DE / fantasy · action · comedy
The Hail Mill Runs Backward
Three cloud mice must push eight frozen hailstones upward through a backward-running weather mill so they can return as warm rain over their dry garden.
INDEX · IXF-AIF-2026-8ZVF2ZG83HInformations du projet
Above the invented cloud garden hangs the hail mill Rika with four copper shovel arms and a glass spiral tube. Normally it hurls frozen grains downward; when the garden dries out, the little cloud mice Fenn, Tupi, and Loro turn the core around and guide exactly eight black hailstones against gravity. Each stage changes the size, sound, and memory of the grains, turning an old storm machine into a non-human irrigation layer whose rules and weather remain entirely synthetic and fictional.
- Director / creative team
- Hedi Brauner
- Creative mode
- synthetic_animation
- Tools declared
- Seedance 2.0, Veo 3.1, Runway Gen-4.5, DaVinci Resolve Studio 20.3.3, Pro Tools 2026.4.1
- Durée
- 78 min
- 01
Initiate
Define the work, the team and the rights.
- 02
Fund
Publish the mandate, allocation and terms.
- 03
Produce
Connect each spend to a deliverable.
- 04
Distribute
License assets and report receipts.
- 05
Buy back
Execute the published revenue policy.