Traffic Light Choir
A Hamburg traffic engineer discovers that the city's traffic light signals harmonize into a protest song every evening at rush hour.
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The story
Greta manages signals, traffic models, and public impatience. At 17:42, the pedestrian tones begin singing chords no system planned. The song moves passersby against the official rhythm and reveals a network of disabled activists using the city itself as an instrument.
- Original title
- Der Chor der Ampeln
- Country / region
- Germany · Austria
- Genres
- Documentary · Experimental
- Language
- German
- Year
- 2027
- Runtime
- 76:00
- Director
- Tessa König
Creative process
Direction, editing, rights verification, German dialogue editor, EU rights verifier, and production approve creative, legal, and cultural results.
Human-led story development, script polish, casting bible, and rights verification; Runway Gen-4.5 for key cinematic plates; Google Veo 3.1 Flow for physics, camera blocking, and alternate motion passes; Runway Aleph 2.0 for per-shot transformations and continuity corrections; finishing with Blender, Houdini, DaVinci Resolve Studio 20, Pro Tools, German-language review, 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 H.265 review screener.
- Subtitles
- English · Korean · Thai · French · Spanish · German · Arabic