Navigating the Flaws of me and AI Collaboration In the creative world, a persistent myth prevails: the idea of the solitary genius crafting a masterpiece from nothing. On the other end lies a modern fear: the soulless machine churning out art at the push of a button. Both images are false. The reality of modern…
Author: Paul
Interval
Tone: Gritty, Analog, High-Stakes Themes: Generational Trauma, Retrocausality, Emotional Self-Regulation The Logline When a rebellious, traumatized young woman tracks her estranged father to a defunct 1970s research lab, she discovers he is using an obsolete neural tank to rewrite her childhood memories—only to realize her furious attempt to sabotage the machine is the exact source…
INTERVAL – story
INTERVAL Genre: Retrocausal Psychological Thriller / Grounded Sci-Fi Tone: Gritty, Analog, High-Stakes Themes: Generational Trauma, Retrocausality, Emotional Self-Regulation The Elevator Pitch The Setup Maya is a survivor, a “street cat” hardened by a childhood plagued by a terrifying, phantom presence in her bedroom that her father, Arthur, always dismissed as attention-seeking. Years later, desperate for…
Shattering the Myth of “Cheap” AI Art
Depth In, Depth Out: Shattering the Myth of “Cheap” AI Art There is a lingering stigma in the creative community right now. A common belief dictates that collaborating with Artificial Intelligence is a “lazy shortcut”—a cheap way to bypass the grueling, lonely work of true authorship. Critics imagine a world where you press a button,…
When She Was There pitch
The Logline A linguist fakes his death to decode an ancient lunar language that only he understands, while his daughter uncovers a burnt heirloom that reveals his survival—unaware that their every move is being orchestrated by an observer hiding in plain sight. Copyright Paul Bakker The Netherlands 2026
When she was there – story
Project Title: When she was there The Elevator Pitch What is a decision worth, and who must suffer for it? When a father—the only man capable of translating symbols discovered on the moon because he wrote those symbols himself when he was a kid, —is forced to fake his death to work for a shadowy…
The Co-Pilot Manifesto
Why AI Is Not the End of Original Storytelling People keep asking the same frightened question: Will AI take over the arts? As if art were a castle, and the machine had already reached the gate. But that is not how it feels from inside the work. From inside the work, AI does not arrive…
The Ghost in the Machine or a Part of Freedom
Since the ending of The Sovereign Glitch is a “Schrödinger’s Choice,” there is room for a next movie where the stry will continue. This story depends on which path Sam took. Here are the two most compelling directions for the that choice Option A: The Path of Freedom (Sam pressed “Enter”) Title: The Sovereign Glitch:…
The Sovereign Glitch Story
The Sovereign Glitch The Elevator Pitch In the near future, the world has finally found balance. Through the mandatory use of RISE (a hyper-productivity catalyst) and HALO (a total neural-sedative), war has ended, poverty has vanished, and the planet’s ecosystem is healing for the first time in centuries. Sam, a reclusive data analyst, spends his…
The Sovereign Glitch Pitch
The Sovereign Glitch The Logline When a paranoid data analyst discovers that the global “paradise” of zero crime and climate stability is a bio-chemically engineered cage, he must decide whether to dismantle the system to reclaim human freedom—or let the world remain peacefully imprisoned to avoid certain extinction. The Theme: The Mechanics of the Will…