The Clock Dancer
A dancer from Marseille discovers that she can slow down time every time her feet miss the ground.
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The story
Aya rehearses in a theater slated for closure. When she jumps, the clocks in the neighborhood fall behind and the residents gain a few minutes to fix a mistake. Her last ballet could save the theater, but it would steal time from someone else.
- Original title
- La Danseuse des Horloges
- Country / region
- France · Belgium
- Genres
- Drama · Fantasy · Romance
- Language
- French
- Year
- 2027
- Runtime
- 86:00
- Director
- Maud Besson
Creative process
The director, editor, rights manager, French dialogue publisher and European festival delivery lead, and producer validate creative, legal, and cultural releases.
Narrative development, script polish, casting bible, and rights control led by the human team; Runway Gen-4.5 for main cinematic plates; Google Veo 3.1 Flow for physics, camera cutting, and motion passes; Runway Aleph 2.0 for shot transformations and continuity fixes; finishing with Blender, Houdini, DaVinci Resolve Studio 20, Pro Tools, French proofreading, and C2PA export.
- AI participation (source-declared)
- 75%
- Creative method
- Live action with AI
- Format
- Feature film
- Resolution
- 4K
- Aspect ratio
- 2.39:1
- Frame rate
- 24 fps
- Delivery format
- 4K DCP, ProRes 4444 XQ master, and validation H.265 screener.
- Subtitles
- English · Korean · Japanese · Thai · French · Spanish · German