseille alone and crosses paths with a local outside a café by the Old Port — the kind of collision that only happens once. What follows is a single day compressed into fragments: streets, food, rocks above the water, a hand held and let go. By golden hour they're standing on a train platform, saying goodbye without ever quite deciding to. Nothing dramatic happens. That's the point.
The Meeting → One Perfect Day → Goodbye
Directed to fight the AI look, not lean into it
Every part is written as handheld documentary, not polished animation: a 35mm-equivalent lens, shallow depth of field, whip pans that follow rather than predict, continuous autofocus hunting and lag, natural exposure drift, cutting lens flare. None of that is decorative — it's there specifically to defeat the too-smooth, too-perfect default look generative video tends toward. If it reads as shot by a friend with a camera, the direction did its job.
One consistent face, held across the whole film
Each character was locked to a single reference sheet before any generation started, so the same face carries through the meeting, the day, and the goodbye without drifting between shots.
