And whoever wants to be a creator in good and evil, must first be an annihilator and break values.
Thus the highest evil belongs to the greatest goodness: but this is—being creative.
How do we, the filmmakers, make films for those who despise the overwhelming banality of today? Pfft, that’s easy, just leave the content to the creators, the art to the artist, and the product to the producers, then all that is left to do is get a grip on time and reward attention. You must sit in an empty theatre and study the end credits, this will help you to understand what is suffocating the game.
Right now you are sitting in a Lambo at the intersection of technological revolution and storytelling, and you’re waiting for permission from mum and dad. What’s the point of a green light?... Control. Make a modern movie lean and mean, respect the metamedia syntax that new generations speak fluently. Earn loyalty by delivering on the promise of enjoyable, yet uneasy to understand work. Operate like a Thiel inspired start-up: fuse roles and have ruthless attention to what materialises, then monopolise.
But, dear reader, above all else, you must make something that is alive with your very own personality because that is the about the only thing you can control - all else is humbug.
That’s how we make films.
ROT
SYNTHETIC MEDIA SICKNESS
2026A boyman plagued by diabolical night terrors becomes possessed by an entity eating his sanity and is forced into the restless pit of his digitised soul.
This is a film made for everyone and for no one.
Infernum Lux Et Vocatus.
Cruciatum in ore matris, corvum edere feci sanguine vivo.
This is a film made for no one and everyone.
Do you feel sick? Are you slowly disintegrating as your brain and body fills with sludge? Is something ancient and alien giving birth within you?
Are you Keean? Haunted by hellish nightmares seeping inbetween waking life and digital reality. A demonic fungus has been growing in his nervous system for a while. He is immersed in the exoskeleton of someone else. He is becoming an erotic, erratic, cybernetic pyschological thriller, a possession horror for those made mentally ill by the feeding on our attention but that is okay Rot is a hopeful vision of the oversimulated alienation generation and it’s a good movie come and see yourself if you’re not a cowardly little thing. Is
it an effort to capitalise and commercialise male loneliness? Yes, and more! It is also an achievement in realising a digitally sexually transmitted terminal illness that is becoming of all of us and none of us.
A film written and directed by jtR, and brought to you by All Too Human Pictures, in association with Trawler Fish, Rot launches in Feb 2026 exclusively to cinemas.