Hybrid

a feature film.

Death is a beginning. Birth is endless.

In the high desert of Colorado, the world is collapsing. Fires glow on the horizon. Black helicopters pass overhead. The animals are dying, and those that aren't are fleeing.

Michelle is staying. She has one final task. But something has other plans for her. It interrupts her intended suicide, arriving in the unsettling form of a daughter she never had. It augers a new future, and teaches her to speak...

Ontological Shock Contact & Contagion Non-ordinary Cognition

The Language of Is

A nonhuman languge of deep interiority, where meaning shifts according to altitude and orientation. Draw a word. Flip it. Descend through its layers.

Altitude

Death is a beginning. Birth is endless.

Signal received.

Written & directed by Stuart Evan Davis
Produced by Siona van Dijk
Cinematography by Sophie Gohr

Preproduction

Fall 2026

Principal Photography

Early Spring 2027

Festival Launch

Winter 2027 / 2028

For audiences drawn to The Endless, Annihilation, and The Outrun

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