Jacob Madden

In production · premieres Oct 16, 2026

Last Signal

A short film you talk to. A stranded astronaut's distress call reaches exactly one person, and what you say decides whether her crew comes home.

A FILM YOU TALK TOLastSignal10.16.26

Take the call

The first cut is playable. She can hear you.

Every shot, voice and ending is in, as stills with sound while the video renders. Three times she'll stop and ask what to do. Say it out loud, or type it. Answer like you mean it: how you talk to her matters as much as what you pick.

The empty control hut at the Atacama dish: consoles, a mug, a chair facing the speaker

WORK IN PROGRESS · FIRST CUT IN STILLS

Last Signal

You're on the night shift at a dead radio dish. Someone answers. Turn your sound on. When she asks you something, answer out loud.

ABOUT 6 MIN · USES YOUR MIC

Meet Ines

Flight engineer, 41, four hours of sleep.

Her character sheet: the same face, suit and patch from every angle, so 48 generated shots still add up to one person. Neutral, the closest she gets to a smile, and what scared looks like on someone who goes quiet.

Character sheet for Ines Varga: front, three-quarter, side and back views in a worn grey flight suit with tool belt and gloves, plus close-ups of her face looking neutral, faintly amused and worried

The map

Three times, the film stops and asks you what to do.

You answer out loud. Ines decides whether to trust you, and the ending follows how she feels about you, not which word you said.

The signalshots 1–9Seal it, orgo outside?Seallose the gardenOutsidepatch the hullARC's secretshots 14–21Hear ARC,or unplug it?ARC helpsJust us nowTalk to meburn or sendHomecomingThe SignalStaticYOU DECIDEYOU DECIDEYOU DECIDE

From the script

10. INT. PERIHELION HAB, SEC-01. HOLD.

Emergency light. Close on INES. She looks past the camera, at you.

INES

I can seal it and lose everything we've grown, or I go outside and patch it. ARC says seal. What would you do?

The film waits. Ines listens. She can interrupt.

ARC (V.O.)

Ines, greenhouse pressure at sixty-one percent.

How it works

  • 148 generated shots, three spoken decisions, three endings. Any one viewing plays about 35 of them.
  • 2The film pauses when Ines needs an answer. You reply out loud, and she can interrupt you back.
  • 3A character agent scores every exchange on trust and nerve. Those two numbers, not keywords, pick the ending.
  • 4The score is built from the radio itself: carrier tone, static, and data chirps, mixed live as the story branches.

Made with ChatGPT Images · Nano Banana Pro · Veo 3.1 · Kling · ElevenLabs Eleven v4 · GPT-Live-1 · Suno v5.5 · Claude Agent SDK

Tune in

The teaser is a radio. Find her.

Atacama dish0/5 found

Somewhere in this static, someone is calling for help.Drag the dial to tune in

401.050 MHz

Production log

  1. Oct 7Story locked: one astronaut, one ship's computer, one stranger on the radioDone
  2. Oct 7Script, 48-shot list, and the character brief Ines runs onDone
  3. Oct 7Radio teaser, playable on the homepageDone
  4. Oct 7Ines's face, wardrobe and voiceDone
  5. Oct 7First cut in stills: every shot, every voice, all three endings, and it listensDone
  6. Oct 12The stills start moving: every shot as videoNext
  7. Oct 14Live conversation wired into the playerNext
  8. Oct 16PremiereNext