Portrait Booth Nine
An interactive proof of concept traps a young archivist inside a photo booth that prints four incompatible versions of her next ten minutes.
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The story
Viewers choose which photograph Lena follows, changing the booth's questions, her apparent age, and the person waiting outside. The eleven-minute prototype ends when all branches produce the same blank fifth portrait, revealing the larger thriller's central mystery.
- Original title
- Portrait Booth Nine
- Country / region
- United States
- Genres
- Science fiction · Thriller
- Language
- English
- Year
- 2026
- Runtime
- 11:00
- Director
- Simone West
Creative process
Humans retain final control over script, casting intent, performance direction, shot selection, continuity, edit, sound, color, safety review, and release approval.
Completed on February 20, 2026 and publicly premiered on March 6, 2026; completed and released as of July 17, 2026. Human-authored brief and shot list; supervised current-model generation; manual edit; licensed sound and color finishing; legal, safety and technical quality control.
- AI participation (source-declared)
- 75%
- Creative method
- Interactive and procedural
- Format
- Proof of concept
- Resolution
- 4K
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37:1
- Frame rate
- 23.976
- Delivery format
- ProRes 422 HQ review master + review-only screener
- Subtitles
- English · French · German · Korean · Japanese · Thai