The Ice Machine Remembers Everyone
IXF-AIF-2026-VASDP6FFPU
The story
A refrigeration engineer discovers that an industrial ice machine is producing cubes containing fully formed faces from lives that never happened, and each melting face changes who her night crew remembers.
- Original title
- The Ice Machine Remembers Everyone
- Country / region
- United States
- Genres
- Science fiction · Horror · Thriller
- Language
- English
- Year
- 2026
- Runtime
- 111:00
- Director
- Sloane Mercer
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 March 28, 2026 and released on April 17, 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
- Live action with AI
- Format
- Feature film
- Resolution
- 4K
- Aspect ratio
- 2.39:1
- Frame rate
- 23.976
- Delivery format
- DCP 4K Scope + ProRes 422 HQ archival master
- Subtitles
- English · French · German · Korean · Japanese · Thai